Lab Operations Manager

We are seeking a high-driven, results-oriented multidisciplinary orchestrator to act as the primary catalyst for our development infrastructure. In this role, you will operate at the critical intersection of product strategy, hardware engineering, and lab operations, serving as the connective tissue that aligns disparate teams under a unified goal. You will be responsible for driving cross-functional alignment across the organization, effectively managing stakeholders with differing ownership to ensure infrastructure roadmaps scale alongside product milestones. This position requires a self-starter comfortable pushing for success in ambiguous environments, where you will translate high-level strategy into the tactical execution of the physical and virtual ecosystems that power our development lifecycle.

Your Impact

You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of infrastructure projects, ensuring that our Sanity Test Beds and development environments are optimized to meet aggressive product launch timelines. By bridging the gap between engineering roadmaps and infrastructure requirements, you will serve as the engine that ensures our teams have the right resources at the right time, regardless of technical or organizational complexity.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Orchestration & Alignment

Unified Roadmap Integration: Translate complex product development roadmaps into long-term infrastructure requirements, driving cross-functional alignment between silicon milestones and lab availability.
Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between hardware engineering, software development, procurement, and lab operations; navigate competing priorities among stakeholders with differing ownership to keep teams synchronized.
Ambiguity Management: Proactively identify project roadblocks and navigate ambiguous environments to push critical-path dependencies to resolution.
Operational Velocity: Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure processes, identifying and removing friction to increase overall engineering velocity.
Operational Oversight & Execution

Strategic Capacity Planning: Lead high-stakes capacity management efforts, forecasting needs for power, rack space, and compute resources to proactively eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks.
Lifecycle Ownership: Oversee the full lifecycle of infrastructure projects-from initial procurement and technical specification through deployment, validation, and transition to operational readiness.
Visibility & Reporting: Drive the development of dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide real-time visibility into infrastructure health, ensuring data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Vendor & Asset Optimization: Partner with cross-functional leadership to manage technical specifications, equipment lead times, and hardware lifecycles, ensuring a high-performance, cost-effective infrastructure footprint.