VP, Global Data Centre Delivery

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up.

We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

Volta is building AI factories across Europe and North America at a scale and pace rarely seen in the market. Our first 133MW AI factory in Norway will deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems, with more than 1GW of contracted power pipeline behind it and further sites already progressing through preconstruction in the Nordics and the United States. The VP, Global DC Delivery will own how these sites are planned, built and handed over to operations, with accountability for cost, schedule, safety and quality across the global programme.

You will build and lead the delivery organisation across preconstruction, regional delivery, site project teams, the portfolio office and partner data centre deployments. Working closely with Volta's Design and Engineering and functional teams, you will create one delivery model that can scale across multiple countries and projects. We are looking for someone who has led hyperscale data centre delivery across multiple regions, managed major capital programmes and built the organisation, standards and playbook needed to deliver repeatedly at scale.

• Own the delivery of design and construction across Volta's AI factories in Europe and North America, from front end planning through preconstruction, construction, commissioning and handover to operations
• Build and lead the global organisation: a preconstruction programme with project managers in Europe and the United States, regional delivery leads with site project directors and their construction, engineering, logistics, environmental and commissioning teams, a portfolio office and a third party development lead
• Run preconstruction so every site reaches construction with a settled design basis, a credible budget and schedule, a permitting path and a contract structure that fits the site
• Set the capital delivery model for each project, including contracting strategy, procurement approach, schedule logic and where modular and prefabricated methods will speed delivery
• Be accountable for cost, schedule, safety and quality outcomes across the programme, with clear, regular reporting to the Chief Delivery Officer, the executive team and the board through the portfolio office
• Select, direct and hold to account design consultants, general contractors, modular suppliers and specialist partners on each project, and build the partner bench Volta will need as the programme grows
• Work through Volta's matrix, drawing design from the design and engineering function and project controls, estimating, contracts, turn up and commissioning, safety and procurement from the functional leads, so every project has one team and one plan
• Deliver both Volta's self build sites and its deployments in partner data centres, adapting the approach to each without lowering the standard
• Represent Volta with planning authorities, utilities, landlords, partners and investors on design, permitting and construction matters
• Establish the standards, playbooks and lessons learned that make each project faster and more predictable than the last

• Data centre experience is…