About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Operations Department 

Vantage operates mission-critical data centers for the world’s largest technology firms. The operations department is responsible for setting and maintaining high operating standards across the fleet, and ensuring uptime, reliability, security, and customer service. The team includes Site Operations, responsible for the day-to-day running of the facilities and supporting infrastructure. The sites are staffed 24 x 7 with Critical Facilities Engineers (CFEs) on each shift. The Reliability Engineering Team is responsible for the setting maintenance standards, ensuring consistency and quality of site operations across the fleet, and provides subject matter expertise in the areas of electrical, mechanical, controls & automation, influencing across design, procurement, construction and commissioning. The Security Team ensures Vantage facilities are safeguarded and well monitored, and is responsible for access control, CCTV, security staffing, security design, and engineering. Lastly, the Business Operations Team is responsible for service support, KPI management, vendor relations, standards & transformation, and property management. 

Position Overview 

This role can be based in any of our US locations: Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Santa Clara, CA; or Ashburn, VA. 

The Senior Director, Strategic Programs, North America is a critical leadership role reporting directly to the SVP, Strategy & Transformation. This leader will drive the execution of high-impact strategic initiatives, oversee the Innovation Hub, and serve as the central orchestrator of executive communications and business performance reviews. The role will also contribute to the maturation of strategic program management practices across North America. It requires a unique blend of program leadership, strategic insight, and executive presence to ensure the SVP, North America is equipped with the right information, at the right time, to make high-stake decisions. 

The role will work closely with peers including the VP, Enterprise Excellence; Director of Data science; and Sr. Director of Adoption & Enablement to ensure strategic initiatives are insight-driven, operationally executable, and organizationally adopted.  

Essential Job Functions 

Strategic Portfolio Leadership 

• Lead the end-to-end execution of North America’s most critical strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and measurable outcomes.  

• Establish and manage a strategic initiative portfolio, including intake, prioritization, resource planning, dependencies, risks, outcomes and performance tracking. 

• Develop and maintain program governance frameworks, risk registers, and executive dashboards. 

Innovation Hub Leadership 

• Design and oversee the Global Innovation Hub as a platform for experimentation, R&D development, and cross-functional collaboration. 

• Partner with Data Science, Delivery, Product, Engineering, and Operations to identify and incubate high-impact innovation pilots<