Senior Teknisk Programchef, Data Center Expansion - Verda - Distans - Globalt

At Verda, we are building a fully featured European AI cloud, covering everything needed to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale. We are a full-stack AI infrastructure company, meaning we design, operate, and optimize the compute powering modern AI workloads across training and inference. Our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy, helping build a more sustainable AI ecosystem. Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished. You will own the program that turns a new site or expansion from empty space into live, operational capacity. You will coordinate every team involved and streamline the whole path, from fit-out, through hardware deployment, to a clean handover to operations, so each site comes online faster and more predictably than the last. Build and own the master schedule and critical path across every parallel workstream: site fit-out, electrical and thermal build, structured cabling and fiber plant, hardware deployment (rack-and-stack, InfiniBand and Ethernet fabric, liquid-cooled Blackwell and Rubin systems), commissioning, and operational handover. Coordinate the full cast turning a plan into capacity: Architecture, Electrical, Thermal, Structural, Hardware, Networking, Operations, and Procurement, along with external contractors and OEM partners (including Supermicro). Keep dependencies visible, hand-offs clean, and decisions moving so no workstream waits on another longer than it has to. Manage risk, budget tracking, and reporting across the program: RAID logs, stage-gates, and the escalations that keep a slip from becoming a stall, always driving toward time-to-live. Run the handover to operations: acceptance criteria, punch lists, and documentation, so the Operations team inherits a site that is genuinely ready to run, not one still being finished around them. Turn each build into a repeatable playbook, so the sequencing, dependencies, and hand-offs you get right once become the default for every expansion that follows. Representative projects: drive a new-market site from lease and fit-out to first racks online and handed over to operations, on schedule; build the master program plan that sequences fit-out, deployment, commissioning, and handover across every team; stand up the expansion playbook so the next site launches faster than the last; own the operational handover so operations inherits a site that is truly ready. Proven technical program management of complex, multi-team infrastructure builds in data center, construction, telecom, or large-scale IT deployment. Ability to build and own a real critical-path schedule across many parallel workstreams, and hold every team to it. Fluency coordinating across engineering, construction and fit-out, hardware deployment, networking, and operations teams. Understanding of the data center build lifecycle (fit-out, power and cooling commissioning, structured cabling, GPU/HPC hardware deployment, and operational handover), enough to be credible, with the specialist engineering owned by the respective teams. Strong risk, dependency, and stakeholder management: RAID logs, stage-gates, and clear escalation. Experience running vendor and contractor relationships against schedule and scope. Track record standardizing a repeatable delivery process across multiple projects or sites. Bias toward speed and ownership, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and driving them to a deployed result. Work mode: Hybrid, office (Helsinki, Finland or London, UK) or remote. Travel: Significant travel to sites during fit-out and deployment phases. Employment type: Full-time and permanent.