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Blacksmith Software Inc

Head of Capacity

New York, NY · On-site

Manage relationships with hardware vendors, datacenter providers, and infrastructure suppliers ... Have experience with capacity planning, forecasting, or infrastructure operations. * Can balance ...

Werner

Team Capacity Developer

Omaha, NE

Job Profile Summary The main purpose of this position is to promote team growth by creating quality team matches and educating drivers on the benefits and opportunities that come with being a Team ...

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As of Aug 15, 2026, the average yearly pay for capacity manager in the United States is $68,718.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $47,500.00 and $87,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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A Capacity Manager is responsible for ensuring that an organization's IT infrastructure and resources can meet current and future business demands. They analyze system capacity, forecast future needs, and optimize resource allocation to prevent performance issues or downtime. This role involves working closely with IT teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to balance cost efficiency with performance requirements. Capacity Managers also develop strategies for scaling infrastructure, manage capacity-related risks, and implement proactive solutions to maintain service levels.

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A Capacity Manager often faces the challenge of accurately predicting resource needs in rapidly changing business environments, which requires both analytical rigor and adaptability. Managing competing priorities among various departments can also be demanding, as different teams may have fluctuating and sometimes conflicting needs. Effective communication and strong collaboration skills are essential to align expectations and secure buy-in from stakeholders. Staying proactive by regularly reviewing data trends and adjusting plans helps prevent bottlenecks or resource shortages, ensuring projects and operations continue smoothly.

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A Capacity Manager typically requires a strong background in data analysis, demand forecasting, process optimization, and a relevant degree such as in business, engineering, or information technology. Familiarity with capacity planning software, resource management tools, and IT Service Management (ITSM) platforms—along with certifications like ITIL—are highly valued. Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills help set top performers apart. These skills are crucial for ensuring resource efficiency, balancing workload, and supporting organizational growth in dynamic environments.

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Infographic showing various Capacity Manager job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 86% Full Time, 12% Part Time, and 1% Contract. Highlights an 94% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 4% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $68,718 per year, or $33 per hour.

Head of Capacity

Blacksmith Software Inc

New York, NY • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 24 days ago

Job description

About Blacksmith
  • We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs.
  • Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each month, running CI for 3,000+ companies and hit ~$10M in ARR in less than 2 years. We've more than tripled revenue since the start of 2026.
  • We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
  • We've raised $13.5M across Seed and Series A, led by Google Ventures (GV), and we're intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
  • Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
  • We're now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.

About the Role
Blacksmith's infrastructure footprint is growing rapidly.
Every quarter, we make decisions around servers, storage, networking, datacenter capacity, power, and geographic expansion. As demand for software validation grows, ensuring that capacity is available when and where we need it becomes increasingly important.
We're looking for someone to own this problem.
You'll work directly with the founders and infrastructure team to forecast demand, plan capacity growth, manage supplier relationships, and ensure Blacksmith can scale ahead of customer demand.
Your job is simple to describe but difficult to execute: Make sure Blacksmith never runs out of capacity.
What You'll Do
  • Own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter infrastructure.
  • Build forecasting models for infrastructure demand and growth.
  • Partner with engineering to understand future workload requirements.
  • Develop deployment plans across regions and datacenter partners.
  • Manage relationships with hardware vendors, datacenter providers, and infrastructure suppliers.
  • Lead hardware procurement and infrastructure expansion efforts.
  • Evaluate new suppliers, hardware platforms, and deployment opportunities.
  • Track utilization and ensure infrastructure investments are deployed efficiently.
  • Build processes and systems that allow Blacksmith to scale from thousands of servers to many times that number.

You Are a Good Fit If You
  • Have experience operating large-scale infrastructure, cloud, hosting, networking, or datacenter environments.
  • Have experience with capacity planning, forecasting, or infrastructure operations.
  • Can balance long-term planning with day-to-day operational realities.
  • Are highly analytical and comfortable making decisions under uncertainty.
  • Have strong vendor management and negotiation skills.
  • Can work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
  • Enjoy solving operational problems at scale.
  • Want to work closely with founders on company-critical infrastructure decisions.
  • Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in SF/NYC.

Bonus
  • Experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, hosting company, CDN, or infrastructure startup.
  • Experience procuring servers, networking equipment, storage, or datacenter capacity.
  • Experience managing infrastructure supply chains.
  • Experience with power planning, datacenter operations, or colocation providers.
  • Experience scaling infrastructure through periods of hypergrowth.

What Success Looks Like
Within your first year:
  • Blacksmith has a clear, data-driven capacity planning process.
  • Infrastructure growth is forecasted quarters ahead of demand.
  • Hardware procurement and deployment timelines are predictable.
  • Vendor and datacenter relationships are strong and scalable.
  • Leadership has visibility into future capacity constraints before they become operational issues.
  • Blacksmith can confidently scale infrastructure without becoming constrained by supply, deployment timelines, or planning failures.

Compensation and benefits
  • Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
  • Competitive base + equity.
  • 401K match.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Annual offsite.
  • Early-exercise stock options
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)

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