Set the Americas geographic portfolio strategy within global cloud and AI planning frameworks. Develop an integrated long-range capacity roadmap, compare new-region investments with existing-region and zone expansion, and recommend the sequence of opportunities based on customer impact, resilience, economics, feasibility, and time to market. Integrate regional demand and supply planning with market, customer, geopolitical, and infrastructure signals. Surface capacity variances, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation options early. Apply creative problem solving, scenarios, and sensitivity analysis to challenge assumptions, develop alternatives, preserve supply optionality, and make trade-offs explicit. Manage and develop the Americas program management team. Set clear expectations and priorities, delegate meaningful ownership, coach empathetically, provide actionable feedback, and create growth opportunities. Foster an inclusive culture where people can raise concerns and learn from setbacks, while holding the team accountable for commitments and outcomes. Align direct reports and cross-functional partners around integrated regional plans of record, decision milestones, and common measures of progress, reconciling competing priorities across strategy workstreams. Lead cross-functional business-case development with Finance and infrastructure partners. Bring together Azure, Energy, Land, Lease, Network, MCAPS, and CELA perspectives, including sourcing and acquisition options where relevant, while keeping technical assessments, procurement, and execution accountability with the respective functional owners. Represent the Americas portfolio with GM, VP, and CVP stakeholders. Exhibit urgency with judgment: anticipate dependencies, proactively remove blockers, identify decision owners and approval paths, and escalate unresolved trade-offs early without bypassing necessary controls. Own the regional executive narrative, frame recommendations, secure alignment, close decisions, and track outcomes against recorded commitments. Drive pre-execution strategy decisions and clean handoffs to delivery teams, documenting rationale, remaining risks, and accountable owners without duplicating construction, energy procurement, or delivery ownership. Seek feedback, learn from outcomes, and eagerly experiment with, adopt, and evolve program management processes leveraging AI tools for analysis, planning, and reporting. 7+ years of cross-functional program or product management experience, bringing multiple disciplines together to deliver complex business outcomes. Infrastructure experience, supply planning experience, and business strategy experience, with the ability to connect capacity constraints, demand outlooks, and investment choices into actionable plans. 7+ years of experience using data and analysis to inform strategy, investment choices, or operational decisions. Eagerness to experiment with, adopt, and evolve program management processes using AI tools, with responsible data handling, validation of outputs, and human judgment. 7+ years of leadership in a business-critical function, with accountability for priorities, stakeholder alignment, and outcomes. Demonstrated urgency with sound judgment and proactive blocker removal, creative problem solving under ambiguity, and a growth mindset shown through seeking feedback, learning, and adapting. 3+ years managing program management teams. Demonstrated passion for managing and developing people through empathetic coaching, clear expectations, effective delegation, growth opportunities, and team accountability, while fostering an inclusive culture and collaborating across organizational boundaries. 10+ years of experience leading end-to-end mission-critical infrastructure programs, including cloud infrastructure planning or geographic expansion strategy. Experience developing regional cloud or AI infrastructure strategies and investment business cases that integrate capacity, market demand, infrastructure feasibility, and financial trade-offs. Experience across Americas markets and with land, power, network, leasing, or acquisition considerations, partnering effectively with specialists who own those disciplines. Demonstrated ability to influence executive decisions, lead teams and cross-functional partners through ambiguity, and translate complex portfolio choices into clear recommendations and measurable outcomes. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: