Director of Technical Program Management, Logical Deployment

Nscale, San Francisco +1

The role

As Director of Logical Deployment, you own everything that turns powered racks into a working, validated, customer-ready cluster. Once hardware is energized, you lead the network and software bring-up that makes it compute. That covers asset and inventory data, bootstrap connectivity, fabric deployment, control plane and fleet bring-up, GPU enrollment, acceptance validation, and handoff to ongoing operations.

You will turn a complex chain of engineering dependencies into a predictable sequence the business can commit to, and hold engineering, networking and partner teams to it.

What you will do

Every active cluster has one integrated logical schedule, owned by a named lead and reviewed weekly.
Logical milestones hit their committed dates, or slips are flagged at least two weeks ahead with a recovery plan.

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Director of Technical Program Management, Logical Deployment

Nscale, San Francisco +1

Posted pay

$290K–$350K

a year

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This base pay is above the median for director-level product management jobs in the Bay Area.

Median: $273K a year
Other jobs in the group: 136

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Location: San Francisco +1
Work type: Not given
Level: Director+, manager
Experience: 12+ years
Posted: 10 days ago
Last check: 23 min ago
Job type: Product management

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The role

You will turn a complex chain of engineering dependencies into a predictable sequence the business can commit to, and hold engineering, networking and partner teams to it.

What you will do

Every active cluster has one integrated logical schedule, owned by a named lead and reviewed weekly.
Logical milestones hit their committed dates, or slips are flagged at least two weeks ahead with a recovery plan.

What you need

12+ years in hyperscale infrastructure, cloud platforms or large-scale HPC delivery, including 5+ years leading teams.
Direct experience delivering large GPU or HPC clusters, from network and platform bring-up through validation and customer acceptance.
Strong working knowledge of data center networking, including front-end and back-end fabrics, InfiniBand or RoCE, and out-of-band and management networks.
Strong working knowledge of infrastructure software, including provisioning, control planes, fleet management and asset systems such as NetBox.
A track record of driving engineering teams you don’t directly manage to firm commitments.
Strength in building integrated schedules and critical paths across many dependencies, and in recovering them when they slip.
Clear, concise executive communication, both in writing and in the room, with honest forecasts.
Ability to travel about 50% of the time, primarily to data center sites.

How you lead

This is a Director-level role. We are looking for a leader who owns outcomes rather than one who reports on them.

Decisive: You call the real date, even when it’s unpopular, and pair it with a recovery plan. You make calls on incomplete information and stand behind them.
Assertive with partners: You hold engineering, networking and partner teams to their commitments. When a dependency slips, you escalate early, directly and with evidence.
Accountable: You own the outcome for every cluster in your scope. Rather than “waiting on engineering,” you explain what you are doing about it.
Steady under pressure: You bring order to a failing bring-up and help your team think clearly when schedules collapse.
Credible with executives: You brief SVPs and customers with a clear, honest position: what’s true, what’s at risk, and what you need from them.
A builder of leaders: You hire strong engineers and program managers, give them real ownership, and grow them into leaders.
Technically deep: You can read a fabric design, a bring-up log or a validation report and know where the problem is. Status reports alone are not enough.

Director of Technical Program Management, Logical Deployment

The role

What you will do

Director of Technical Program Management, Logical Deployment

The role

What you will do

What you need

Nice to have

.About Nscale and the Deployment PMO

Own logical bring-up

Deliver the network fabric

Validate and hand off

Lead people and build the operating model

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