Description
This is a senior individual contributor role with high visibility and cross-functional reach. You will manage programs, processes, and accountability across an organization that is scaling faster than its existing playbooks.
A core focus of this role is the network backbone and long-haul fiber connectivity that makes each new site usable. You will own the sequencing of that connectivity workstream against site readiness, ensuring fiber, transport, and interconnect milestones land ahead of power and compute turn-up.
Responsibilities:
- Own and continuously maintain the master interdependency tracker linking the international pipeline to the domestic development pipeline.
- Drive cross-functional accountability across Legal, Finance, Engineering, and Operations.
- Own the end-to-end program plan for network backbone and fiber connectivity at each new market and site.
- Manage carrier, dark fiber provider, subsea consortium, and construction partner deliverables against schedule, quality, and diversity requirements.
- Ensure all active opportunities and programs progress through required intake, review, and approval gates on schedule.
- Maintain a connectivity view of the portfolio.
- Engage substantively in technical discussions with network engineering and architecture teams.
- Build and continuously improve the systems that make this function scalable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years in technical program management, program operations, or strategic analytics within data center, network infrastructure, telecommunications, or capital-intensive sectors.
- Working knowledge of network backbone and fiber infrastructure.
- Comfortable managing external vendors and partners.
- Solid understanding of hardware development lifecycles.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence without direct authority, and drive consensus in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Engineering or an MBA.
- 10+ years of experience in technical program management within the hardware industry, with a strong focus on Networking hardware technologies.
- Experience with networking switch designs for both Infiniband and high speed Ethernet.
The base salary range for this role is $157,000 to $210,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.