Senior Director, Data Center Operations

About RUM Group Inc. RUM Group Inc. is an AI infrastructure and video company. Its Quake AI business delivers AI compute as a service, operating AI data centers including GPU and CPU compute, storage, and networking at scale. Rumble, RUM Group's video business and the original tenant of Quake AI, provides creators and enterprises a full suite of video technologies, unlocking reach, scale, and monetization. RUM Group is building the rails of the agentic-first enterprise: the AI compute, cloud infrastructure, and trust layer for the agentic AI future, advancing RUM Group's mission to maximize the power of human imagination. For more information visit www.rum.group . Quake AI is seeking a Senior Director, Data Center Operations to lead the full operational lifecycle of a flagship AI compute campus in Maysville, Georgia. This role will own two 90MW, 125,000-square-foot data center buildings engineered for high-density liquid-cooled AI and HPC workloads. As the senior on-site leader, you will be accountable for uptime, safety, cost, operational readiness, and long-term capacity delivery across the campus. This is a hands-on leadership role spanning late-stage construction, MEP commissioning, and steady-state 24/7 critical operations. You will build and lead the site operations organization, establish operating processes and staffing models, oversee vendor and service-partner performance, and serve as the primary operational leader through the transition from construction turnover to live production environments. The role requires strong technical depth across mission-critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure, along with the leadership judgment to operate in a fast-moving, high-accountability environment. The ideal candidate brings deep experience operating large-scale or hyperscale critical facilities, with particular strength in commissioning, operational ramp-up, and high-density cooling environments. You should be comfortable leading across both technical and business dimensions of the site, including budget ownership, workforce planning, customer readiness, and incident escalation, while building a culture centered on safety, discipline, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities Lead all aspects of data center operations for a two-building AI campus, including staffing, operational readiness, maintenance strategy, vendor management, and site performance. Build and lead the site organization across facility leadership, critical operations, engineering, commissioning, and shift-based support functions. Own the site operating budget across labor, utilities, spares, maintenance programs, and contracted services. Partner through the final phases of construction and commissioning by providing operational input on maintainability, operability, and handoff readiness for critical MEP infrastructure, including medium-voltage distribution, standby generation, UPS systems, chiller plants, dry coolers, CDU and liquid-cooling loops, and controls integration across BMS, EPMS, and DCIM platforms. Oversee integrated systems testing, turnover documentation, spares provisioning, and development of MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs to support safe and reliable operations. Establish and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs, incident response processes, root-cause analysis practices, and capacity planning models as AI customer loads are commissioned over time. Serve as the primary escalation point for critical events and as the senior operational contact for executive and customer stakeholders. Qualifications 12+ years of experience in mission-critical facilities or data center operations, including 5+ years in a senior leadership role with budget ownership and team leadership responsibility. Demonstrated experience commissioning and operating large-scale or hyperscale data centers, ideally in campus environments at 50MW+ scale. Deep technical knowledge of critical MEP systems, including medium-voltage switchgear, gener…