Certification Program Manager

We are on our way to being the first company to power 1 MILLION GPUs and want world-class talent to join our amazing team! The world is moving faster than ever, and yet, it will never move this slowly again. We are at the forefront of an incredible technological revolution but, at its core, it is fueled by incredible people. People like you. 1,000 Global Employees 11k Happy Customers 16 International Offices We’re Looking for the Best and Brightest We are the world’s leading data intelligence platform that reliably accelerates massive datasets for actionable real-time insights. Join our team to help the best and brightest minds tackle the world’s biggest challenges in business, science, medicine, academia and government. Do What Can’t be Done For the past 20 years, our team has kept us at the forefront of storage technology and has provided the foundation for enabling researchers to push the limits of “what can be done.” These innovations take research and discovery to the next level, enabling them to discover cures to disease, observe global warming patterns, model innovative automotive and aerospace designs, discover new sources of energy, make communities safer, and accelerate business results across a wide variety of industries. DDN Helps Build Your Future, Too At DDN, we understand our customers’ diverse needs. Whether you’re a data scientist, IT professional, executive, or researcher, our solutions empower you with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled support. Highly Competitive Vacation Plans Paid Holidays Bonus Programs Tuition Reimbursement Employee Referral Program Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits Paid Leave Programs Anniversary and Recognition Awards Certification Program Manager Location Employment Type Full time Location Type Hybrid Base Salary $170K – $200K The Certification Program Manager will help build DDN's external certification program from the ground up, reporting to Enablement leadership. This role creates the structure, learning paths, assessments, credentialing experience, and operational model that help partners, customers, and field audiences demonstrate readiness on DDN solutions. This is a role for someone who understands that certification is more than a course, a quiz, or a badge. It is a way to define what good looks like, help people build confidence, and create a consistent standard for readiness across the audiences DDN enables. What This Role Is Here to Do You will help turn DDN's product knowledge, solution expertise, technical depth, and go-to-market priorities into certification programs that are clear, credible, and useful. Much of the technical source content you build from comes from DDN's enablement team, including technical explainers and field-ready guides. Your job is to take that content and shape it into structured learning paths, assessments, and credentialing standards. That means working with Enablement, Product, Product Marketing, Sales Engineering, Partner, and GTM stakeholders to define what learners need to know, what they need to be able to do, and how we will know they are ready. You will build certification experiences that can scale externally, including practical exercises, credentialing standards, and reinforcement models. The goal is not just completion. The goal is readiness that can be demonstrated, trusted, and applied. What Success Looks Like DDN has a certification program that is structured, credible, and easy to understand. Learners know what is expected. Partners and field teams can demonstrate readiness. Stakeholders have visibility into participation, completion, pass rates, and gaps. Certifications support real-world application, not just knowledge recall. When this role is working well, certification becomes a trusted signal of readiness. It helps partners, customers, and field audiences understand DDN solutions more clearly, apply what they learn more consistently, and build confidence in how they position, support, and activate DDN in the market. The Work You'll Lead You will build DDN's certification program structure, including certification paths, learning objectives, assessment criteria, completion requirements, and credentialing standards. You will design assessments, knowledge checks, practical exercises, and certification rubrics that measure application, not just recall. You will coordinate certification launches, communications, tracking, and stakeholder readiness so programs are adopted and maintained. Using LMS, enablement platform, and program data, you will track participation, completion, pass rates, and opportunities for improvement, and build the operating model that keeps certification programs current, scalable, and aligned to field, partner, and customer needs. What You Bring Experience building or managing certification, credentialing, learning, enablement, partner education, customer education, or technical training programs Strong ability to structure learning paths, define readiness outcomes, and design assessments that measure whether people can apply what they have learned Clear writing and content development skills, with the ability to turn complex inputs into organized, usable certification materials Comfort working with subject matter experts and cross-functional stakeholders to gather input, validate accuracy, and keep programs moving Understanding of how partners, customers, field teams, and managers use certification and training in real business contexts Strong program management skills, with the ability to manage timelines, dependencies, governance, and reporting Good judgment about what needs to be taught, tested, reinforced, measured, and maintained over time We Build Together We're a team that shows up for each other and for the field. We share what we know, ask good questions, and celebrate wins, big and small. DDN is building something real, and so are we. Compensation Range: $170K - $200K We pride ourselves on our commitment to delivering tangible and consistent results. Regional Director of Sales, Middle East and Africa Let’s Forge a Better Future, Together Explore our current job openings and find the perfect opportunity to advance your career with a company that values expertise, creativity and growth. #J-18808-Ljbffr Data Direct Networks