Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.
Vantage is building a product platform approach for data center delivery: repeatable reference designs, governed variants, and a closed-loop learning system that turns each deployment into an upgrade for the next.
The Senior Director, Product Performance leads the global performance engine that measures outcomes and drives continuous improvement across cost, schedule, quality, readiness, and adoption. This role owns cost optimization, cost and schedule baselining and benchmarking, and cross-functional coordination of sustainability and supply chain performance inputs into product decisions, including performance analytics and governance for capital-intensive delivery, from baseline definition through benefits realization.
What you’ll do
· Establish global baselines and benchmarking for cost and schedule, with clear definitions and consistent measurement points.
· Build a trusted performance system that connects targets vs actuals with structured variance and root-cause insights.
· Drive cost optimization by translating performance signals into product levers: standards updates, approved variants, supplier requirements, and repeatable release improvements.
· Coordinate sustainability and supply chain performance inputs into product trade-offs and outcomes (including availability, long-lead commonality, and measurable operational impacts).
· Create executive-ready performance narratives that enable fast, high-quality decisions across a complex global portfolio.
· Partner closely with Finance, Procurement, Engineering, Delivery, Operations, and regional deployment teams to ensure insights translate into measurable outcomes with a single source of truth for product performance reporting.
· Establish a benefits-realization and post-investment review loop for major platform changes and approved variants.
What success looks like
· Leadership teams use a consistent, trusted set of performance metrics for decisions and corrective actions.
· Cost and schedule outcomes improve measurably over successive deployments, supported by evidence-based baselines and repeatable optimization.
· Sustainability and supply chain signals are incorporated into product choices early, improving predictability and reducing late-stage churn.
What we’re looking for
· 12+ years of experience leading performance analytics, governance, and optimization in scaled, capital-intensive environments (product analytics, value engineering, cost and schedule governance, portfolio performance, or strategy and finance/operations in scaled environments).
· Strong quantitative capability (metrics, benchmarking, variance analysis) plus the ability to translate insights into decisions and action.
· Cross-functional leadership across Finance, Procurement, Engineering, and delivery teams; comfort operating in ambiguity and creating clarity.
· Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrialized construction, energy, or other capital-intensive engineered products preferred.
· Experience implementing or improving ERP reporting systems and related analytics to enable decision-grade performance transparency is a plus.
We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.
Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.
Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Vantage Data Centers does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm agencies. 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 Vantage Data Centers.
