Principal Connectivity Planner (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Ireland — Remote

Salary: £175K–£220K, plus equity and bonus

Company

AI infrastructure platform building vertically integrated compute infrastructure across capital, clusters, and software.

What you will do

• Own the global integrated connectivity schedule across carrier services, long-haul routes, data center connectivity infrastructure, equipment installation, activation, commissioning, deployment, and compute capacity dates.
• Set planning standards covering work breakdown structures, coding, durations, progress rules, reporting, and schedule governance.
• Lead programme and contractor schedule reviews, analytics, and reporting across sites and connectivity workstreams.
• Analyze risks related to supplier lead times, permits, civils, and activation, then advise leadership on trade-offs.
• Build recovery and alternative delivery options when connectivity risks threaten site turn-up, and report milestone confidence and supplier commitments.
• Use actual delivery data to benchmark durations, improve supplier forecasts, and raise planning capability across connectivity leads and suppliers.

Requirements

• Recognized senior authority in planning telecoms, network, or data center programmes, typically with 10+ years of experience.
• Proven track record of owning integrated schedules across a portfolio of sites or routes.
• Expertise in Primavera P6 or an equivalent tool, including critical path and schedule risk analysis.
• Strong understanding of carrier lead times, fiber delivery, equipment installation, and activation.
• Credibility with senior leadership when forecasting dates and recommending recovery options.
• Must have the right to work in Ireland, subject to pre-employment screening.

Nice to have

• Experience in hyperscale or AI infrastructure capacity delivery.
• Background managing long-haul fiber, permits, and carrier provisioning programmes.
• Experience with portfolio-level planning governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from Ireland within a global team.
• Competitive salary based on the work performed rather than previous salary.
• Equity participation and retirement or pension contributions.
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.
• Generous annual vacation allowance and support for work-life balance.

Hiring process

• Offers are conditional on satisfactory pre-employment screening, including right-to-work confirmation, employment-history verification, and a criminal-record check where permitted by local law.
• Screening takes place after an offer through Zinc, an accredited third-party provider.
• Reasonable recruitment accommodations are available on request; unsolicited recruitment-agency submissions are not accepted.