Senior Technical Program Manager – Lab & Hardware

Ddn; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN is seeking a Technical Program Manager, Lab & Hardware Tracking to coordinate its lab consolidation and hardware build support across engineering programs, ensuring continuity of R&D and timely access to builds, systems, and lab capacity.

You will lead end-to-end lab moves, work with facilities and IT on layout, track milestones and risks, prioritize build requests, and communicate status to engineering leadership.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in technical program management, hardware program management, or lab/data center operations — including a lab move, consolidation, or facility transition
• Demonstrated experience coordinating hardware build schedules and dependencies with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams
• Strong cross-functional coordination skills; comfortable running a multi-workstream plan with competing priorities and hard deadlines
• Experience tracking physical hardware assets/inventory at scale, including through relocation or reconciliation efforts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize status for engineering leadership
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the lab consolidation initiative end to end — sequencing site moves, equipment migration, and decommissioning across teams
• Partner with facilities, IT, and hardware engineering on the consolidated lab layout (power, rack space, network) and migration timeline
• Track milestones, dependencies, and risks; escalating blockers that threaten program timelines or R&D continuity
• Serve as the R&D-side point of coordination for hardware build requests, ensuring engineering has the systems, prototypes, and test equipment it needs
• Track build status and dependencies, proactively flagging risks to program milestones
• Prioritize and sequence competing build and lab requests against program urgency and lab capacity

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Hardware program management

Lab/data center operations

Project tracking

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Technical Program Manager, Lab & Hardware Tracking is the R&D-side point of coordination for DDN's lab consolidation initiative and for hardware build support across engineering programs — keeping consolidation moving without disrupting active R&D work, and making sure engineering has the builds, systems, and lab capacity it needs, when it needs them.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Lab Consolidation Coordination

• Coordinate the lab consolidation initiative end to end — sequencing site moves, equipment migration, and decommissioning across teams


• Partner with facilities, IT, and hardware engineering on the consolidated lab layout (power, rack space, network) and migration timeline


• Track milestones, dependencies, and risks; escalating blockers that threaten program timelines or R&D continuity

R&D Build Support

• Serve as the R&D-side point of coordination for hardware build requests, ensuring engineering has the systems, prototypes, and test equipment it needs


• Track build status and dependencies, proactively flagging risks to program milestones


• Prioritize and sequence competing build and lab requests against program urgency and lab capacity

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8–12 years of experience in technical program management, hardware program management, or lab/data center operations — including a lab move, consolidation, or facility transition


• Demonstrated experience coordinating hardware build schedules and dependencies with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams


• Strong cross-functional coordination skills; comfortable running a multi-workstream plan with competing priorities and hard deadlines


• Experience tracking physical hardware assets/inventory at scale, including through relocation or reconciliation efforts


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize status for engineering leadership


• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Direct experience leading or supporting a lab consolidation, relocation, or data center/facility migration


• Background in enterprise storage, networking, servers, or HPC/AI infrastructure hardware


• PMP or equivalent program/project management certification