Head of Data Center Operations, Perimeter Compute

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⚙️ Operations

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Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

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Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Montauk Capital is a venture investment and operating firm founded in 2023 that builds and invests across the 'Electron Economy'—companies at the intersection of electrification, infrastructure, AI, Web3, fintech, and sustainability. Montauk partners with founders to create software-driven solutions focused on AI infrastructure, logistics and industrial efficiency, energy and resiliency (smart buildings, energy systems), marketplaces and financial/insurance innovations, and data center and power infrastructure. Their portfolio includes parametric climate insurance, AI energy procurement tools, Web3 drone data platforms, novel data center infrastructure, and an electricity-futures-backed stablecoin. The team combines investment, operational, and sector experience in energy, climate tech, infrastructure, and venture-backed scaling.

📋 Description

• Translate site requirements into detailed launch plans covering power, cooling, connectivity, physical security, equipment installation, testing, commissioning, and handoff • Lead site activation from construction and fit-out through commissioning, production launch, and steady-state operation • Define contract workforce models for each market, including staffing levels, scopes of work, training, escalation paths, and performance expectations • Select, onboard, and manage outsourced operators, field-service providers, maintenance partners, and other critical vendors • Create and maintain operating procedures, runbooks, preventive-maintenance programs, incident-response processes, and site-level documentation • Establish operational KPIs and reporting for availability, safety, maintenance, capacity, incident response, and vendor performance • Coordinate with infrastructure engineering, networking, real estate, construction, and commercial teams to resolve launch and operating risks • Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for site-level failures, turning lessons learned into repeatable network-wide improvements • Build and lead a distributed organization of direct hires and contract labor capable of operating multiple sites and metro launches simultaneously • Build and lead a distributed customer support organization serving customers across the fleet • Work directly with the real estate team to transition qualified real-estate locations into deployment-ready facilities • Own deployment and ongoing support of a rapidly expanding network of distributed AI infrastructure sites

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing operations across at least three data centers simultaneously • Strong operational background in data centers, colocation, neo-cloud infrastructure, hyperscale environments, or other mission-critical facilities • Demonstrated experience bringing new data center capacity online, including site readiness, commissioning, operational handoff, and steady-state support • Working knowledge of electrical distribution, backup power, cooling, network connectivity, fire and life safety, and physical security • Experience managing third-party operators, contractors, field-service teams, maintenance providers, and equipment vendors against clear service expectations • Ability to build operating procedures, maintenance standards, documentation, metrics, and escalation processes from scratch • Track record of managing incidents, diagnosing operational failures, and improving reliability across multiple facilities • Ability to lead through influence initially and build a high-performing distributed team as the company scales • Willingness and ability to travel frequently for new deployments, site launches, vendor oversight, and critical incidents • Experience operating GPU clusters, AI infrastructure, high-density compute, HPC environments, or liquid-cooled systems (nice to have) • Background at a neo-cloud provider, colocation operator, hyperscaler data center organization, or rapidly scaling digital-infrastructure platform (nice to have) • Experience launching operations in multiple North American metros or building an international data center operating model (nice to have) • Customer-facing experience supporting enterprise infrastructure deployments, service reviews, or SLA commitments (nice to have) • Experience managing a hybrid workforce of internal employees, contractors, and outsourced site operators (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Compensation + Equity • Meaningful ownership in the platform you help build • Studio Support: Leverage Montauk Capital’s resources, network, and operating expertise during critical early stages • Opportunity to build the operations function for a new category of distributed AI infrastructure • High-impact leadership ownership • Opportunity to define operations across multiple metros and international markets

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