Sr Deployment Technical Program Manager

What You'll Do

• Pilot to Production Integration: Take validated technologies and workflows from the lab environment and seamlessly integrate them into pilot deployments at live production facilities.
• Deployment Playbooks: Develop comprehensive, scalable deployment playbooks for hardware installations, facility layout modifications, and labor management transitions.
• Capital Project Execution: Manage the cost, schedule, and risk management of large-scale automation deployments across multiple distribution centers, ensuring minimal disruption to ongoing customer service levels.
• Process Development & Optimization: Re-engineer existing facility processes to accommodate new capabilities like multi-pass picking, dynamic slotting, and co-mingled inventory strategies.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead Lean/Six Sigma initiatives on the warehouse floor to optimize travel distance, material flow, and throughput capacity alongside new automation deployments.
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Create, document, and train local facility management teams and warehouse associates on the new operational standards defined by Stord Labs.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Act as the primary bridge connecting the lab’s core innovation team, local facility General Managers, and Stord’s executive leadership.
• Vendor Management: Oversee on-site hardware vendor installations, site acceptance testing (SAT), and user acceptance testing (UAT) during the pilot and rollout phases.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Management, or complex cross-functional delivery roles.
• Demonstrated experience managing hardware/software integration programs in operational or logistics environments.
• Deep understanding of time-and-motion studies, facility layout (AutoCAD), and physical material flow.
• Strong domain knowledge of supply chain systems, warehouse automation, robotics integration, or fulfillment operations.
• Proven experience leading vendor management processes, including RFPs, evaluation frameworks, and strategic partnership development.
• Strong execution discipline across agile, sprint-based, or similar iterative delivery methodologies.
• Able to travel up to 30% of time supporting rollout.