Senior Lead or Lead Program Manager – Strategic Initiatives; RapidScale

Company Cox Communications, Inc.

Job Family Group Business Operations

Job Profile Lead Project / Program Manager

Management Level Manager - Non People Leader

Flexible Work Option Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel % Yes, 15% of the time

Work Shift Day

Compensation Compensation includes a base salary of $99,000.00 - $. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

At Rapid Scale, 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, backed by the strength of the Cox family of companies.

We are searching for a Senior Lead or Lead Program Manager to oversee multiple overlapping in-flight programs spanning across IT, Operations, and customer facing delivery. This is not a traditional IT program management role — it is a strategic program leadership position requiring executive presence, political acumen, M&A experience, and experience implementing greenfield enterprise platforms and sun setting complex and highly-integrated existing platforms.

You’ll be joining a newly formed Strategic Initiatives team comprised of people who are passionate about change and enablement and involved in the most critical enterprise programs. We excel at getting ambiguous objectives and turning them into structured, executable programs. You will help define new ways of working and building relationships along the way.

You will own complex, cross-functional programs that shape the future of the company, including post-merger integration, large-scale business transformations, business process redesign, and strategic initiatives that span multiple years and business units. In addition to program delivery, you will play a key role in maturing and operationalizing enterprise governance frameworks (portfolio governance, program steering committees, process governance, etc.). In this position, you will engage directly with members of our leadership team to assess their requirements and coordinate efforts across various teams and external vendors to fulfill those objectives.

• Lead end-to-end strategic and transformational programs from initiation through closure, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and delivery of targeted business outcomes.
• Oversee enterprise platform decommissions and implementations.
• Serve as a program interface to the Executive Leadership Team; prepare and deliver concise, high-quality updates, decision materials, and risk/mitigation briefings for CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and Board committees.
• Drive post-merger integration work streams, including synergy tracking, cultural integration, Day-1/Day-100 planning, organizational design, and systems/process harmonization.
• Partner with corporate development, finance, legal, HR, and business unit leaders during due diligence and integration planning phases of M&A transactions.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve enterprise-level program/portfolio governance models (stage-gate processes, steering committees, risk frameworks, benefits realization tracking, etc.).
• Facilitate executive workshops, offsites, and decision-making forums using structured problem-solving and change management techniques.
• Identify, track, and realize strategic benefits (financial, operational, customer, and employee impact) and own benefits realization reporting to executives.
• Coach and mentor junior program/project managers; raise the overall bar for program management maturity across the organization.
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and issues across a complex stakeholder landscape that includes external partners, acquired entities, and…