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Curate Partners · 1 day ago

Program Manager/Director (seeking heavy data platform experience)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Contract

Hybrid

Director/Executive

Curate Partners is seeking a Program Director to drive the transition of a client data platform from pilot to production readiness. The role involves managing multi-vendor delivery, ensuring audit-defensible execution, and maintaining communication with stakeholders to meet critical deadlines.

Cloud ManagementDigital MarketingInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

Hiring Manager

Nathaniel White

Responsibilities

Own the integrated execution plan across platform, data, security, identity/access, governance, and operations

Coordinate multi-vendor delivery; manage dependencies and critical-path milestones

Run disciplined execution cadence (planning, delivery, risk, decisions)

Define and protect Day One success criteria

Enforce Day One vs. backlog boundaries

Maintain a consolidated execution backlog with owners and timelines

Design and operate a decision-rights model (decision types, owners, escalation, evidence)

Ensure decisions are made quickly, documented consistently, and surfaced appropriately

Maintain traceability auditors and leadership expect

Run structured parent communications: early alignment, material escalation only

Enforce a “no surprises” mandate while keeping execution authority local

Establish an audit-ready RACI across infrastructure, application, data, security, and operations

Consolidate vendor service/sub-service inventories tied to contracts, SLAs, and controls

Surface third-party components early to avoid late-stage risk

Drive critical-path workstreams (notably AuthN/AuthZ/entitlements) to closure by enforcing timelines, inputs, and documentation

Stand up the minimum viable Day One operating model (support, escalation, vendor coordination, onboarding)

Own audit-defensible artifacts: decision log, governance narrative, service catalog, RACI, operating playbooks, readiness assessments

Four clients live in production against Day One criteria

Auth/access decisions finalized, implemented, and tested

Single service catalog and vendor demarcation complete

Governance and evidence pack ready for audit/regulatory inquiry

Day One support model operating with agreed SLAs

Qualification

Data platform experienceMulti-vendor delivery leadershipRegulated environment experienceAudit-quality execution artifactsStakeholder managementExecutive-level communicationDecision-making under ambiguity

Required

Proven success leading 0→1 platform launches in regulated environments

Experience in joint-venture or multi-parent stakeholder contexts

Strong multi-vendor delivery leadership

Fluency across platform, data, security, and operating models (without acting as architect)

Track record producing audit-quality execution artifacts

Ability to impose structure under ambiguity without slowing delivery

Executive-level communication and escalation judgment

Company

Curate Partners

Curate Partners is a specialized recruitment agency that bridges the talent gap in digital transformation.

Founded in 2014

Woburn, Massachusetts, USA

51-200 employees

https://curatepartners.com

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Leadership Team

Ian Hambelton CISSP CISM

Chief Information Security Officer

Vijay Kukreja

Chief Consulting Officer

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