blacksmith - Head of Capacity

• Own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter infrastructure. • Build forecasting models for infrastructure demand and growth. • Partner with engineering to understand future workload requirements. • Develop deployment plans across regions and datacenter partners. • Manage relationships with hardware vendors, datacenter providers, and infrastructure suppliers. • Lead hardware procurement and infrastructure expansion efforts. • Evaluate new suppliers, hardware platforms, and deployment opportunities. • Track utilization and ensure infrastructure investments are deployed efficiently. • Build processes and systems that allow Blacksmith to scale from thousands of servers to many times that number. • You Are a Good Fit If You • Have experience operating large-scale infrastructure, cloud, hosting, networking, or datacenter environments. • Have experience with capacity planning, forecasting, or infrastructure operations. • Can balance long-term planning with day-to-day operational realities. • Are highly analytical and comfortable making decisions under uncertainty. • Have strong vendor management and negotiation skills. • Can work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders. • Enjoy solving operational problems at scale. • Want to work closely with founders on company-critical infrastructure decisions. • Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in SF/NYC. • Experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, hosting company, CDN, or infrastructure startup. • Experience procuring servers, networking equipment, storage, or datacenter capacity. • Experience managing infrastructure supply chains. • Experience with power planning, datacenter operations, or colocation providers. • Experience scaling infrastructure through periods of hypergrowth. • What Success Looks Like • Within your first year: • Blacksmith has a clear, data-driven capacity planning process. • Infrastructure growth is forecasted quarters ahead of demand. • Hardware procurement and deployment timelines are predictable. • Vendor and datacenter relationships are strong and scalable. • Leadership has visibility into future capacity constraints before they become operational issues. • Blacksmith can confidently scale infrastructure without becoming constrained by supply, deployment timelines, or planning failures.