General Manager, Data Center (New Build)

We are seeking a General Manager, Data Center to lead the organizational build-out, hardware deployment, operational readiness, and ongoing performance of our gigawatt-scale data center campus in Independence, Missouri.

This is an on-site leadership role with responsibility for the Independence campus. You will have autonomy to design the campus organization, select your leadership team, define reporting lines, and establish the operating model within agreed budgets and company standards.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and building the campus organization, including functional leadership, building and shift coverage, reporting lines, and clear decision authority.
• Hiring, leading, and developing directors, data center managers, and operations teams.
• Owning the phased workforce plan, aligning recruitment, training, contractor support, and leadership coverage with hardware deployment, acceptance testing, and production milestones.
• Establishing performance expectations, consistent technical competency standards, and succession plans that support reliable campus operations and sustained performance.
• Owning the integrated operational readiness plan connecting facility completion and handover milestones, equipment delivery, hardware installation, network and storage integration, staffing, and customer service readiness.
• Coordinating with construction and facilities teams to verify power, cooling, and space readiness before deployment.
• Defining operational acceptance criteria for the campus and deployed infrastructure.
• Ensuring trained teams, tested procedures, critical spares, asset records, monitoring, and vendor support are in place before production operations begin.
• Coordinating GPU, server, network fabric, storage, and cloud readiness with technical owners.
• Sequencing hardware installation, integration, and production changes to protect live environments as additional compute capacity comes online.
• Owning end-to-end campus operations across critical facilities and IT infrastructure, delivering agreed uptime, performance, and service levels.
• Establishing 24/7 coverage, maintenance governance, change control, incident command, root-cause analysis, and business continuity practices.
• Ensuring clear responsibility across power, liquid cooling, controls, hardware, networking, and cloud interfaces.
• Using monitoring, automation, and performance reporting to improve deployment throughput, repair turnaround, reliability, and operating efficiency.
• Owning campus operating budgets, workforce costs, vendor expenditure, and forecasts within delegated authority.
• Aligning power, cooling, rack space, equipment, and staffing capacity with deployment plans.
• Establishing asset inventory, receiving, logistics, critical spares, repair, warranty-return, and secure disposition processes.
• Tracking budget variance, rework, delayed capacity, and operational losses.
• Serving as the primary operational interface with utilities, infrastructure providers, equipment manufacturers, vendors, and service partners.
• Coordinating with City of Independence departments on site readiness, permitting and inspections, utility interfaces, emergency preparedness, and ongoing operational matters.
• Holding providers accountable for safety, quality, delivery milestones, response times, and contractual service performance.
• Ensuring safety, environmental, physical security, and applicable compliance requirements are implemented.
• Providing executive visibility into launch progress, workforce readiness, operating performance, financial forecasts, and risks requiring decisions.
• Developing repeatable deployment standards, staffing models, acceptance practices, and operating procedures that support the campus as compute capacity scales.
• Building leadership succession and delegation practices that sustain reliable operations and develop future infrastructure leaders.
• Sharing lessons and operational improvements with the broader Nebius infrastructure organization.

We expect you to have:

• 10+ years of experience in data center, cloud infrastructure, or comparable mission-critical operations.
• A track record of building and scaling organizations and leading managers across multiple technical and operational functions.
• Experience leading hardware deployment, infrastructure integration, operational acceptance, or major compute capacity expansion into production service.
• Strong understanding of critical facilities, including power and cooling.
• Leadership experience across compute, networking, storage, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ownership of operating budgets, workforce planning, vendor performance, and executive reporting.
• Experience leading incident response, change management, risk reduction, and service improvement in high-availability environments.
• The ability to exercise sound judgment, make decisions with incomplete information, address underperformance directly, and align stakeholders around clear outcomes.
• Ability to work on site in Independence, Missouri.

Nice to have:

• Experience in hyperscale, AI, GPU, or high-performance computing environments.
• Experience with liquid-cooled environments and the operational interfaces between cooling systems, GPU platforms, and network fabrics.
• Experience managing multiple campuses or regional operations.
• Experience building operating organizations and establishing processes during initial hardware deployment and the transition into production service.
• Experience using infrastructure automation, telemetry, and reliability data to improve capacity delivery and operating performance.

Key employee benefits:

• Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
• Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
• Disability and life insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage.