Principal Program Manager - Front End Planning

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall Front-End Planning function for AMERS Lease delivery, establishing the framework, governance, standards, and cadence for intake analysis and execution readiness.
• Develop and lead a multidisciplinary team of lease construction management, ITIM, schedule, and cost personnel to evaluate lease opportunities before execution handoff.
• Provide comprehensive lease intake analysis, including assessment of scope completeness, lessor obligations, Microsoft fit-out requirements, technical readiness, constructability, schedule feasibility, cost exposure, and execution risks.
• Translate business, operational, technical, and commercial requirements into actionable pre-lease planning inputs and decision-quality recommendations for leadership review.
• Establish governance mechanisms to track readiness, assumptions, gaps, risks, decisions, and owner accountability across lease intake and pre-execution milestones.
• Partner with lease delivery, ITIM, networking, security, telecom, cost management, scheduling, procurement, engineering, operations, safety, and lessor stakeholders to align execution requirements and handoff expectations.
• Validate integrated schedule logic, PO need-by dates, long-lead constraints, and Ready for Service assumptions against project scope, procurement strategy, and lessor delivery commitments.
• Drive early identification, escalation, and mitigation of scope, schedule, cost, safety, constructability, and integration risks before projects move into execution.
• Own development of execution turnover packages that provide the delivery team with clear lease requirements, technical assumptions, stakeholder commitments, risk registers, governance decisions, and open actions.
• Champion continuous improvement of front-end planning processes, tools, templates, and metrics to improve consistency, predictability, and execution outcomes across the lease portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.