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Sr. Manager, Program Controls

SR. MANAGER, PROJECT CONTROLS

THE COMPANY:

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

THE POSITION:

STACK is seeking an experienced Program Controls Manager to develop the Delivery Program Management Office (PMO) Controls objective. The Program Controls Manager provides leadership and oversight of program-level controls, ensuring consistent, accurate, and timely management of cost, schedule, and performance data across construction programs. This role partners with VP Construction Program, project teams, Finance, and Cost Management to establish, maintain, and govern program controls that support informed decision-making and successful project execution.

Key responsibilities include developing and managing program budgets, schedules, and forecasting processes, establishing cost and schedule control standards, and overseeing program-level reporting, variance analysis, and performance metrics. The Program Controls Manager works closely with the Cost Manager to integrate cost data, support funding and governance reviews, and ensure alignment between budgets, forecasts, and approved baselines. The role also includes oversight of change management, risk and contingency tracking, and EML reporting, as well as administration and continuous improvement of program controls systems and processes. The Program Controls Manager plays a critical role in maintaining data integrity, identifying trends and risks, and ensuring that program execution adheres to established controls, governance requirements, and reporting standards.

This role will support STACK’s full construction portfolio encompassing multiple product and delivery types. This role will continually assess project and portfolio delivery performance to define, implement, adopt, and audit controls (cost, schedule, & quality) and reporting that enable extreme visibility into both project and portfolio performance while enhancing certainty in delivery outcome. The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Lead, develop, train, and manage a project controls team of cost managers and schedulers (both internally and through partnership with our external service providers).
Create and deliver presentations to internal and external stakeholders, effectively communicating project delivery status and risk mitigation strategies.
Conduct regular project reviews and analysis, identifying critical path activities, potential delays, cost impacts, and opportunities for optimization.
Provide leadership, strategic direction, and decision-making across the portfolio, ensuring program alignment with client objectives and its adherence to STACK’s operational and strategic goals.
The successful candidate should be comfortable and able to provide executive-level reports to internal and external stakeholders that include performance updates, risk identification and mitigation, and recovery plans while also contributing as the individual contributor role when needed to support individual projects.
Collaborate with Preconstruction, Construction Finance and Development teams to give feedback and deliver necessary project data to support visibility, forecasting, and baselining.
Define Key Performance Indicators, dashboards, and deep dive analyses that enable concise articulation of project and portfolio performance and decision making.
Implement strategies and policies that maintain firm grasp and real-time awareness of project and portfolio risks and exposures.
Increase adoption and consistent use throughout the Delivery portfolio of Project Controls tools through documentation, training, and follow-through support.
Ability to manage multiple projects and collaborate with internal staff, and external consultants, vendors, and other stakeholders.
Proficient in Microsoft Office product suite, Bluebeam, OnScreen Takeoff and industry standard estimating and scheduling software.

THE DETAILS:

Location: Remote
Travel: 25% Domestic US
Compensation: $182,000 to $204,000 annually with 10% annual bonus potential
Must be eligible to work in the United States
Must pass comprehensive background screening.

MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, or a related field.
8-10 years of progressive experience leading project or portfolio controls programs, with a focus on multiple large-scale, complex projects.
Experience successfully managing a cross-functional, geographically dispersed team

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Experience with data center or mission-critical facility construction is highly desirable.
5+ years in data centers or other mission critical facilities

THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:

You are a strong communicator, you are persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making.
You do not get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
You are a team builder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
You are naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.

WHY STACK?

We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts – even a cell phone subsidy.
We foster a culture of appreciation, including peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
We’re growing – this is a great time to join and make an impact!

Please submit applications no later than April 11,2026

STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law

Note to External Agencies: We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/CVs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to STACK Infrastructure will NOT be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of STACK Infrastructure, Inc.

Job ID: 10329

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