Experience driving infrastructure cost programs in a high-growth environment (target metrics like cost per tenant, infrastructure as % of revenue)
Experience leading a cloud migration, BYOC rollout, or major platform consolidation end-to-end
Experience standing up or scaling an internal platform / developer experience function from the ground up
Experience managing strategic vendor relationships with hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) or foundation model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic)
Familiarity with the modern infra stack at scale: Terraform, Kubernetes, service meshes, data platforms, and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
Prior experience as an engineering manager, platform/infrastructure engineer, or SRE before moving into program management
8+ years of experience in technical program management, with a track record of driving large, ambiguous, multi-quarter platform or infrastructure programs to completion at scale
Deep technical fluency in core platform and infrastructure domains: cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, databases, networking, observability, CI/CD, and platform/service frameworks. You don't need to write production code, but you read system designs critically and push back substantively
Experience driving at least one of: a cloud migration at scale, a major infrastructure cost program with measurable financial impact, an internal platform buildout, or a comparably large horizontal platform/infrastructure initiative
Demonstrated ability to lead and influence senior engineering stakeholders, including Staff+ ICs, engineering managers, and executive sponsors, without direct authority
Excellent written and verbal communication, with a particular ability to distill complex technical tradeoffs into crisp narratives for exec audiences and across functions
A track record of building durable mechanisms (review forums, metrics, operating cadences) that outlive any individual program and scale with the org
Comfort with ambiguity. You're energized by problems that aren't yet well-defined and where the first step is to scope the problem itself
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field