Senior Lead or Lead Program Manager – Strategic Initiatives (RapidScale)

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Job Family Group

Business Operations

Job Profile

Lead Project / Program Manager

Management Level

Manager - Non People Leader

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 15% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $99,000.00 - $165,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. We deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds, helping organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. As an Elite Broadcom VMware VCSP Partner and top partner with AWS, Azure, and Google, our solutions focus on business outcomes with embedded cyber resiliency and AI to protect today and enable tomorrow, backed by the strength of the Cox family of companies.

 

Overview 

We are searching for a Senior Lead or Lead Program Manager to oversee multiple overlapping in-flight programs spanning across IT, Operations, and customer facing delivery.  This is not a traditional IT program management role — it is a strategic program leadership position requiring executive presence, political acumen, M&A experience, and experience implementing greenfield enterprise platforms and sunsetting complex and highly-integrated existing platforms. You’ll be joining a newly formed Strategic Initiatives team comprised of people who are passionate about change and enablement and involved in the most critical enterprise programs. We excel at getting ambiguous objectives and turning them into structured, executable programs. You will help define new ways of working and building relationships along the way.  

You will own complex, cross-functional programs that shape the future of the company, including post-merger integration, large-scale business transformations, business process redesigns, and strategic initiatives that span multiple years and business units. In addition to program delivery, you will play a key role in maturing and operationalizing enterprise governance frameworks (portfolio governance, program steering committees, process governance, etc.). In this position, you will engage directly with members of our leadership team to assess their requirements and coordinate efforts across various teams and external vendors to fulfill those objectives. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end strategic and transformational programs from initiation through closure, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and delivery of targeted business outcomes. 

• Oversee enterprise platform decommissions and implementations. 

• Serve as a program interface to the Executive Leadership Team; prepare and deliver concise, high-quality updates, decision materials, and risk/mitigation briefings for CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and Board committees. 

• Drive post-merger integration workstreams, including synergy tracking, cultural integration, Day-1/Day-100 planning, o