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Salary: USD 190,920 - 354,480 / annual
Veeam Software is seeking a Program Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering to support complex data governance, privacy, and data/AI security deployments across large, hybrid enterprise environments. You will partner with Forward Deployed Engineers to coordinate delivery activities, milestones, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment from deployment through adoption. Your role is to provide the operating structure that enables FDEs to focus on technical ownership, solution architecture, integration, and automation, while translating technical progress into clear business-facing updates for customers, executives, and internal teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support end-to-end delivery of complex FDE-led data governance, privacy, and data/AI security projects, aligning scope, milestones, adoption goals, and customer outcomes
- Enforce project management controls to proactively identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring issues are escalated or resolved promptly with clear leadership communication
- Utilize project management tools and AI tools to improve automation, track progress, report on milestones and project status, and flag risks, issues, and dependencies
- Coordinate customer stakeholder engagement across technical, business, privacy, legal, and executive audiences to confirm decision owners, unblock dependencies, align expectations, and maintain momentum through complex deployment phases
- Develop and maintain working knowledge of Securiti AI solutions, deployment methodology, common data governance and privacy use cases, and FDE delivery patterns
- Translate technical concepts into clear business language to support project deliverables and timelines
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, protecting over 550,000 customers worldwide. The company specializes in data resilience and data security posture management, built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk.
Requirements:
- 3+ years in technical project management, delivery management, consulting, implementation, or customer-facing product ownership roles
- Ability to excel in high-paced environments working with cross-functional teams on multiple customer engagements concurrently
- Familiarity with data security, cybersecurity, or enterprise IT deployments strongly preferred
- Technical understanding of system architectures, APIs, and cloud environments to hold meaningful trade-off discussions with engineers
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex technical projects with clear ownership, structure, escalation discipline, and customer-facing accountability
- Effective communication with both technical and non-technical audiences in written and verbal formats, with ability to influence and drive consensus
- Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, MS Project, Asana, Jira, PSA tools)
- Understanding and experience with AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude)
Bonus skills:
- CAPM or PMP certification
- Background with projects centered on DSPM, CSPM, DLP, data governance, or privacy platforms
