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The Director of Program Management for datacenter deployment at NVIDIA holds a strategic leadership role. They establish governance and standardize methodologies. They also supervise the entire execution of client and datacenter rollout initiatives, ensuring this align with business goals and customer requirements. The core function is to build and lead a high-performing PMO team while establishing and maintaining outstanding project management methodologies, standards, and tools across our client program coordination division.

This leader leads a portfolio of sophisticated, high-value projects, driving consistent and efficient delivery through effective resource allocation and cross-functional collaboration with matrixed engineering, operations, supply chain, customer program management, and onsite datacenter support teams; all the while ensuring initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, on budget, and to required quality standards using internal teams and external vendors. The Director serves as a key strategic partner to senior leadership, providing executive-level reporting on project performance, risks, and overall financial health. Come join our team now and build the future with us!

What You Will Be Doing:

• Building, mentoring, and managing a high-performing distributed team of project and program managers, promoting a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

• Develop, implement, and govern project management processes, tools, templates, policies, and metrics to ensure consistency and efficiency across all customer and datacenter deployment programs.

• Lead all aspects of the entire project portfolio, prioritizing initiatives, managing dependencies, and ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and long-term datacenter deployment roadmaps.

• Ensure all datacenter and customer projects (from inception through designin, deployment, commissioning, and postproduction support) adhere to established timelines, scope, budgetary constraints, quality, and safety standards.

• Optimize resource allocation across the portfolio, balancing PMO and crossfunctional capacity against strategic priorities and customer commitments.

• Work closely with internal and external matrixed teams-including contractors and systems integrators-that support datacenter deployment and lifecycle operations.

• Serve as the primary interface for executives, customers, partners, and vendors, coordinating crossfunctional teams to resolve issues quickly and ensuring thirdparty SOWs and deliverables provide highquality, costefficient support for NVIDIA datacenter and cloud deployments.

• Proactively identify project and portfolio-level risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement quality assurance processes to minimize disruptions and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Change management and tooling: Drive organizational change initiatives related to PMO process, tooling, and data adoption, ensuring documentation, communication, and training are accurate for teams and collaborators.

\What We Need to See:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience); a Master's degree (MBA or technical) is highly desired.

• 15+ overall years of progressive project/program management leadership, with at least 5 years running largescale datacenter, cloud infrastructure, or complex hardware/software deployment programs.

• Proven experience building and leading a Program Management Office or team, or a similar portfolio governance function in a hightech environment.

• Demonstrated success working in a matrix leadership environment, coordinating resources across multiple business units, geographies, and partner organizations.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority across engineering, operations, and customerfacing teams.

• Strong business sense and critical thinking to align the portfolio with NVIDIA's AI and datacenter strategy and demonstrate measurable value to customers and the company.

• Excellent problemsolving, decisionmaking, and organizational skills, with a strong focus on risk management and issue resolution in a highly dynamic environment.

• Adaptability and resilience to handle changing priorities in a fastpaced, highgrowth technology company.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• Professional certifications such as PMP or PgMP are highly desired; PfMP or equivalent portfoliomanagement certification is a strong plus.

• Experienced knowledge of project, program, and change management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) and proficiency with PMO tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Planview, and executive dashboarding platforms.

• Familiarity with datacenter technologies, cloud platforms, and largescale infrastructure deployments is preferred.

• Prior exposure to customerfacing or OEM/joint development programs is strongly preferred.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 425,500 USD.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 7, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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