Senior Deployment Technical Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Transition validated technologies and workflows from the laboratory setting into pilot implementations at active production sites.

• Create detailed, scalable deployment guides for hardware setups, modifications to facility layouts, and transitions in labor management.

• Oversee the budget, timelines, and risk assessments for large-scale automation implementations across various distribution centers, ensuring that ongoing customer service levels remain largely unaffected.

• Redesign existing facility processes to integrate new capabilities, such as multi-pass picking, dynamic slotting, and co-mingled inventory strategies.

• Spearhead Lean/Six Sigma initiatives on the warehouse floor to enhance travel distance, material flow, and throughput capacity in conjunction with new automation implementations.

• Develop, document, and provide training for local facility management teams and warehouse personnel on the new operational standards established by Stord Labs.

• Serve as the key liaison connecting the lab’s core innovation team, local facility General Managers, and Stord’s executive leadership.

• Supervise on-site hardware vendor installations, site acceptance testing (SAT), and user acceptance testing (UAT) during both pilot and rollout phases.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related technical field.

• Over 8 years of experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Management, or complex cross-functional delivery positions.

• Proven experience managing hardware/software integration projects within operational or logistics settings.

• In-depth knowledge of time-and-motion studies, facility layouts (AutoCAD), and physical material flow.

• Strong expertise in supply chain systems, warehouse automation, robotics integration, or fulfillment operations.

• Demonstrated experience in leading vendor management processes, including RFPs, evaluation frameworks, and development of strategic partnerships.

• Strong execution discipline across agile, sprint-based, or similar iterative delivery methodologies.

• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time to support rollouts.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• 401(k) matching

• Professional development opportunities