Director of Project Delivery, Data Centers

We're building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.

When people finance GPU clusters, the datacenters housing them, and the infrastructure powering them, they need "offtake" - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.

Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky, since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders don't want to take on the risk that cluster developers can't repay their loan, and cluster developers really don't want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result, risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.

If you don't mitigate this customer risk, there's a bubble. This isn't SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference, but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase, it's game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market?

Otherwise, as AI scales, compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian can't realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.

So that's what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.

About the Role:

SF Compute’s Development Team is actively deploying large GPU clusters into colocation facilities and greenfield builds. The Director of Project Delivery will oversee the project management and construction management of new cluster deployments.

This role will be an integral part of project delivery starting with the preconstruction phase through active construction, commissioning, and turnover to end users. This role is based at SF Compute’s headquarters in San Francisco with some travel required. All applicants are required to submit a portfolio of prior data center projects.

About You:

• You have 8 years of experience at a general contractor, specialty trades group, or owner’s rep focused on the end-to-end delivery of data center projects
• You hold a bachelor’s degree in construction management or engineering, or equivalent experience
• You are knowledgeable and experienced with means and methods of hyperscale project delivery and respective trades including MEP and CSA groups
• You are experienced with the full project lifecycle including areas of:
• Preconstruction:
• Resource planning, scheduling, estimating and buyout process with subcontractors and vendors, OFCI coordination, job site mobilization
• Construction:
• Managing RFIs and Submittals, managing trades coordination and work breakdown structures, project schedule updates, health and safety programs, creating project progress reports
• Commissioning and Turnover:
• CX programming from L1 through L5, vendor coordination, LOTO and safety principles, project closeout
• You are experienced with project management software including:
• Procore, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Bluebeam Revu, BuildingConnected, DESTINI, Microsoft Office and Google Suite applications
• You excel at client and vendor communication and relationship management, and collaborate with key stakeholders to address problems and proactively determine solutions to keep the project moving forward
• You have lead and managed an internal team of direct reports, fostering team culture and employee satisfaction under your direct purview
  
  

Some Nice to Haves:

• You hold a valid PMP certification or similar
• You hold a valid OSHA30 certification or greater
• You hold NFPA70E certification or similar
  
  

Benefits

Generous equity grant

Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Visa Sponsorships

Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

Retirement matching

We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

Medical, dental & vision

We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

Time off

We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10 observed holidays

Parental leave

We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

Daily lunch

We cover lunch daily for employees

Unlimited office book budget

You can buy as many books for the office as you want

The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any reason, please reach out to us at hiring@sfcompute.com

Compensation Range: $250K - $350K