cerebras - Director of Capacity Planning & Delivery

Headquarters/Sunnyvale Office1w ago

In Office Director NA Logistics Real Estate Director of Human Resources Urban Planner Program Management Reporting Governance

Requirements

• 7–10 years in technical program management, infrastructure delivery, or related fields • 5+ years leading teams and large-scale program portfolios • Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or mission-critical programs • Strong understanding of capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure delivery lifecycle • Experience with capital planning, budgeting, and cost optimization • Strong analytical and systems thinking skills with a data-driven approach • Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and senior leadership • Excellent communication and executive presentation skills • You will build the operating system for how the organization plans, validates, and delivers infrastructure capacity at scale. Your work will shape time-to-capacity, capital efficiency, customer readiness, and the company’s ability to grow with speed and discipline.

Responsibilities

• Own the global capacity planning system, aligning demand forecasts with credible supply, build roadmaps, and delivery commitments • Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure capacity across colocation, build-to-suit, retrofit, and owned-build programs • Turn long-range demand into executable, multi-year programs with clear owners, • milestones, risks, and decision points • Build planning, tracking, and governance mechanisms that separate real capacity from • optimistic assumptions and keep delivery on track • Establish metrics for capacity health, delivery predictability, schedule confidence, and • capital efficiency • Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, real estate, construction, supply chain, networking, and operations • Use data-driven modeling and scenario analysis to guide investment decisions, expose • constraints, and inform trade-offs • Manage risks, constraints, and dependencies across programs and regions, escalating early when power, schedule, supply chain, or execution assumptions change • Provide clear executive-level reporting on delivery status, capacity outlook, risks, and trade-offs • Build and lead a high-performing TPM team with clear ownership and accountability

Benefits

• People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras: • 1. Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU. • 2. Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research. • 3. Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world. • 4. Enjoy job stability with startup vitality. • 5. Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs. • Find out more about what it's like to work at Cerebras here https://www.cerebras.ai/join-us!