Technical Program Manager, VAST Data
Operations Team
AI operating system
Job no longer available
AI operating system
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower intelligent agents to store, think, communicate, and act.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in program management, HW and SW release programs, or a related field, preferably in a data storage or technology industry
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field is preferred
- Operating systems, like Linux, and system level knowledge is a plus
- Excellent Program Management Skills to manage large and complex programs across many geographies
- Five or more years of experience in an management role, preferably in program management
- Exceptional skills in leadership, time management, facilitation, and organization
- Experience in NetSuite, JIRA, Salesforce and Arena
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including experience with pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and data analysis functions
- Excellent analytical, organizational and problem-solving abilities. Ability to identify, deliver, and follow-up on required corrective actions
- Skilled in coordinating and prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously
- Detail-oriented, self-driven and a self starter
- Experience presenting to executive teams
- Strong deductive reasoning, a logical mind, and a strong ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written forms
- Flexibility working in a startup that’s continually punching above its weight
- Experience with developing and documenting processes and procedures
What the job involves
- Collaborate with the product and engineering teams, for all product releases
- Create and manage product life cycles through the phase gates process
- Maintain calendar of NPI events for cross functional teams
- Drive organizational and strategic objectives and Key Results (KPI) to completion to deliver organization/company goals
- Provides engineering and business process expertise to team and other members on various standard programs / issues.
- Must have hands-on experience with software development, specifically for system software development. . Strong leadership skills
- Drive technical discussions that effectively address cross functional requirements
- Being thorough and the ability to multitask is important. Experience influencing decisions and leading teams in a matrix environment
- Enthusiastic, responsive, and passionate about finding opportunities for process improvement
- Excellent communication and technical presentation skills
- Implement best practices to optimize efficiency, responsiveness and overall business stats
- Ability to think strategically and tactically and to build consensus to make programs successful. Strong problem solving skills, consistently successful implementing systematic solutions
- Develop the project timeline with leads and peers from cross-functional teams, Hardware and Software Engineering teams
- Prepares project plans and drives the project from conception and planning to implementation. Will participate in the development of strategies, processes and resources
- Evaluate and implement impactful process improvements:
- Changes in current business processes
- Integrating automation technology into business processes
- Collaborate with teams and business process owners to support change
- Manage program budget and review with Engineering and finance
- Analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for managers and stakeholders
Our take
VAST Data is building what you might call the plumbing for the AI era - a purpose-built data platform that unifies storage, compute, and data services in a single, scalable system. With its disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) architecture, it allows companies to scale their storage independently from compute, meaning AI workloads can grow without behind held back by infrastructure bottlenecks. And their platform delivers flash-speed performance, multi-protocol access, and enterprsie-grade reliability, all while keeping costs reasonable.
This architecture is especially relevant now and the company has recently partnered with GMI CLoud as a key data infrastructure provider for GMI's ambitious new "AI factory" in Taiwan. The data centre is expected to house 7,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUS and will lean on VAST's exabyte-scale storage to handle data for model training, inference, and real-time processing.
On top of this, VAST has secured some major partnerships and deals that really position it strongly for the future of AI infrastructure. In November 2025, it struck a $1.17B agreement with CoreWeave, making VASt the primary data foundation for their GPU cloud. It also expanded its collaboration with Google CLoud to offer its AI Operating System as a fully managed service, allowsing global data access across on-prem and cloud environments using VAST DataSpace. These moves suggest VAST isn't just keeping up with AI demand but shaping the infrastructure that will power the next generation of large-scale, distributed intelligent systems.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2023
$118m
SERIES E
May 2021
$83m
SERIES D
Total funding: $381m
Leadership
Renen Hallak
(Co-Founder & CEO)BA and an MSc in Computer Science. Prior to co-founding VAST, they led the architecture and development of an all flash array at XtremIO as VP of R&D.
Shachar Fienblit
(Co-FOunder & Chief R&D Officer)BSC in Computer Software Engineering. Prior to co-founding VAST, they were the VP of Engineering at Kaminario before being promoted to CTO.
Jeff Denworth
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding VAST, they were the SVP of Marketing at CTERA Networks and DDN Storage.
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