About the job:
The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and ensure roadmap delivery within the decided-upon timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders (Leadership team, product managers and development leads)
Core Responsibilities:
Program Ownership & Delivery
- Own end-to-end execution of complex, cross-portfolio programs across multiple product lines (IaaS, PaaS & AI)
- Define and maintain program charters, milestones, critical paths, and success metrics.
- Maintain program dashboards, risk registers, and status reports.
- Drive quarterly and monthly execution cadence: operating reviews, weekly tracking, and escalation management.
- Proactively identify, manage & mitigate delivery risks, CFT (cross functional teams) dependencies, trade-offs and bottlenecks, and drive them to closure.
Operational Excellence & Scale
- Establish program-level KPIs: delivery predictability, launch quality, adoption readiness, and post-launch stability.
- Drive incident learnings and systemic fixes back into platform roadmaps.
- Continuously improve execution mechanisms, tooling, and ways of working across the cloud organization.
- Support leadership with clear, written execution narratives and dashboards.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Act as the single-threaded owner across Product Management, Engineering, Service delivery and Operations.
- Drive alignment between long-term roadmap priorities and short-term execution realities.
- Track cross-team dependencies and ensure hand-offs do not become execution gaps.
- Ensure clear communication to senior leadership through written narratives, dashboards, and executive updates.
Basic Qualifications
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and platform services.
- Proven experience managing large, multi-team programs in technology organizations with high operational and business impact.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to influence without authority.
- Experience working with Agile, Scrum, or hybrid execution models at scale.
- Strong planning, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in high ambiguity, fast-moving environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, databases).
- Exposure to AI/ML platforms, data infrastructure, or GPU-based workloads.
- Prior experience working in a hyperscaler or large-scale SaaS/cloud provider.
