Lead Program Manager, Client Project Delivery for Professional Services (RapidScale)(REMOTE)

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Hiring Remotely in Raleigh, NC, USA
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Senior level
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The Role
Leads complex cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business transformation programs for enterprise customers. Responsibilities include executive stakeholder management, cross-functional leadership, engagement governance, resource planning, budgeting, forecasting, profitability, risk and scope management, customer satisfaction, and delivery performance. The role also drives process improvement, develops project management standards, mentors team members, and ensures successful customer outcomes across professional services engagements.
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This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. We deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds, helping organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. As an Elite Broadcom VMware VCSP Partner and top partner with AWS, Azure, and Google, our solutions focus on business outcomes, with embedded cyber resiliency and AI to protect today and enable tomorrow, all backed by the scale and strength of Spectrum.
The Professional Services team is looking for a consultative Project & Program Manager to drive our customers' large-scale technology and business transformation initiatives. You will be at the forefront of guiding large-scale, complex initiatives and helping customers drive business transformation projects and programs. You will be responsible for gathering business, technical, operational, and commercial objectives from the customer and working backwards to build and maintain a successful engagement. Your ultimate goal will be to drive customer satisfaction, delivery excellence, and business value through high-level and tactical communication, strong cross-functional leadership, disciplined execution, thoughtful resource planning, and effective management of delivery metrics, financial performance, and outcomes.
Duties and Responsibilities
  • Lead large-scale, complex cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business transformation programs for RapidScale's strategic and enterprise customers.
  • Serve as the primary engagement leader, partnering with executive stakeholders to define business outcomes, align priorities, and ensure successful delivery of transformational initiatives.
  • Independently plan, execute, and govern multiple concurrent projects and programs, ensuring alignment to customer objectives, contractual commitments, scope, financial targets, and delivery milestones.
  • Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with customer executives, sponsors, and key stakeholders by providing strategic guidance, proactive communication, and consultative leadership throughout the engagement lifecycle.
  • Lead cross-functional teams across Professional Services, Engineering, Product, Support, Sales, Customer Success, and partner organizations to deliver integrated cloud and managed services solutions.
  • Facilitate executive steering committees, governance reviews, and program status meetings, translating complex technical, operational, and financial information into clear business recommendations and actionable decisions.
  • Own engagement governance, including management of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, changes, escalations, scope management and stakeholder communications.
  • Drive delivery excellence through disciplined program controls, resource planning, forecasting, budget management, milestone tracking, and performance measurement.
  • Own the financial performance of assigned engagements, including revenue realization, profitability, forecast accuracy, scope management, and overall program health.
  • Apply business and financial acumen to delivery decisions by evaluating tradeoffs, identifying risks and opportunities, and helping customers align investments to desired business outcomes and return on investment.
  • Monitor customer satisfaction and engagement health, proactively identifying concerns, leading corrective actions, and driving successful business outcomes that strengthen long-term customer relationships.
  • Collaborate with leadership to optimize resource allocation across projects and programs, balancing customer commitments, organizational priorities, technical capabilities, and delivery capacity.
  • Identify opportunities for process improvement, operational efficiency, and service innovation both within customer environments and across RapidScale delivery practices.
  • Contribute to the evolution of RapidScale's Project and Program Management methodology by establishing best practices, improving governance standards, mentoring team members, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Support onboarding and development of new team members through knowledge sharing, coaching, and mentorship.
  • Escalate issues, risks, scope variances and any identified challenges that require leadership attention.

