Program Director
Director, Technical Program Management (EMEA)
To £170,000 + Bonus + Equity
I'm partnering with a fast-growing platform company building the management and orchestration layer for Kubernetes and GPU/AI workloads. They're scaling enterprise adoption across EMEA and need a senior technical program leader to own the most complex customer deployments end to end.
This is deliberately not a people-management-only director role. You'll lead the programs and stay hands-on, in customer architecture discussions, technical planning, escalations, and delivery. If you've moved fully out of the technical detail and don't want to go back, this isn't the one.
What you'll do
- Own strategic enterprise implementations across EMEA onboarding, migration, modernisation, and platform adoption running several concurrent engagements
- Lead customer discovery workshops, architecture reviews, and implementation governance
- Partner directly with customer engineering, platform, DevOps, and executive stakeholders to set scope, align priorities, and unblock delivery
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex deployment challenges and critical risks
- Build scalable delivery processes, methodologies, and program governance as the team grows
- Mentor TPMs and solutions architects and help scale the customer delivery function
What you'll bring
- 10+ years in technical program/project management, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise software delivery
- 5+ years leading enterprise customer deployments involving Kubernetes, cloud-native tech, or AI/ML platforms
- Genuine hands-on depth across Kubernetes, containers, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), networking, and distributed systems
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with executive visibility
- Strong executive communication credible with architects and engineers as well as customer leadership
- Nice to have: PMP, AWS Solutions Architect, CKA/CKAD or equivalent
Interested, or want a confidential chat before throwing your name in? Drop me a message or apply here.