Key Responsibilities
People Leadership & Coaching (~30–40%)
Direct Management: Formally manage, mentor, and develop a team of 2–3 Program/Project Managers, overseeing their performance, career growth, and daily execution.
Portfolio & Capacity Orchestration: Balance workload distribution and project assignments across your team to optimize build velocity and prevent single points of failure.
Process Standardization: Establish best practices, templates, and execution frameworks across your pod to elevate delivery consistency and program governance.
Strategic Execution & Build Ownership (~60–70%)
Flagship Program Delivery: Serve as the primary player and point of accountability for the end-to-end execution of Vultr’s high-priority, strategic data center builds.
High-Stakes Facilitation: Lead and facilitate critical technical workshops, cross-functional architecture reviews, and executive decision-making sessions in high-pressure environments.
Stakeholder & Vendor Orchestration: Act as the central integration point between internal engineering, external vendors, construction partners, and global suppliers.
Program Health & Visibility: Maintain absolute portfolio health across all Smartsheet and Jira Plans instances, ensuring schedules, dependencies, and risk registries reflect real-time operational truth.
Executive Communication: Translate high-density technical jargon and global infrastructure milestones into concise executive dashboards and strategic updates for business leadership.
Ambiguity Navigation: Lead through uncertainty by establishing operational structure, identifying bottleneck dependencies early, and driving fast cross-functional resolution.
Qualifications
12+ years of Program Management experience within a technical or infrastructure-focused organization, with demonstrated progression into technical team leadership.
2+ years of formal people management experience leading direct reports (Program Managers, TPMs, or Project Managers).
Expert-level proficiency in Smartsheet and Jira Plans; specifically in architecting multi-program portfolios, master schedules, and cross-project dependency tracking.
Proven Player-Coach Capability: Ability to seamlessly pivot between executive-level people management and tactical, hands-on program execution.
Technical Depth: Strong foundational understanding of global data center deployments, network topology, power/cooling dependencies, and critical-path requirements for modern AI/Cloud infrastructure rollouts.