Senior Program Manager, Network & Infrastructure
i3D.net
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Rotterdam • Netherlands
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About the role
- Set direction with Product and Engineering: Work with product managers, technical leads, and subject matter experts to define clear goals, scope, and timelines for your products and initiatives.
- Run the delivery engine: Lead stand-ups, backlog refinements, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Keep the team aligned, focused, and hitting their milestones without sacrificing balance or wellbeing.
- Drive accountability and quality: Make sure commitments are clear, tracked, and delivered. Guard quality standards and help teams stay predictable in terms of scope, timelines, and outcomes.
- Build and maintain production standards: Shape and improve discipline standards such as roadmaps, milestone plans, requirement documents, test plans, risk registers, post-mortems, and output reporting.
- Manage resources and capacity: Review team capacity, identify skill or staffing gaps, and work with discipline leaders to ensure teams have what they need to deliver.
- Spot and mitigate risks early: Actively manage dependencies, surface issues, and unblock teams before they slow down progress.
- Improve communication across teams: Chair meetings, structure documentation, and run workshops or trainings to help teams collaborate smoothly.
- Coach and develop producers: Support producers in your discipline, help them grow their craft and make sure they consistently apply production standards.
- Track performance and output: Produce metrics on velocity, effort, and team efficiency to help teams and leadership understand progress.
Requirements
- Proven leadership in technical production: You bring 7+ years of project management or production experience, guiding multidisciplinary teams of 15+ people.
- Strong technical delivery background: You have hands-on experience leading projects in areas such as infrastructure, networking, or datacenters.
- Track record of shipping complex projects: You have led and delivered several large technical projects using agile or waterfall.
- Adaptive and people-centered communication: You balance warmth and firmness and adjust your approach to different personalities and situations.
- Excellent stakeholder operator: You work confidently with many types of stakeholders and keep momentum and accountability high.
- Experienced coach: You help others reach discipline standards and tailor your coaching to their needs and experience.
- EU-Work permit and location: This is a hybrid role based in Rotterdam. You must have a valid EU work permit. Please note that this role is not eligible for relocation support and is intended for candidates already based in the Netherlands.
Benefits
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Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementagilewaterfallinfrastructurenetworkingdatacentersmetrics trackingrisk managementcapacity managementproduction standards
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcoachingstakeholder managementadaptabilityteam alignmentaccountabilityproblem-solvingcollaborationmentoring
Certifications
EU work permit