Strategic Operations Lead (PM Profile)

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Backblaze The Strategic Operations Lead at Backblaze manages and coordinates large-scale CloudOps infrastructure projects, ensuring timely delivery aligned with business goals. The role involves detailed project planning, risk management, and cross-functional stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities

Project Management & Delivery
Lead and coordinate cross-functional projects and strategic operational initiatives from planning through completion.
Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items.
Track project execution at the task level, ensuring every task has a clear owner and current status to support granular reporting and early risk detection.
Facilitate project meetings, document decisions, assign follow-up actions, and drive items through completion.
Maintain project documentation, status updates, decision logs, and supporting operational procedures.
Partner with stakeholders to define scope, priorities, timelines, ownership, and success criteria.
Project Governance & Stakeholder Coordination
Establish clear project governance, meeting cadence, roles and responsibilities, and decision-making processes.
Coordinate cross-functional planning sessions, project reviews, and stakeholder updates.
Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies; proactively escalate blockers and delays to leadership and support timely resolution.
Communicate project status, schedule changes, decisions, and key impacts to stakeholders.

Qualification

Jira & Confluence knowledgeMicrosoft Office / Google WorkspaceSmartsheet

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
5+years of experience in project/program management, ideally within operations, infrastructure, data center environments, or a related field.
Strong organizational and communication skills.
Familiarity with project management methodologies and practices; PMP or similar certification preferred.

Preferred

Jira & Confluence knowledge
Microsoft Office / Google Workspace
Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or similar project planning tools

Company

Backblaze

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