Director, AI Platforms, Global

Vantage Data Centers•Remote - CO, CO

1d•$200,000 - $210,000•Remote

About The Position

The Director, AI Platforms leads Vantage’s AI platform strategy and operations, owning the Halo platform roadmap and the company’s AI FinOps practice while managing go-to-market packaging, program governance, and coordination across the AI organization. The role translates the AI strategy set by the Head of AI into the Halo roadmap and delivery, making the secure, governed platform accessible to employees and business builders while providing visibility into AI consumption costs and their allocation. The Director builds and leads a team spanning platform engineering, product management, and program operations. The role is accountable for platform reliability and continual improvement, enterprise-wide adoption, and the operational frameworks that enable the Navigators and Accelerators teams to work effectively. It balances technical platform quality with business communication, operational discipline with innovation, and centralized governance with distributed execution so AI investments create shared, sustainable enterprise capabilities. The position partners with peer directors, Finance, FP&A, IT, Security, application owners, and business stakeholders. It includes 15–25% travel for stakeholder engagement, platform community building, and cross-team coordination. The position is remote, as indicated by the job posting’s #LI-Remote tag.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
Extensive experience leading platform or product teams in enterprise technology environments, with a record of building and scaling platforms that achieve broad organizational adoption.
Deep understanding of enterprise AI and cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure and large language model platforms, with hands-on experience managing platform health and evolution.
Experience with FinOps or cloud cost management for consumption-based services, including usage telemetry, forecasting, budgeting, and showback or chargeback models.
Experience with platform product management, including backlog management, bug triage, service-level agreements, release management, and internal developer experience.
Product management or go-to-market experience translating technical capabilities into value propositions for non-technical business audiences.
Demonstrated success building and leading diverse teams across technical platform ownership, analytics, product management, and program operations.
Experience establishing governance frameworks, program management structures, and reporting cadences that promote transparency without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Strong stakeholder management and ability to build trusted relationships across technical and business leadership in complex matrix organizations.
Strong analytical orientation and experience designing metrics frameworks, adoption dashboards, and technology business-value measurement approaches.
Understanding of data center operations, infrastructure technology, or related industry contexts.
Experience with enterprise AI governance, responsible AI principles, and compliance requirements in regulated or mission-critical environments.
Excellent communication skills, including executive presentations, cross-team facilitation, and communicating technology platform value.
A record of success in fast-paced environments with competing priorities and evolving organizational structures.
Collaborative leadership and ability to influence across organizational boundaries, partner with peer directors, and maintain alignment without creating bottlenecks.
Ability to travel 15–25% for stakeholder engagement, platform community building, and cross-team coordination.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or relevant certifications.
FinOps Foundation certification.

Responsibilities

Build and lead the AI Platforms team across Halo platform ownership, AI FinOps, go-to-market leadership, and program operations.
Own the Halo platform roadmap and oversee platform health, reliability, performance, onboarding, and continuous improvement.
Manage Halo platform operations, including support intake, bug triage, documentation, runbooks, tiered support, backlog prioritization, releases, change management, health reporting, and builder onboarding.
Build and lead the AI FinOps practice, providing visibility into AI consumption and partnering with Finance, FP&A, and IT on forecasting, budgeting, optimization, and showback or chargeback models.
Drive enterprise-wide adoption through value narratives, measurement frameworks, and user engagement strategies that demonstrate ROI.
Establish governance frameworks, reporting structures, and coordination mechanisms for the AI organization.
Partner with the Director, Navigators, Global, to help functional teams leverage existing platform capabilities.
Partner with the Director, AI Delivery, Global, to provide stable platforms, integration patterns, and development standards for rapid prototyping and solution delivery.
Develop go-to-market strategies that translate AI capabilities into business value propositions and ensure solutions have clear organizational narratives.
Oversee executive reporting, inter-team coordination, portfolio health tracking, and governance compliance.
Recruit, onboard, and develop platform owners, adoption specialists, go-to-market leads, and program operations professionals.
Establish Halo platform health metrics, service-level agreements, and monitoring dashboards; identify optimization and enhancement opportunities.
Design adoption measurement frameworks for engagement, business impact, and user satisfaction.
Create go-to-market playbooks, training materials, and support resources to drive adoption.
Build and maintain program governance, including portfolio tracking, resource allocation, decision gates, and executive reporting cadences.
Coordinate work and dependencies between Navigators, Platforms, and Accelerators.
Develop executive reporting that synthesizes platform health, adoption, delivery velocity, and business value.
Create platform evolution roadmaps using user feedback, Navigator insights, and emerging technologies.
Improve the Halo builder experience by reducing time to first build, enabling self-service access provisioning, and publishing golden paths and templates.
Lead migration of existing applications into Halo in partnership with application owners and IT.
Build AI FinOps dashboards and consumption guardrails, including telemetry, budget alerts, forecasts, and evidence required before drawing on consumption reserves.
Establish data governance, security, and compliance standards for platform operations.
Partner with IT and Security to ensure platform infrastructure meets enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and resilience requirements.
Monitor industry trends and competitors, assess build-versus-buy decisions, and identify strategic partnership opportunities.
Design and facilitate platform community events, user groups, and feedback channels.
Manage platform component vendor relationships, terms, and support levels.
Contribute platform perspectives to AI strategy, including organizational capabilities, adoption readiness, and infrastructure investment priorities.
Perform additional duties as assigned by Leadership.