Director, Program Management – Release & Portfolio Orchestration (AI, Core & Data Platform)

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

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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