Business Operations Lead, Datacenters

Cerebras Cerebras · Semiconductors · Headquarters +1 · Datacenters

Cerebras is seeking a Business Operations Lead for their Datacenters organization. This role will partner with senior leaders to build the operating system for the organization, focusing on planning, operating cadence, communications, and execution. The goal is to create structure, predictability, and transparency to improve decision-making and execution quality as the datacenter organization scales.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the operating cadence for the Datacenter organization, including monthly and quarterly business reviews, metrics, reporting, and leadership updates.
  2. Partner with senior leaders to translate strategic priorities into clear plans, mechanisms, and follow-through.
  3. Build and run the business planning processes that keep teams aligned on priorities, dependencies, risks, and execution progress.
  4. Drive high-quality communications and change management across the organization so decisions are understood and actions land cleanly.
  5. Create predictability and transparency across business rhythms by reducing ad hoc noise, clarifying requirements, and improving intake and triage.

Skills

Required

  • business operations
  • program management
  • operational leadership
  • datacenter experience
  • infrastructure experience
  • complex technical environment experience
  • analytical skills
  • structured thinking
  • execution orientation
  • ability to create clarity
  • ability to synthesize information
  • experience working with senior leaders
  • ability to balance competing priorities
  • judgment with incomplete information
  • simplification
  • friction removal
  • mechanism creation
  • scaling mechanisms
  • attention to detail
  • executive communication

Nice to have

  • AI chip
  • AI compute power
  • AI applications
  • Generative AI inference
  • agentic computation

What the JD emphasized

  • build the operating system
  • scale with rigor
  • strong operating rhythms
  • clean decision paths
  • reliable mechanisms
  • predictability to business reviews
  • planning cycles
  • communications
  • cross-functional asks
  • transparency
  • quality of decision making
  • scale without losing speed
  • business operations
  • program management
  • operational leadership
  • datacenter
  • infrastructure
  • complex technical environment
  • highly analytical
  • structured
  • execution oriented
  • create clarity where there is ambiguity
  • turn scattered inputs into a coherent operating model
  • balancing competing priorities
  • making sound judgments with incomplete information
  • builder by instinct
  • simplify
  • remove friction
  • create mechanisms that scale
  • raising the quality of decisions and execution