Senior Program Manager - WAN (Wide Area Networking)
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About the role
We're looking for a Senior Program Manager (WAN) to lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of our wide-area networking initiatives. This role is critical to ensuring Nscale's backbone, interconnects, and regional expansions are delivered on time, at scale, and with high reliability. You will drive complex, cross-functional programs spanning network engineering, data center operations, vendors, and commercial teams.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end WAN program delivery
- Lead large-scale initiatives such as backbone expansion, new region bring-up, capacity upgrades, and network optimization.
- Coordinate cross-functional execution
- Align network engineering, infrastructure, SRE, procurement, and external vendors to deliver against timelines and milestones.
- Build and manage program plans
- Develop detailed project plans, track dependencies, identify risks, and ensure on-time delivery.
- Manage vendors and partners
- Coordinate with carriers, IXPs, and hardware providers to ensure timely provisioning and issue resolution.
- Track performance and readiness
- Ensure WAN deployments meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements before production rollout.
- Drive operational excellence
- Implement processes, tools, and reporting to improve execution, visibility, and predictability.
- Communicate with stakeholders
- Provide clear, regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on progress, risks, and outcomes.
Requirements
- Experience5-10+ years in program or project management, ideally in networking or infrastructure
- Experience delivering large-scale WAN, telecom, or data center programs
- Background working with cross-functional technical teams
- Networking familiaritySolid understanding of WAN concepts (e.g., BGP, routing, capacity planning, fiber, peering)
- Ability to work effectively with network engineers and vendors
- Execution excellenceProven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs
- Strong planning, risk management, and dependency tracking skills
- Vendor managementExperience working with carriers, ISPs, or infrastructure vendors
- CommunicationStrong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Experience with hyperscale or cloud infrastructure environments
- Familiarity with AI/ML or HPC infrastructure requirements
- Experience with network deployment at global scale
- PMP, PgMP, or similar certifications
- Why Join Nscale
- Work on critical infrastructure powering AI and high-performance workloads
- High-impact role with visibility across the organization
- Opportunity to shape how large-scale network programs are executed
- Salary Range
- $140,000 - $220,000 USD
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Senior Program Manager - WAN (Wide Area Networking) Nscale is building next-generation infrastructure to power high-performance computing and AI workloads at scale. We operate at the intersection of networking, compute, and distributed systems-delivering reliable, high-throughput platforms for the most demanding applications.
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