(Onsite Location: Austin, Texas – expectation for 3 or 4 days a week on a client site). Travel to other client sites domestically and globally may be required.

Provide program-level oversight for portfolio, spanning regional budget management and end-to-end delivery accountability from feasibility studies through closeout. Serve as the first point of triage for all asks, delegating work to local PMs while mobilizing the required cross-functional partners and external delivery teams (e.g., GCs and architects) to produce rapid feasibility studies (scope, schedule, cost) for stakeholder decision-making.

Ensure disciplined program governance and consistent delivery practices across active projects, maintaining stakeholder alignment and providing escalation support to keep work on track and compliant with broader program objectives.

Typical project examples include highly technical retrofits in engineering spaces. This role requires a hands-on Real Estate & Construction Program Manager who can lead MEP-intensive capital projects in a live hardware engineering R&D environment (server and microchip test/validation labs). Success depends on technical fluency across power, cooling, controls, and lab constraints (vibration/EMI, cleanliness/ESD), paired with disciplined day-to-day field execution—phasing work around active testing, coordinating shutdowns, managing vendors/trades, and removing blockers quickly.

The ideal candidate is strong in scope, schedule, and cost control, with tight change management and clear decision documentation. They lead with safety and risk management, communicate impacts early to prevent downtime surprises, and maintain a high bar through commissioning, validation, and operational handover so the facility performs reliably under real operating conditions.

What you will do:

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of projects and programs within a PMO framework, from
• initiation through delivery and closeout.
• Define project and program objectives, scope, milestones, success metrics, and delivery
• roadmaps aligned to Meta’s strategic priorities.
• Coordinate multiple interdependent projects, ensuring consistent application of PMO
• controls functions (cost, schedule, change, risk, and reporting).
• Establish and maintain strong program governance, including forums, decision
• pathways, escalation processes, and assurance activities.
• With Project Manager/s, Own program level financial management, including budget
• control, forecasting, cost tracking, and variance analysis.
• With Project Manager/s, manage program risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring
• proactive mitigation and transparent communication.
• Produce clear, data driven reporting and analytics to support executive decision making.
• Partner with client teams and delivery partners to manage interfaces,
• responsibilities, and outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the PMO team.
• Lead and performance manage teams of project managers and supply chain partners in
• project and program delivery.
• Drive a culture of ownership, empowerment and accountability across teams.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 8-10 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. PgMP or PMP certifications preferred

Strong PMO and program management expertise in complex, multi-workstream

environments.

• Ability to solve unique problems using standard and innovative solutions having a broad impact on the business.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Expert organizational skills with an advanced inquisitive mindset.
• Highly sophisticated math skills. Ability to calculate somewhat complex figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.

Desired Skills:

• Strong ownership mentality, with ability to performance manage teams into achieving
• strong outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate confidently with
• senior client and supplier leadership.
• Advanced financial and cost management capability, including forecasting and controls.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, pace, and change in a dynamic technology led
• environment.
• Proven capability to lead crossfunctional teams without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of governance, controls, and assurance models.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple concurrent projects with complex
• dependencies.
• Experience working with global, matrixed organizations and demanding client
• stakeholders.
• Professional certification in program or project management (e.g. MSP, PgMP, PMP,
• PRINCE2, or equivalent) is desirable.
• Outcome focused, resilient, and comfortable operating at pace.
• Confident, credible, and able to challenge constructively.
• Detail oriented while maintaining a strong strategic perspective.