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About the Role
Open Innovation AI seeks a Program Director to lead large-scale technology programs in Abu Dhabi. You will oversee program governance, delivery, risk management, and stakeholder alignment across multiple workstreams.
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Responsibilities
- Provide senior leadership and accountability for the successful delivery of large scale, multi workstream technology programs
- Lead and manage Project Managers responsible for delivering assigned projects and workstreams
- Establish clear delivery ownership, accountability, and performance expectations across the project management team
- Ensure Project Managers maintain consistent execution discipline, planning quality, governance adherence, and delivery performance
- Define, implement, and continuously improve program governance frameworks, delivery standards, reporting structures, and escalation mechanisms
- Oversee the development and maintenance of integrated master program plans covering scope, schedule, dependencies, milestones, risks, and resource requirements
- Ensure accurate project and program level planning, RAID management, status reporting, meeting records, and delivery documentation
- Chair or lead senior governance forums, steering committees, delivery reviews, and executive reporting cycles
- Consolidate program level risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and mitigation actions across all workstreams
- Act as the senior escalation point for delivery blockers, cross functional dependencies, vendor issues, and customer impacting risks
- Work closely with engineering, architecture, operations, security, commercial, finance, and support teams to align delivery plans, dependencies, risks, and required decisions
- Coordinate technical and non technical stakeholders without replacing functional ownership or directly managing engineering resources
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field
- 15+ years of experience in technology, infrastructure, platform, systems integration, or large scale delivery environments
- Minimum 7–10 years of experience in program management or senior project delivery capability
- Proven experience leading and managing Project Managers in complex delivery environments
- Strong technical background or technical delivery experience
- Proven experience delivering large scale, multi workstream, multi vendor technology programs
- Strong understanding of project and program governance, including integrated planning, RAID management, milestone tracking, change control, and executive reporting
- Demonstrated ability to establish and run senior governance forums, steering committees, delivery reviews, and executive reporting cycles
- Strong customer orientation with the ability to manage expectations, build trust, and maintain delivery confidence
- Results oriented mindset with the ability to drive execution, remove blockers, follow up on commitments
- Strong people management, leadership, coaching, and performance management skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, operations, security, commercial, finance, vendors, and customers
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Company Description
- Open Innovation AI is a global technology company that specializes in developing advanced solutions for managing AI workloads. Its flagship product, the Open Innovation Cluster Manager (OICM), orchestrates complex AI tasks efficiently across diverse infrastructures.
Role Responsibilities
- Provide senior leadership and accountability for the successful delivery of large scale, multi workstream technology programs.
- Lead and manage Project Managers responsible for delivering assigned projects and workstreams.
- Establish clear delivery ownership, accountability, and performance expectations across the project management team.
- Ensure Project Managers maintain consistent execution discipline, planning quality, governance adherence, and delivery performance.
- Define, implement, and continuously improve program governance frameworks, delivery standards, reporting structures, and escalation mechanisms.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of integrated master program plans covering scope, schedule, dependencies, milestones, risks, and resource requirements.
- Ensure accurate project and program level planning, RAID management, status reporting, meeting records, and delivery documentation.
- Chair or lead senior governance forums, steering committees, delivery reviews, and executive reporting cycles.
- Consolidate program level risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and mitigation actions across all workstreams.
- Act as the senior escalation point for delivery blockers, cross functional dependencies, vendor issues, and customer impacting risks.
- Work closely with engineering, architecture, operations, security, commercial, finance, and support teams to align delivery plans, dependencies, risks, and required decisions.
- Coordinate technical and non technical stakeholders without replacing functional ownership or directly managing engineering resources.
Qualification, Experience, Competence and Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
- 15+ years of experience in technology, infrastructure, platform, systems integration, or large scale delivery environments.
- Minimum 7–10 years of experience in program management or senior project delivery capability.
- Proven experience leading and managing Project Managers in complex delivery environments.
- Strong technical background or technical delivery experience, with the ability to understand infrastructure, platform, security, integration, and operational dependencies.
- Proven experience delivering large scale, multi workstream, multi vendor technology programs.
- Strong understanding of project and program governance, including integrated planning, RAID management, milestone tracking, change control, and executive reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and run senior governance forums, steering committees, delivery reviews, and executive reporting cycles.
- Strong customer orientation with the ability to manage expectations, build trust, and maintain delivery confidence in complex environments.
- Results oriented mindset with the ability to drive execution, remove blockers, follow up on commitments, and ensure measurable delivery outcomes.
- Strong people management, leadership, coaching, and performance management skills.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, operations, security, commercial, finance, vendors, and customers.
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