Qualifications & Attributes
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (or equivalent experience) and 6 years' experience leading complex technology programs, consulting engagements, or business transformation initiatives within cloud, managed services, professional services, or enterprise technology environments.
  • The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 10 years' experience in a related field
  • Experience leading large-scale cloud, infrastructure, migration, modernization, or enterprise technology transformation initiatives.
  • Strong commercial focus with demonstrated ability to balance customer outcomes, delivery excellence, financial performance, and business objectives for both our clients and RapidScale.
  • Demonstrated success managing program financials, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability, scope management, and engagement health.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to apply ROI and cost-benefit analysis to prioritization, investment decisions, and delivery strategy.
  • Experience managing executive-level customer relationships and facilitating governance with senior business and technology stakeholders.
  • Executive presence with exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with customer executives and internal leadership teams.
  • Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority across technical, operational, and business functions.
  • Demonstrated success shaping standards, improving operating models, implementing governance frameworks, and driving process improvement initiatives.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams delivering technical solutions, professional consulting services, or managed services, preferably within enterprise customer environments.
  • Knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, software development and delivery methodologies, cybersecurity, professional services, and/or managed services environments.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications
  • PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Agile, Lean, CAPM, Prosci,or similar project, program, or change management certifications, or Cloud Specific technology certifications
  • Experience within managed services, cloud consulting, professional services, or enterprise technology organizations.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMware, cybersecurity, or infrastructure modernization initiatives.

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Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
  • Six years of experience leading complex technology programs, consulting engagements, or business transformation initiatives; equivalent combinations may include a master’s degree with four years, a Ph.D. with one year, or ten years of related experience
  • Experience leading large-scale cloud, infrastructure, migration, modernization, or enterprise technology transformation initiatives
  • Experience managing program financials, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability, scope management, and engagement health
  • Experience managing executive-level customer relationships and facilitating governance with senior business and technology stakeholders
  • Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority
  • Experience shaping standards, improving operating models, implementing governance frameworks, and driving process improvement
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams delivering technical solutions, professional consulting services, or managed services
  • Knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, software development and delivery methodologies, cybersecurity, professional services, or managed services environments
  • Strong commercial focus, business acumen, ROI and cost-benefit analysis skills, analytical ability, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
  • Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, executive communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Agile, Lean, CAPM, Prosci, similar project/program/change management certification, or cloud-specific technology certification
  • Experience within managed services, cloud consulting, professional services, or enterprise technology organizations
  • Familiarity with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMware, cybersecurity, or infrastructure modernization initiatives

RapidScale Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is often considered competitive or "great," and is commonly cited among the best parts of working at the company. Pay is seen as a core strength that helps attract experienced talent across sales, consulting, and engineering roles.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Sales and other client-facing roles are viewed as offering strong earning potential, with compensation structures that can be especially competitive. Upside opportunity is highlighted in areas such as mid-market account executive and consulting tracks.

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The Company
HQ: Raleigh, NC
600 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

RapidScale delivers secure, scalable, innovative solutions to enterprises through the most comprehensive and customizable suite of managed, professional, and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds. Our solutions are designed to meet business outcomes—not just infrastructure needs—with fully embedded cyber resiliency and forward-looking, data-managed AI solutions. We’re on every platform that matters, which means we can adapt to any situation, optimize operations, modernize systems, improve agility, and grow with our clients based entirely on their needs—not off-the-shelf offerings. Our job isn’t just to manage environments. It’s to help businesses stay innovative, relevant, and competitive. By combining advisory expertise with hands-on execution, we open new revenue streams, optimize operations, modernize systems, improve agility, and uncover new ways for technology to fuel lasting business growth. As one of Broadcom VMware’s select few Elite partners, we provide hybrid-ready architecture, strategic expertise, and expansion of talent—in multi-tenant or dedicated environments in one or more of our global facilities and/or on premises in a client’s data center. As an AWS Premier Partner, Microsoft Azure Expert MSP, and certified Google Cloud Partner, we can optimize, modernize, and manage public cloud workloads anywhere and in any combination our clients choose. 2k+ managed cloud clients. 1k+ public cloud migrations. FinOps expertise that reduces client cloud bills by an average of 15–30%. With RapidScale, clients can rapidly deploy across public, private and hybrid environments globally in SSAE-18 SOC 1 & 2, ISO, HITRUST, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS certified data centers, protected by n+1 redundancy.

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