[Hiring] Director, AI Platforms, Global @Vantage Data Centers

Role Description

The Director, AI Platforms leads Vantage’s AI platform strategy and operations, owning the Halo platform roadmap and Vantage’s AI FinOps practice while managing go-to-market packaging, program governance, and cross-team coordination for the entire AI organization. This role owns three interconnected mandates:

• Ensuring platform reliability and continuous improvement.
• Driving enterprise-wide adoption through compelling value narratives.
• Providing the operational backbone that enables the Navigators and Accelerators teams to execute effectively.

Success requires balancing technical platform excellence with business storytelling, operational discipline with innovation agility, and centralized governance with distributed execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications highly desirable.
• Extensive experience leading platform or product teams in enterprise technology environments.
• Deep understanding of enterprise AI and cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure and large language model (LLM) platforms.
• Experience with FinOps or cloud cost management for consumption-based services.
• Strong product management or go-to-market experience.
• Exceptional stakeholder management capabilities.
• Strong analytical orientation with experience designing metrics frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Collaborative leadership style.

Requirements

• Build and lead the AI Platforms team spanning Halo platform and roadmap ownership, AI FinOps, go-to-market leadership, and program operations.
• Own the Halo platform roadmap and drive the health, performance, and continuous improvement of Halo.
• Run Halo platform management, including support intake, bug triage, documentation, and runbooks.
• Build and lead Vantage’s AI FinOps practice.
• Drive enterprise-wide platform adoption through compelling value narratives.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks and reporting structures.
• Partner with the Director, Navigators, Global to ensure platform capabilities are well-understood.
• Develop go-to-market strategies for AI capabilities.
• Oversee cross-cutting program operations including executive reporting and inter-team coordination.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $200,000-210,000 Base + Bonus.
• Eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid time off and employee assistance.
• Participation in a 401k program that includes company match.

Company Description

Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability.