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Overview

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Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly's edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers' applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly's customers include many of the world's most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

Fastly is building a more trustworthy Internet. Posting Open Date: September 2, 2025. Anticipated Posting Close Date: November 30, 2025.

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 and Location

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, remote candidates within the US may be considered. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary and Benefits

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 include medical, dental, and vision insurance; family planning and mental health support; Employee Assistance Program; life, disability, and accident insurance; Flexible Vacation; up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave; 401(k) with company match; Employee Stock Purchase Program; and holidays and wellness days.

Equal Opportunity

Fastly is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and foster an inclusive environment. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities as needed during the application process.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach and engages with open source initiatives and causes important to employees.
• We love distributed teams. We have multiple offices globally and offer in-person onboarding in San Francisco for new hires.
• We value diversity and inclusion, enabling authentic self-expression every day.
• We are passionate and encourage individuality and varied interests among our employees.

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!