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Rowan Digital Infrastructure is redefining how data centers are delivered faster, smarter, and at scale. We partner with hyperscale customers to provide tailored, high-performance infrastructure with a focus on sustainability, efficiency, and flexibility.

Our experienced, end-to-end team delivers custom solutions across a growing portfolio of strategic sites in key markets across the United States. Backed by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, Rowan is committed to enabling the next generation of digital infrastructure and building a more sustainable future in the process.

Ready to help transform how the world’s most important technologies are powered? Join us.

Role Summary

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is seeking a Pipeline Management, Program Manager to own early stage project governance, project controls, and reporting across the development portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of development origination, financial controls, and operational discipline, ensuring that opportunities are rigorously evaluated, consistently tracked, and advanced through the development lifecycle with clear accountability and data integrity.

The role combines project controls expertise with pipeline and portfolio management, supporting both near-term investment decisions and long-range strategic planning. The successful candidate will work closely with Site Development, Energy & Water, Permitting & Compliance, Economic Development & Governmental Affairs, Finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to enable disciplined growth across Rowan’s portfolio.

Travel: Ability to travel up to 30% for project site visits and company gatherings.

Location: Denver, CO or Seattle, WA (hybrid in-office role)

Compensation: $110-$130K (Offers Bonus)

Essential Responsibilities

• Serve as project controls owner for early-stage data center opportunities, ensuring financial discipline, transparency, and alignment with Rowan project controls standards across the development portfolio

• Create, maintain, and manage project budgets in Procore, including establishing cost baselines aligned to scope maturity and supporting structured budgeting exercises for lead-stage opportunities

• Monitor cost assumptions and variances as opportunities mature, pulling historical cost data to support quarterly and annual reporting, trend analysis, and forward-looking financial planning

• Own early-stage project management for Development-originated opportunities across Site Development, Energy & Water, and Economic Development & Governmental Affairs, ensuring opportunities are consistently logged, structured, and governed from initial lead through advancement into subsequent stages

• Define, track, and enforce service-level agreements (SLAs) for due diligence activities during the Leads stage, driving cross-functional accountability, surfacing risks early, and ensuring readiness before lifecycle progression

• Own lead-stage reporting, including the creation, monitoring, and continuous refinement of pipeline KPIs to support executive reporting, leadership reviews, and Investment Committee–adjacent discussions

Education, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, real estate, or related field

• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: data center or network capacity planning, data center or network infrastructure program/project management, or related technical fields

• Experience building and analyzing cost/benefit scenarios and business cases, and communicating results across the organization

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects in fast-paced environments with high ambiguity

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills

• Experience with financial modeling, vendor management, and global supply chain strategies is a plus

Fueled by Excellence & Collaboration

At Rowan, we are a distributed team united by a common mission to transform data center delivery. Across our two offices, we offer a hybrid work environment supported by the teamwork, technology, and in-office gathering time to help you be successful. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado and have an office in Seattle, Washington. Our team of talented and passionate individuals is spread out across the U.S.

Here to support you

At Rowan, we want to make sure you can do great work. We offer competitive benefits focused on helping you be and achieve your best.

• Hybrid working environment

• Team building and educational opportunities

• Generous benefits package including robust health benefits and a 401(k) company contribution

• Unlimited PTO

• Competitive compensation and bonus plan

Equal Opportunity Employer

Rowan Digital is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome and celebrate diversity in all aspects of our workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

Compensation Range: $110K - $130K