Senior Program Manager – WAN (Wide Area Networking)

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Program Manager (WAN) to lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of our wide-area networking initiatives. This role is critical to ensuring Nscale’s backbone, interconnects, and regional expansions are delivered on time, at scale, and with high reliability.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end WAN program delivery
• Lead large-scale initiatives such as backbone expansion, new region bring-up, capacity upgrades, and network optimization.
• Cook up cross-functional execution
• Align network engineering, infrastructure, SRE, procurement, and external vendors to deliver against timelines and milestones.
• Build and manage program plans
• Develop detailed project plans, track dependencies, identify risks, and ensure on-time delivery.
• Manage vendors and partners
• Coordinate with carriers, IXPs, and hardware providers to ensure timely provisioning and issue resolution.
• Track performance and readiness
• Ensure WAN deployments meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements before production rollout.
• Drive operational excellence
• Implement processes, tools, and reporting to improve execution, visibility, and predictability.
• Communicate with stakeholders
• Provide clear, regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on progress, risks, and outcomes.

Requirements

• Experience5–10+ years in program or project management, ideally in networking or infrastructure
• Experience delivering large-scale WAN, telecom, or data center programs
• Background working with cross-functional technical teams
• Networking familiaritySolid understanding of WAN concepts (e.g., BGP, routing, capacity planning, fiber, peering)
• Ability to work effectively with network engineers and vendors
• Execution excellenceProven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs
• Strong planning, risk management, and dependency tracking skills
• Vendor managementExperience working with carriers, ISPs, or infrastructure vendors
• CommunicationStrong stakeholder management and executive communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with hyperscale or cloud infrastructure environments
• Familiarity with AI/ML or HPC infrastructure requirements
• Experience with network deployment at global scale
• PMP, PgMP, or similar certifications

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Professional Scrum Master (PSP), Project Management Professional (PMP), or similar certification

Skills

• Project Management
• Networking
• Collaboration
• Leadership
• Problem Solving

Benefits

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Pay

$140,000 - $220,000 USD

Schedule

Full-time