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Posting Open Date: September 2nd, 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: November 30th, 2025

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Director, Infrastructure Delivery

Fastly is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Manager/Director, Infrastructure Delivery to lead the strategic development and end-to-end execution of global infrastructure deployment projects. This role is critical in defining and delivering capacity to support Fastly's expanding network and services, critical to enabling Fastly’s continued growth, service performance, and market competitiveness.. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in infrastructure program and portfolio management, a strong technical foundation, and experience working cross-functionally with engineering, sourcing, and operations teams, as well as influencing executive stakeholders.

What You'll Do:

• Define, lead, and manage complex, strategic global infrastructure deployment programs from conceptualization and execution planning through final delivery across data centers and network POPs, ensuring alignment with Fastly's long-term network architecture and business objectives.

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders (e.g., engineering, sourcing, legal) and external partners (e.g., data center providers, vendors) at a strategic level to ensure project milestones, capacity targets, and budgets are met, proactively identifying and resolving macro-level roadblocks.

• Design and continuously optimize infrastructure delivery processes to enable scale, reduce complexity, and enhance operational efficiency globally.

• Drive executive visibility through strategic project plans, reporting frameworks, and actionable insights.

• Serve as the primary strategic escalation point for resolving complex, cross-functional project-related issues across internal and external stakeholders, driving systemic solutions and preventing future recurrence.

• Work closely with network design and planning teams to translate long-term strategic build plans into executable projects, ensuring seamless integration with overall business and product roadmaps.

• Drive strategic vendor relationships and negotiations for key infrastructure partnerships, optimizing cost, quality, and delivery timelines.

• Manage significant CapEx and OpEx budgets related to global infrastructure deployment, ensuring fiscal responsibility and maximum ROI.

• Lead, mentor, and develop team members across Supply Chain, Data Center Infrastructure (DCI), and Data Center Planning (DCP), building a high-performing, accountable organization. 

What We're Looking For: 

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure delivery, technical program management, or network deployment within cloud, CDN, telecom, or internet services, with a significant portion in a leadership capacity.

• Experience managing global infrastructure programs and/or portfolios with tight timelines and complex vendor coordination.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through influence and strategic alignment, including other managers.

• Deep understanding of data center technologies, connectivity, and physical infrastructure components.

• Demonstrated success in delivering infrastructure in alignment with network capacity, availability, and latency goals, and their direct impact on critical business outcomes.

• Excellent executive-level communication, organization, and leadership skills, with a proven ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in a content delivery network (CDN), hyperscale cloud provider, or telecom infrastructure provider.

• Knowledge of vendor negotiation and contract execution related to data center builds or network rollouts.

• Experience scaling delivery processes in high-growth or global environments. 

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: This position is a HYBRID role and open to the following office locations:

• San Francisco, CA

• Denver, CO

• New York, NY 

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.  

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office.  However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $228,280.00 to $273,936.00.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days. 

Fastly is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and foster an inclusive environment.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand. 

• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. 

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