Technical Program Manager
Verda is building the lead European AI hyperscaler with 100% renewable energy. At Verda, you will build the next generation hyperscaler. We are at a stage where you will have the chance to build foundational services and features that will fuel Verda's future. At your best, you thrive in a growth environment and you are able to take responsibility and deliver projects end to end. You can unblock technical decisions and have experience aligning stakeholders. You enjoy filling in the gaps when there is ambiguity and driving highly technical products.
We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!
Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.
About the role
We're looking for a Technical Program Manager to run the cross-team programs that bring new data centres and infrastructure changes to life. Verda is opening new regions across Europe, the US and Asia, and every one of them depends on several teams landing their part in the right order: data-centre operations, networking, storage, SRE, platform and cloud.
You'll own the plan that connects them. You'll turn a signed site and a customer date into a sequenced, tracked program, surface the dependencies and risks early, and make sure the date we give a customer is one the teams can meet.
Your responsibilities
Run new-region turn-ups end to end, from hardware handover to customer-ready, across DC ops, network, storage, SRE, platform and cloud
Build and maintain one plan per program: milestones, owners, dependencies and critical path, kept in Linear rather than in Slack threads
Turn deployment-plan dates (hardware installed, first token, customer RFS) into commitments each team has agreed to, and flag early when a date is at risk
Make sure every workstream has a named owner; chase the gaps nobody has picked up
Run fleet-wide infrastructure changes that touch many teams, for example OS version alignment, network-stack updates and maintenance windows
Own stakeholder communication for those programs: status updates, maintenance notices and customer-facing dates via Sales and Clusters
Keep a program risk register and drive decisions to closure with the people who own them
Run post-mortems after each turn-up and feed the lessons into the next site's checklist.
Collaborate with the Engineering leads, focusing on maturing automation, process and tooling.
Your key competencies
Can hold a complex, multi-team plan in your head and on paper, and spot the critical path
Influences without authority; engineers trust you because you understand the work
Clear, brief written communication for engineers, leadership and customers
Comfortable with ambiguity and fast change; you bring structure without slowing teams down
Data-led: you track progress by evidence, not by status colours
Calm under pressure when dates and customers are on the line
Required Experience
5+ years as a TPM or technical project lead on infrastructure, data-centre or cloud programs
Technical grounding in servers, Linux, networking and storage, enough to follow an engineering discussion and challenge a plan
Delivered programs spanning several engineering teams and external vendors
Experience with engineering tooling such as Linear or Jira, and with written planning and decision records
Preferred Experience
Data-centre build-outs or region launches at a cloud or GPU provider
GPU / HPC infrastructure, InfiniBand, bare-metal provisioning or hardware lifecycle
Working across time zones (Europe and US)
SRE or infrastructure engineering background
Why Verda
Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.
An opportunity to make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.
Position Details:
Department: Systems SRE
Location: EMEA, Helsinki or London
Work arrangement: Hybrid if at the office (3 days/week on-site)
Employment type: Full-time, permanent
What's next
We’re building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There’s no artificial deadline, but when we find who we’re looking for, we move.
If this sounds like your next move, apply now.
Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don’t accept applications sent by email nor through agencies.
- Location
- Helsinki
About Verda
Verda is a technology company building the next generation of cloud infrastructure for AI – compute that's instant, on-demand and at scale. Headquartered in Helsinki, the company operates globally across Europe, the US and Asia. Verda employs over 250 people from over 40 nationalities and has raised over $450M in total funding from investors including Emergence Capital, MUFG Innovation Partners, Supermicro, 6 Degrees Capital (6DC), Lifeline Ventures, byFounders, J12 Ventures, Skaala, Varma and Tesi, alongside leading financial institutions.