Industrial Partnerships Program Director (Remote Eligible) (Oak Ridge, TN, US, 3

Requisition Id 17061

Annual Salary Range: $175,000.00 - $225,000.00
Work-Site Type: Remote

ORNL offers a flexible work environment that supports both the organization and the employee. In addition, this position is considered remote-eligible for ORNL in pre-approved locations. Remote-eligibility is not a continued guarantee and could be subject to change based on evolving organizational needs.
Note about pay range:

Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. Many factors are taken into consideration when setting starting pay. Salary for this position will be commensurate with the final candidate’s qualifications and experience, including skills, knowledge, relevant education, certifications, plus also aligned with the internal peer group. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range for a position. Link to benefits.
Overview:

We are seeking an experienced profession to lead ACCEL ( A ccelerating C ompetitiveness through C omputational E xce L lence), an industrial partnerships program within the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). This position can be on-site, remote, or hybrid. Selection will be based on qualifications, relevant experience, skills, and education. NCCS provides state-of-the-art computational and data science infrastructure coupled with dedicated technical and scientific professionals tackling large-scale S&T challenges across a broad range of scientific domains for accelerating scientific discovery and engineering advances. NCCS hosts the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, one of DOE’s National User Facilities which operates Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer.
Purpose

The Program Director of ACCEL will collaborate across other sections in the division and directorate to strategically advance the ACCEL industry partnership program so that it continues to be recognized as the premier industrial partnerships program for leadership computing within the DOE. Consistent with ORNL’s culture, historical leadership, and continued vision to be the world’s premier R&D institution for computational science, the Program Director will foster relationships with ambitious industry partners so that they can collaborate with ORNL’s flagship computational ecosystem.

The candidate must be able to interact comfortably with both corporate and laboratory researchers, laboratory management, and industry C-suite executives who often are the decision makers that permit their research teams to use national laboratory computing systems to solve competitively important corporate science and engineering problems. ACCEL’s Program Director also serves as an ambassador for the lab and the leadership computing facility to industry and may be the first person to ever inform a company that they may qualify for access to OLCF resources.
Major Duties/Responsibilities:

- Grow the industrial partnerships program by identifying and cultivating new industrial users for the OLCF resources.
- Understand the different allocation programs to apply for time on the OLCF systems and their requirements and be able to discuss these clearly with potential new industrial users so they can determine if they might qualify to receive an allocation.

- Understand the legal agreements required to use the OLCF resources and be able to explain these generally in advance to potential new users. (Note that if an award is made, OLCF has an experienced on-boarding team that will lead a new user through each step.)

- Nurture current OLCF industrial users to ensure they continue to bring their large-scale computational problems to OLCF. - As relationships with industry users grow, identify potential areas for scientific collaboration between industry and the researchers within OLCF and the broader computing directorate, and bring relevant parties together to explore and decide on specific collaborative projects.

- Understand the OLCF science impac