Director, AI Platforms, Global

About Vantage 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 in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Artificial Intelligence Team The Artificial Intelligence Team exists to amplify human potential through intelligent technology. We're building an AI-powered ecosystem that transforms how Vantage creates value, freeing our people from routine work so they can focus on innovation and strategic thinking that truly differentiates us in the market. Through responsible AI implementation across operations, engineering, and business functions, we're not just automating processes;

we're reimagining what's possible when human creativity partners with artificial intelligence. Our approach centers on measurable business outcomes, ethical governance, and creating capabilities that make every team member more effective while positioning Vantage at the forefront of the intelligent infrastructure revolution.

Position Overview The Director, AI Platforms leads Vantage’s AI platform strategy and operations, owning the Halo platform roadmap and Vantage’s AI Fin Ops practice while managing go-to-market packaging, program governance, and cross-team coordination for the entire AI organization. The Director translates the AI strategy set by the Head of AI into the Halo roadmap and delivers it, making Halo, Vantage’s secure, governed AI platform, easy for employees and business builders to access and use, and giving Vantage clear visibility into what its AI consumption costs and where that spend goes.

This role owns three interconnected mandates: ensuring platform reliability and continuous improvement, driving enterprise-wide adoption through compelling value narratives, and providing the operational backbone that enables the Navigators and Accelerators teams to execute effectively. The Director builds and leads a team spanning platform engineering, product management, and program operations, creating the infrastructure and governance frameworks that transform individual AI experiments into sustainable enterprise capabilities.

Success requires balancing technical platform excellence with business storytelling, operational discipline with innovation agility, and centralized governance with distributed execution. This is the role that ensures Vantage’s AI investments compound rather than fragment, creating shared foundations that accelerate every team’s impact.

Essential Job Functions Build and lead the AI Platforms team spanning Halo platform and roadmap ownership, AI Fin Ops, go-to-market leadership, and program operations, developing capabilities that balance technical depth with business value communication.

Own the Halo platform roadmap at the director level and drive the health, performance, and continuous improvement of Halo, establishing reliability standards, monitoring frameworks, and an onboarding experience that make the platform easy to access and use while ensuring stability and enabling innovation.

Run Halo platform management, including support intake, bug triage, documentation and runbooks, and tiered support for the Halo platform and the AI applications built on it, including solutions delivered by the Accelerators team, as well as backlog prioritization, release and change management, and platform health reporting, along with builder onboarding that gets Business-Led Development teams the access, credentials, and development environment they need to start building.

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