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Senior Project Manager - CTO Support

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Hybrid
Palo Alto, CA
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Palo Alto, CA
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
Owns project planning and execution for CTO-sponsored technical initiatives and cross-company priorities. Coordinates engineering, product, and delivery teams; prepares executive briefings; tracks decisions, action items, dependencies, timelines, and risks; and supports strategic analysis and initiative scoping. The role requires project management experience supporting senior technical leadership, strong communication, discretion, technical fluency, and comfort in fast-changing environments.
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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.

About The Role

The Senior Project Manager, CTO Support, owns project management for initiatives run directly out of the CTO's office — strategic technical projects, executive-sponsored initiatives, and cross-company technical priorities that need close coordination and visibility.

You will work closely with the CTO's office to keep fast-moving, high-visibility projects organised, tracked, and moving — acting as the connective tissue between strategic intent and day-to-day execution.

What You Will Be Doing
  • Own project plans and execution for initiatives sponsored by the CTO's office

  • Coordinate across engineering, product, and delivery teams on CTO-level priorities

  • Prepare materials, updates, and briefings for CTO and executive reviews

  • Track action items and decisions from executive/technical leadership meetings

  • Manage timelines and dependencies for fast-moving, high-visibility projects

  • Identify risks early and escalate appropriately to the CTO's office

  • Support ad hoc strategic analysis and initiative scoping as directed by the CTO

What You Bring
  • Project management experience supporting senior technical leadership is essential

  • Strong organisational skills and comfort operating in high-visibility, fast-changing environments

  • Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive-level briefing

  • Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly with engineering leadership

  • Discretion and judgement handling sensitive, executive-level information

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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 [email protected]. We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.

Candidate Privacy Notice

By applying, you consent to the processing of your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the UK GDPR, EU GDPR and relevant US state privacy regulations. Your data will be shared only with those involved in the hiring process and will not be used for unrelated purposes. For details, see our Recruitment & Candidate Privacy Notice.

Note to Recruitment Agencies

Volta does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited submissions, including those sent directly to hiring managers or employees, will be treated as the property of Volta. No agency fees will be payable unless a valid, signed recruitment agreement is in place, and the agency has been specifically engaged for the relevant vacancy.

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