Program Manager(Infrastructure/M&A)

WiredHive; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WiredHive is seeking a senior IT program leader to drive enterprise-wide initiatives across corporate and operating units. You will oversee all Infrastructure related projects for corporate mergers and acquisitions, guiding IT Infrastructure, Security and Acquisition Integration programs with PMs and coordinators.

You will partner with business and technical leaders to identify opportunities, manage risks, and deliver on strategic IT initiatives that impact multiple entities and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years in IT management.
• 3–5 years of leadership of midsize to large teams and influencing senior management.
• Direct experience leading program management over IT Infrastructure initiatives related to M&A.
• Direct experience coordinating with multiple vendors for streamlined communication.

Responsibilities

• Organizes programs and activities in line with IT roadmaps for Infrastructure, Security and Acquisition Integration.
• Develops new programs to support strategic IT directions including mergers and acquisitions.
• Manages program scope, goals and deliverables with senior management and stakeholders.
• Communicates project expectations to team members and executives clearly and promptly.
• Adapts governance framework per deal and ensures SOX/compliance awareness.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Vendor management

Stakeholder communication

IT infrastructure

Security

M&A integration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

M365

Entra ID

Azure

SD-WAN

Endpoint tooling

Job description

This position is responsible for establishing and leading enterprise wide and cross functional strategic IT initiatives for Corporate and our multiple operating units. The position leads all Infrastructure related projects for corporate mergers and acquisitions. The position provides leadership for our IT Infrastructure, Security and Acquisition Integration programs, including the Project Managers and Project Coordinators that support these areas.

The position works closely with business and technical leadership, serving as an expert resource, bringing forth opportunities to better the business and influence decisions regarding business and technical process changes.

The relative importance or seniority of this position is based on the strategic impact of the IT Initiatives assigned, the scope of the implementation and the complexity of the rollout.

What You’ll Do

• Organizes programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization and the Infrastructure, Security and Acquisition Integration roadmaps.
• Develops new programs to support the strategic direction of the organization including all current and future mergers and acquisitions.
• Creates and manages long-term goals.
• Ensures goals are met in areas including customer satisfaction, security, quality and team member performance.
• Implements and manages changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved.
• Meets with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services.
• Analyzes program risks and implements mitigating controls.
• Responsible for program communications.
• Maintains complete autonomy for the management of the initiative to meet the needs of the business, as outlined in the business case and articulated by the steering committee.
• Manages project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion, including C level communication.
• Understands the business benefits of a project by grasping business performance indicators and mapping them to goals of IT projects.
• Proven capability of managing multiple priorities effectively and efficiently with ability to perform under tight deadlines and demonstrate problem solving approach while maintaining strong integrity.
• Manages, and appropriately escalates, delivery impediments, risks and issues including reaching out to the larger company network for impediment removal.
• Adapting the governance framework. The structures that roll ten project plans into one status, risk view and decision log are being built — this person implements and adapts them per deal and improves them incrementally, rather than developing from scratch.
• SOX and security compliance as the gating obligations, assessed first in every deal. Compliance team owns the controls — coordination and awareness only.
• Working familiarity with the standard stack — M365 tenant consolidation, Entra ID, SD-WAN, Azure, endpoint tooling.
• Disposition decisions. Driving adopt / retain / retire / defer to closure with the right stakeholders.
• Coordination beyond the program. Some adjacent systems are owned by teams outside it entirely.
• Repeatable patterns and lessons learned. M&A deal-over-deal reuse is a defining feature of this role.

What You’ll Bring

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 10+ years of experience in IT Industry with an emphasis in management experience, including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Three to five years of leadership responsibility managing midsize to large teams and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders.
• Direct experience leading program management over mergers and acquisitions related to Infrastructure initiatives.
• Direct experience working with multiple vendors to ensure streamlined communication between all parties
• Operational domain knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Security, and Acquisition Integration.