Engineering Operations Execution Lead

Vantor • Westminster, CO

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About The Position

Vantor is seeking an Engineering Operations Execution Lead to drive execution across its engineering portfolio. This role involves leading complex, cross-domain initiatives, managing key planning and portfolio mechanisms, and ensuring clear visibility into dependencies, risks, decisions, and outcomes. A significant aspect of the role is scaling execution through AI-enabled and agentic project management, utilizing agents to handle routine coordination and lower-complexity initiatives, allowing human program leadership to focus on ambiguity, critical decisions, and high-consequence work. The Engineering Operations team is building a common operating system for how Engineering plans, executes, measures, and continuously improves its work.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading complex technical programs across multiple engineering teams or domains.
• Strong technical fluency and credibility with engineering teams and leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to create clarity, accountability, and momentum in ambiguous environments.
• Strong understanding of engineering planning, dependency and risk management, and technical delivery.
• Experience applying AI, automation, or agentic workflows to operational problems, with strong judgment about where human involvement remains necessary.
• Ability to use data and systems of record to create trustworthy execution visibility.
• Excellent communication, influence, and leadership skills across technical teams and senior leadership.
• A systems mindset with a bias toward simplification, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement.
• Must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-domain engineering initiatives from definition through delivery.
• Establish clear outcomes, ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
• Drive resolution of execution gaps and escalate issues requiring leadership decisions.
• Run operating cadences that focus leaders on decisions, exceptions, and tradeoffs—not status collection.
• Apply the appropriate level of rigor based on technical complexity, risk, and mission consequence.
• Establish and operate an agentic project-management model for lower-complexity engineering initiatives.
• Determine which work requires human program leadership and which can be effectively managed through agents.
• Use agents to automate routine coordination, status synthesis, milestone tracking, evidence collection, and risk identification.
• Define escalation paths and human-in-the-loop controls for ambiguity, exceptions, and consequential decisions.
• Partner with the Agentic Engineering Lead to improve agent capabilities, context, and integration with Engineering systems of record.
• Measure whether agentic project management is increasing execution coverage while reducing administrative burden.
• Run quarterly engineering planning and portfolio operating cadences.
• Maintain visibility into initiative health, cross-team dependencies, resource conflicts, and delivery risks.
• Partner with Product Operations and Engineering leaders on roadmap alignment and execution.
• Create concise, trustworthy portfolio views that allow leaders to quickly identify where intervention is needed.
• Improve the quality of execution data in Engineering’s authoritative systems of record.
• Identify recurring execution friction and translate it into improvements to the Engineering operating model.
• Reduce manual coordination, reporting, and unnecessary ceremony.
• Partner with the Engineering Operations Principal on standards, governance, and operating-model improvements.
• Drive adoption and feedback loops across Engineering.

Benefits

• Robust 401(k) with company match
• Mental health resources
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Adoption reimbursement
• Pet insurance
• Incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed