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What the role is about:  

Teradata has announced its Autonomous Knowledge Platform, bringing together a powerful ecosystem of products across our unified platform to enable customers to achieve outsized business outcomes. 

We are seeking a Director of Program Management to define and lead the release management operating rhythm across this portfolio. This role will ensure a connected, cohesive release story across products that span multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments, with complex interdependencies. 

You will establish the structure, governance, and execution model required to orchestrate integrated releases, ensuring that product components come together seamlessly into customer-ready solutions. 

Key Responsibilities 

Release Strategy & Operating Rhythm 

• Define and implement the end-to-end release management operating model across our platform including AI and data platform elements  

• Establish a consistent release cadence and governance framework across globally distributed teams 

• Drive velocity of our releases through  continuous, automated release cadences 

Portfolio & Dependency Orchestration 

• Orchestrate release planning across products with deep interdependencies, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and platform teams 

• Create and manage integrated release plans spanning multiple form factors (multi-cloud, hybrid, on-prem) 

• Ensure a single, cohesive customer-facing narrative for each release 

Release Architecture & Packaging 

• Define release components including Bill of Materials (BOM) and map them to customer-specific deployment packages 

• Ensure releases are tailored to different infrastructure footprints and customer environments 

• Partner with Product and Engineering to align packaging with customer value realization 

Execution Excellence & Risk Management 

• Drive predictable, high-quality releases with reduced deployment risks and improved reliability 

• Establish mechanisms for automated rollbacks, fail-safes, and release readiness validation 

• Identify and mitigate risks across cross-functional programs 

Metrics, Insights & Continuous Improvement 

• Define and track KPI-driven release analytics, including Release velocity, Change failure rate, Deployment success and rollback metrics 

• Use data-driven insights to continuously improve release efficiency and quality 

Leadership & Capability Building 

• Serve as a matrixed regional leader for program management talent in India 

• Build and scale program management capabilities, practices, and talent pipelines 

• Coach and mentor program managers to operate effectively in complex, global environments 

• Serve as the regional matrixed people leader for India-based team members within the Product Partnerships, Operations, and PMO organization 

Impact This Role Has 

• Faster, more frequent release cycles  

• Reduced deployment risk and improved release quality  

• Increased predictability and reliability of releases  

• Adoption of continuous delivery and automation practices  

• Clear, measurable improvements in release KPIs (velocity, failure rate, etc.) 

What Success might look like:   

• Acts as a strategic integrator, aligning execution with enterprise priorities 

• Drives clarity in complex, ambiguous environments 

• Builds high-performing teams and fosters a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement 

• Operates with a strong customer-first mindset, ensuring releases translate into real business value 

• Champions innovation in program management and release practices 

Who will you work with on the team:   

This requires someone adept at integrating efforts and activities across many leadership levels and organizations, including regular engagement with managers and senior leaders from product management, product engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, field/sales enablement, technical enablement and more.   

Who this position reports to:   

This role reports to the Senior Director, Partnerships Delivery / Program Management. 

Qualifications & Core Competencies 

• 12+ years of experience in program management, with significant experience in enterprise software or platform delivery 

• Proven leadership in release management, platform orchestration, or large-scale product delivery 

• Experience managing complex portfolios with interdependent products and systems 

• Strong understanding of modern release practices (CI/CD, DevOps, continuous delivery) 

• Demonstrated success in driving operational transformation (manual → automated / continuous release models) 

• Expertise in dependency management across global, cross-functional teams 

• Strong analytical mindset, with experience defining and tracking operational KPIs 

• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills 

• Experience working across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments 

• Proven ability to lead in a matrixed organization and influence without direct authority 

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Experience in integrations with external partners such as ISVs or technology alliances  

• Familiarity with data platforms, cloud, or analytics ecosystems  

• Agile certifications (Scrum, SAFe) or PMP preferred 

• Experience delivering customer-facing features, integrations, or platform capabilities  

• Advanced degree preferred 

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