Lead, Turn-up Delivery – EMEA

About Volta

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.

The role

As Lead, Turn-up Delivery – EMEA, you will drive the execution and technical delivery that takes Volta's EMEA infrastructure from delivery complete to live capacity. You will lead the turn-up workflow across every EMEA site, from facility and connectivity readiness through activation to service release.

This is a senior individual contributor execution role. Reporting to the Senior Director, Global Network Connectivity Delivery, you will be accountable for driving the EMEA turn-up pipeline, accelerating capacity activation, and enforcing technical quality controls for safe releases.

What you will do

Technical execution and workflow leadership

• Lead turn-up execution across multiple concurrent EMEA sites.

• Own the turn-up workflow end to end: prerequisites, ownership, evidence, approval points and handoffs.

• Own the EMEA turn-up pipeline and coordinate activation windows across delivery, engineering and operations.

Release and escalation

• Drive blockers to resolution and escalate risks to connectivity and delivery leadership.

• Make sure technical authorities make acceptance decisions and that approvals and exceptions are recorded.

• Report turn-up performance, ageing blockers and release confidence to leadership.

Improvement

• Collaborate with Platform and Strategic Operations to automate the workflow and cut turn-up lead time.

What we are looking for

• 8+ years of experience leading network activation, infrastructure turn-up or service transition in data centres or telecoms, with a proven ability to deliver high-volume deployments while consistently hitting performance goals.

• Proven hands-on experience leading turn-up execution across multiple sites in EMEA.

• Understanding of facility, connectivity and compute readiness dependencies.

• A track record improving activation lead times across a portfolio.

• Strong facilitation and escalation skills with senior technical and operational leaders.

Nice to have

• Hyperscale, GPU or AI infrastructure turn-up.

• Workflow automation, service management or deployment orchestration tools.

• Previous People Manager experience

What We Offer

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.
As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary

• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success

• Retirement/pension contributions

• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits

• Generous number of vacation days each year

Additional Information

Background Checks

All offers of employment at Volta are conditional on the satisfactory completion of pre-employment screening, which includes confirmation of your right to work, verification of your employment history and a criminal record check, where this is permitted by local law. Screening is carried out by Zinc, an accredited third-party provider, after an offer is made and all information is handled confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection law.

Equal Opportunity

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accessibility

Volta is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at askpeople@volta.com. We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.

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