Program Manager – Emerging Technology

Job Summary

The Program Manager Emerging Technology coordinates and manages complex multi-disciplinary research programs that span multiple business units research domains and external partnerships. The roles primary purpose is to remove organizational and logistical friction so domain scientists can focus on research and ensure dependencies budgets and timelines across teams stay visible and aligned.

This position will be based onsite at our Westerville OH location.

Responsibilities:

• Program Coordination: Own end-to-end delivery of 23 large research programs; establish timelines milestones and cross-team dependencies; escalate blockers to leadership.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate planning meetings across Research Scientists Research Engineers Data Engineers and external partners (universities vendors contract labs); ensure alignment on objectives and resource needs.
• External Resource Management: Coordinate with external labs academic partners vendors and contract researchers; manage SOWs timelines deliverables and communication.
• Budget & Resource Tracking: Monitor program spend resource allocation across internal and external teams and forecast variances.
• Status & Reporting: Maintain program dashboards; provide leadership with visibility on health risks and upcoming milestones.
• Cross-BU Coordination: Work with product/commercial teams to ensure research roadmaps align with business priorities; unblock resource conflicts between business units.
• Risk Management: Identify dependencies critical path risks and resource constraints early; develop mitigation plans.

Preferred Areas of Technological Focus:

• Thermal Management and Advanced Cooling Systems
• Data Center Infrastructure and Architecture
• Power Systems and Power Conversion
• Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Solutions
• High-Performance Computing (HPC) Environments
• Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering Technology Management or related technical discipline.
• MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
• 5-7 years of program or project management experience in technology critical infrastructure data center power systems energy storage thermal management or related industries.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional technology development or product commercialization programs.
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure technologies including power thermal digital management or energy systems.
• Experience with NPDI methodologies.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of DFSS FMEA requirements traceability and technology readiness frameworks preferred.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 Microsoft Project Smartsheet and Power BI.

Preferred:

• Background in engineering science or technical field (degree or 5 years hands-on experience).
• Experience managing research programs or innovation initiatives.
• Familiarity with academic partnerships or contract research organizations.
• Background in data center thermal management power systems or related industries.

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