Senior Director, Project Controls

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

The Senior Director of Project Controls is accountable for global and regional cost, estimating, schedule, risk, and change management across massive capital programs. This leader safeguards margins, validates baselines, and prevents costly delays in mission-critical hyperscale or enterprise data center builds.

We are seeking a strategic and analytical Senior Director of Project Controls to own integrated cost, estimating, scheduling, and risk management across our expanding portfolio. Operating as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, you will lead the Project Controls Center of Excellence, ensuring enterprise governance from early planning through execution and turnover.

Role Overview

Core Mandate: Establish enterprise-wide governance, reporting rhythms, and performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure data center portfolios are delivered on time and within budget.

Key Focus: Bridging field execution with executive/portfolio leadership by acting as an early warning system for cost variances and schedule logic issues.

What You'll Do

Program Strategy & Governance

• Establish a global Project Controls Center of Excellence, defining uniform methodologies, tools, and data governance.

• Govern cost and estimating management framework, ensuring the establishment of validated Project and Portfolio baselines, cost targets and delivery within budget.

• Govern the change management framework, ensuring all scope variations and change orders trace through comprehensive approval workflows.

• Oversee the development of integrated schedules, baselines, and resource allocation models from concept through commissioning and turnover.