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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Technical Program Manager - **Company:** CRUX AI LLC - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Spreadsheets, Cloud Computing, Data Centers - **Published:** September 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e56450177cd1c07c ## About the Role * 8+ years running large-scale technical or infrastructure programs, with direct experience building program process from scratch rather than operating inside an existing PMO. * Demonstrated fluency translating between Finance and Infrastructure/Operations - you've built the artifacts (models, trackers, gates) that let both sides trust the same numbers. * Cloud, data center, or other capital-intensive infrastructure background; comfortable with multi-year, multi-vendor delivery timelines. Attributes * You build the system that makes the next status meeting boring, through discipline, not heroics - you don't paper over a conflict between Finance and Ops, you surface it and help resolve it. * You are the honest broker between functions - you hold Finance and Ops to the same numbers and say so when they don't match. Mindset * High tolerance for ambiguity. You design structure where none exists yet, rather than waiting for one to arrive. * AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents - or committed to becoming so quickly - and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process. Nice to have (preferred, not required) * Experience at a neocloud or hyperscaler (CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft) in a technical program management role spanning Finance and Infrastructure. * Exposure to capex/commitment tracking or prepay-style capacity commercial structures. * Familiarity with Agile or equivalent program management methodology applied to physical infrastructure delivery, not just software. * Formal PMP or equivalent program management credential. ## Description You will own the translation layer between Crux's Finance function and its infrastructure delivery pipeline. Reporting to, Crux's Chief Program Manager, you will run the program discipline that keeps a multi-billion-dollar build pipeline legible to Finance, Development, and Operations at once: translating capacity plans, cost and margin models, and deal terms into a common, defensible view that leadership can act on without relitigating every project from scratch. This is a process-from-scratch seat - there is no inherited PMO playbook to run, only the mandate to build one, fast, without adding headcount to compensate for missing rigor. In this role, you will: * Own the program cadence connecting Finance, Development, and Operations on every active data center and capacity commitment - one integrated view of cost, schedule, and deal status, not three disconnected ones. * Translate capacity plan of record and cost/margin model of record inputs into Finance-ready outputs, and translate Finance's constraints back into terms Development and Operations can execute against. * Build and run the intake, review, and escalation gates for the active project portfolio, so nothing material moves without the right functions weighing in at the right stage. * Track commitments made in program reviews to closure - flag deviations, at-risk milestones, and sequencing conflicts before they become delays, not after. * Partner directly with Finance's financial modeling team to ensure their models are fed by current, reconciled program data rather than stale inputs. * Build the reporting and status mechanisms that let leadership see risk early - a program that surfaces its own bad news is the goal, not the exception. * Default to AI-agentic workflows for status tracking, reconciliation, and reporting - this function does not scale by adding coordinators. SIGNALS OF SUCCESS After 60 days in this role: * Program cadence and escalation gates are stood up and running across at least one active workstream. * First integrated Finance/Development/Operations status view is in use, replacing ad hoc updates. After 6 months: * Commitments-to-closure tracking is live across the full active portfolio, with zero silently-dropped action items. * Finance is running its models off your reconciled data, not parallel spreadsheets. 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