General Manager, Data Centers
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Domain Expert & Relationship Builder: 4+ years of experience in commercial construction (specifically mission-critical or data center builds), data center operations, infrastructure scaling, or manage
- Scaling Mindset & Extreme Bias for Action: You don't wait for permission or perfect data; you deliver results. You thrive in a high-pressure environment where the pace is fast, expectations are massiv
- Strategic & Curious: You think big-picture while staying fiercely grounded in data and execution. You are deeply comfortable with fast iteration, navigating complex enterprise requirements, and solvin
- Multi-disciplinary Executor: You have a proven track record of managing high-growth expansion, optimizing complex operations, and turning early momentum into sustainable, long-term market dominance. Y
Full description
Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.
Instawork is seeking a General Manager, Data Centers, to accelerate and scale our rapidly growing presence in the booming data center industry. Working closely with Instawork’s leadership team, this is a high-octane opportunity to drive strategy, capture market share, and optimize execution in one of the world's fastest-growing sectors.
You will be tasked with scaling the connection between our 10M+ flexible workers ("Pros") and the massive, continuous labor demands of data center builders, general contractors, operators, and hyperscalers. Your goal: parachute into high-impact expansion initiatives, optimize our go-to-market strategy, supercharge our supply and demand engines, and do absolutely whatever it takes to accelerate the marketplace flywheel in critical data center hubs.
What You’ll Do
- Scale the Playbook: Take our data center vertical from 1 to 10. You will drive operational excellence—whether that means streamlining complex site-access and safety protocols, standardizing onboarding for massive construction build-outs and hardware deployments, or expanding our footprint in key markets—until the vertical is a massive, self-sustaining engine.
- Strategic Execution & Partnership Expansion: Refine and implement Instawork’s growth strategy for the data center space. Cultivate, grow, and own relationships with top-tier general contractors, data center operators, colocation providers, and infrastructure tech giants, turning initial pilots into enterprise-wide deployments.
- Market & Data Needs Analysis: Deeply understand the unique labor, compliance, and safety requirements of both active construction sites and live data center environments. Leverage data to anticipate partner pain points and ensure Instawork’s tech and operations can seamlessly support their massive, fluctuating workforce needs throughout the entire facility lifecycle.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to move aggressively and iterate on the fly. You will turn operational friction into scalable, automated processes and act as an internal driver of cross-functional alignment to unblock growth.
- Thought Leadership & Evangelism: Represent Instawork externally as a thought leader in the data center workforce space. Regularly present progress, growth metrics, and strategic recommendations to Instawork's executive leadership, shaping the company’s long-term vision for infrastructure support.