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Senior Manager, Data Center Strategy & Compute Supply
Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Role: As Together AI’s first Data Center Strategy hire, you’ll sit at the intersection of infrastructure, finance, and product - owning how and where we scale the physical backbone of our AI cloud. You’ll evaluate, model, and execute strategy across GPU supply, data center sites, and vendor partnerships to ensure Together AI has the right capacity, at the right cost, in the right regions. This role blends technical understanding of data center design (power, cooling, networking) with strategic planning, financial analysis, and commercial negotiation.
You’ll help decide what we build, where we build, and who we build it with, shaping the economics and resilience of Together’s global AI infrastructure footprint.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute Together’s global data center strategy, including site evaluation, capacity expansion, and vendor diversification
- Lead commercial and technical evaluations for colocation, power, and network vendors, tracking delivery schedules, SLAs, uptime, and cost performance
- Run and negotiate RFPs for new data center capacity or retrofits, ensuring optimal balance of cost, risk, and scalability
- Maintain a live compute and facility planning model that integrates supply availability, demand forecasts, and GPU generation roadmaps (e.g., H100 → B200 → GB200 → B300 → GB300)
- Partner cross-functionally with Infra, Product, GTM, and Finance to tie infrastructure investment decisions to product, demand, and R&D needs
- Build vendor intelligence and benchmarking frameworks for colocation and power providers, and, where relevant, key hardware partners, tracking contract performance, delivery risk, uptime history, and total cost trends across regions.
- Model and recommend own vs. lease vs. hybrid structures in partnership with Strategic Finance and Infra Engineering
- Support sovereign and large-scale customer projects with custom infrastructure design
Requirements
- 5–8 years’ experience in data center strategy, infrastructure planning, or cloud capacity management at a hyperscaler, AI infra company, or large colocation provider
- Strong grasp of data center design fundamentals: rack density, liquid cooling, power envelopes, redundancy tiers, and networking architectures
- Experience with GPU supply chains and compute economics, including OEM financing, utilization modeling, and contract structures
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, finance, and legal to evaluate trade-offs and close complex infrastructure deals
- Solid understanding of financial concepts (e.g., TCO, ROI, lease vs. own dynamics, and cost drivers across power and colocation)
- Exceptional written and verbal communication—able to translate technical infrastructure decisions into business and financial outcomes
Nice to Have:
- Background in hyperscale or sovereign AI projects
- Experience structuring hybrid ownership models (own/lease/Ci-MaaS)
- Familiarity with power markets, energy procurement, and behind-the-meter strategies
- Prior exposure to site selection and RFP processes for colocation builds
About Together AI
Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of researchers in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure.
Compensation
We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $150,000 - $200,000 equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
Equal Opportunity
Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. Please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy
Salary : $150,000 - $200,000