Hybrid Senior Manager, Regional Startup Operations

at Symbotic

• Job title: Senior Manager, Regional Startup Operations
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $118,000 - $163,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager overseeing start-up operations for automated warehousing solutions. Leading site launches and operational projects within defined regions.

Responsibilities

• Own regional start-up projects from kick-off through close-out, ensuring execution aligns with program-level objectives and enterprise expansion plans.
• Serve as the senior decision-maker and escalation point for all regional launch issues, risks, and dependencies.
• Provide leadership in high-ambiguity environments, creating structure and clarity where little exists while guiding site teams toward successful outcomes.
• Develop and refine new processes, tools, and standards that support launch repeatability, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 4–6 Start-Up Managers, ensuring they are equipped to execute launch activities for their respective sites.
• Provide coaching, performance feedback, and career development for start-up talent, fostering a high-performance culture across the region.
• Align workload, staffing, and resource needs across multiple simultaneous projects to ensure effective launch readiness.
• Act as the primary company representative with vendors, contractors, suppliers, and installation partners during project execution.
• Enforce EXOL safety, quality, and performance expectations with all external partners.
• Coordinate and sequence material flow, equipment installation, and vendor timelines that are interdependent across multiple functions.
• Serve as the single-threaded leader overseeing onsite construction activities, ensuring they remain aligned with schedules, design intent, and operational requirements.
• Validate that all infrastructure requirements are included in design packages and coordinated with engineering, facilities, IT, and automation stakeholders.
• Confirm installation work meets EXOL standards for safety, quality, timeline, and budget.
• Manage regional start-up budgets, including creating and approving purchase orders, tracking spend, and forecasting financial needs.
• Contribute to the development of comprehensive launch budgets during project conception and support revisions as scope evolves.
• Ensure all projects are delivered within approved budget frameworks while maintaining full transparency.
• Own the regional project schedule, ensuring each site is positioned to meet critical milestones, customer readiness targets, and Go-Live commitments.
• Monitor, track, and report progress on all site activities, highlighting key risks, dependencies, and potential impacts to cost or timeline.
• Escalate issues rapidly when support is required, and mobilize company resources by collaborating closely with engineering, safety, robotics, CI, supply chain, and IT.
• Actively ensure that all vendor and EXOL safety policies are followed during construction, installation, and start-up activities.
• Drive corrective actions for any safety or compliance deviations and ensure safe execution remains a core expectation across all projects.
• Participate in initiatives to standardize start-up processes, documentation, launch playbooks, and best practices across the region.
• Capture lessons learned from launches and proactively integrate improvements into future execution models.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to strengthen upstream design, installation processes, and operational readiness workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, or equivalent experience preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive operations, project, or supply chain leadership experience in warehouse, distribution, manufacturing, or logistics environments.
• Experience overseeing multiple site launches, large-scale operational projects, or regional initiatives, including construction readiness, installation, go-live, and stabilization phases.
• Demonstrated experience leading managers or senior operations leaders across geographically distributed sites.
• Exposure to automated or highly mechanized warehouse environments, including material handling systems, robotics, or WMS/WES platforms preferred.
• Experience managing regional or multi-project budgets, schedules, and resource planning across overlapping timelines.
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills with the ability to serve as the senior escalation point for launch risks, delays, and operational issues.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and deliver results in high-ambiguity, fast-growth environments.
• Demonstrated capability to standardize processes, build launch playbooks, and drive repeatable execution models.
• Strong understanding of safety, quality, and compliance requirements in construction, installation, and operational start-up environments.
• Ability to partner effectively with engineering, construction, IT, automation, safety, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to track progress, identify risks, and implement corrective actions across sites.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including vendor and contractor oversight.
• Comfortable working in physically active industrial environments and traveling extensively (75–90%) during launch cycles.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• disability
• 401K
• PTO