Integration Operations Coordinator (opens in new tab)

Boston Dynamics; Waltham, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Paid time off

Annual bonus

Job summary

Boston Dynamics is seeking an Integration Operations Coordinator to act as the control tower for customer integration projects in the IPM organization. You will oversee master schedules, allocate resources, and align engineering capacity with program demand to optimize utilization and customer outcomes.

The role partners with Solution & Integration Leads to staff projects, build portfolio dashboards, and integrate manufacturing lead times into timelines, while coordinating cross-functional

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project scheduling, resource allocation, program operations, or professional services operations.
• Hands-on experience with project scheduling tools.
• Experience building operational dashboards and reporting suites.
• Experience managing scheduling dependencies involving hardware lead times and cross-functional handoffs.

Responsibilities

• Develop, monitor, and update baseline timetables, milestones, critical paths, and task sequences across complex customer integration projects.
• Partner with leads to analyze staffing needs and proactively plan allocations balancing client and internal requirements.
• Allocate resources to FAEs and IPMs based on capabilities, project complexity, and utilization targets.
• Oversee team assignments across field teams to ensure diverse project exposure and readiness.
• Interface with manufacturing and supply chain to track lead times and hardware availability in schedules.
• Build and maintain portfolio dashboards tracking metadata, engagement types, and utilization.
• Forecast capacity and balance workloads across teams to minimize bottlenecks.
• Coordinate cross-functional touchpoints with Finance, Legal, Business Operations, Logistics.

Skills

Project scheduling

Resource allocation

Program operations

Professional services operations

Dashboard reporting

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

Smartsheet

Cetinia

Job description

The **Integration Operations Coordinator** serves as the central control tower for customer integration projects, driving master project scheduling, capability-matched resource allocation, and operational efficiency across the integration portfolio. Sitting within the Integration Project Management (IPM) organization, this role bridges engineering capacity with program demand, partnering with Customer Solution & Integration Leads to understand upcoming staffing needs, including the nature of assignments and required team capabilities. They oversee staffing of integration teams to projects, balancing customer, business, and individual needs, while working with leadership to make thoughtful staffing decisions that balance customer experience and utilization. First and foremost a staffing and resource allocation role, it consults with direct managers regarding project types, career aspirations, technical capabilities, industry vertical exposure, and specific needs for customer and travel assignments. Direct people management responsibilities remain with individual managers, while this role focuses strictly on managing staffing and scheduling across the portfolio.Beyond core scheduling, this role will own cross-functional operational touchpoints across Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, and Business Operations. They will integrate manufacturing lead times and finished goods availability directly into project timelines, build portfolio-level dashboards, track integration finances, manage internal CSI assets, and leverage systems/tooling to streamline and automate integration workflows.**Key Responsibilities** * **Schedule Creation & Master Timelines:** Develop, monitor, and update baseline timetables, milestones, critical paths, and task sequences across complex customer integration projects using tools (Smartsheet, Cetinia, etc.).* **Strategic Staffing & Leadership Alignment:** Partner closely with Customer Solution & Integration Leads to analyze upcoming customer integration pipelines, understand staffing needs, including assignment details and required team capabilities, and proactively plan allocations while balancing client, office, and individual needs.* **Capability-Based Resource Allocation:** Partner with Customer Solution & Integration Leads to make thoughtful staffing decisions matching Field Application Engineers (FAEs) and Integration Project Managers (IPMs) to customer engagements based on technical capability annotations, project complexity, client service, target utilization, retention, and individual travel availability.* **Workload Readiness & Assignment Diversity:** Oversee operational readiness and integration team assignments across field teams, continuously monitoring active and historical assignments to help ensure FAEs and IPMs gain exposure to a variety of projects, diverse technical challenges, customer environments, and professional experiences.* **Manufacturing Lead-Time & Hardware Integration:** Interface directly with manufacturing and supply chain teams to track lead times, hardware availability, and finished goods inventory; incorporate hardware readiness dates directly into project scheduling and staffing decisions.* **Portfolio Tooling, Dashboards & Analytics:** Build, maintain, and optimize portfolio-level dashboards tracking project metadata, engagement types, engineer utilization, bench capacity, and critical path risks to drive operational insights.* **Resource Load Balancing & Capacity Forecasting:** Monitor team workload, analyze historical data, and build forward-looking capacity models to balance resource loads and forecast future staffing needs.* **Cross-Functional Interfacing:** + **Finance:** Track project burn rates, integration portfolio finances, and milestone billings. + **Legal:** Coordinate on integration contracts, Statements of Work (SOWs), and legal documentation. + **Business Operations:** Partner on internal process streamlining, workflow optimization, and operational efficiency initiatives. + **Logistics & Assets:** Align customer order shipment dates with engineer site arrivals, and manage tracking for internal Customer Specific Integration (CSI) assets.**Core Competencies** * **Systems-Driven & Automation Mindset:** Passion for building scalable processes, eliminating manual overhead, and automating scheduling and reporting workflows through tooling.* **Meticulous Attention to Detail:** Exceptional precision in tracking hardware availability, contract status, resource schedules, and complex dependencies without losing sight of critical paths.* **Cross-Functional Orchestration:** Ability to serve as a high-touch operational interface across technical managers (FAE/IPM), corporate leads (Finance/Legal), and supply chain teams.* **Data & Portfolio Analytics:** Strong capability to turn project metadata into actionable dashboards, capacity forecasts, and operational insights.* **Strategic Resource Balancing:** Strong judgment in weighing project urgency, technical requirements, travel loads, and engineer career growth.**You Must Have** * 5+ years of experience in project scheduling, resource allocation, program operations, or professional services operations.* Demonstrated hands-on expertise with project scheduling tools* Proven track record of building operational dashboards and reporting suites* Direct experience managing complex scheduling dependencies involving hardware lead times, resource capabilities, and cross-functional handoffs. **We Value** * Background in management consulting, resource staffing, or field engineering operations.* Familiarity with hardware supply chain workflows, finished goods tracking, and Statements of Work (SOWs) / legal contract execution.* Strong interest in workflow automation, process optimization, and building \"control tower\" operational systems with a strong interest in AI tools and agentic workflows.* Experience balancing resource and travel load**Work Authorization*** Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. Boston Dynamics cannot sponsor visas for this role.The pay range for this position is between $102,000 to $130,000 annually. Base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors including, but not limited to internal equity, job related knowledge, skills and experience. This range represents a good faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Boston Dynamics offers a generous Benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401(k), paid time off and a annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.