Director, PLM

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 226,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Health, dental, vision insurance

Employee discounts

Paid time off and holidays

Sick leave and parental leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Director of Global PLM in San Francisco. This hybrid role requires 3 days in the office weekly and leads the global Product Lifecycle Management strategy to scale across markets, ensuring data integrity and efficient product releases.

You will drive cross-functional change management, streamline ECO workflows, and own the BOM strategy while partnering with software vendors to maximize ROI and align with corporate growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of leadership in high-growth, global corporations.
• Experience scaling digital transformations across multinational contexts.
• Multisite and multicultural scope across multiple time zones.
• Executive presence with ability to translate complex data lifecycles into business value.
• Operational breadth linking product data to global supply chain dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain a Global PLM strategy that supports expansion into new markets and regulatory environments.
• Develop processes for data integrity, configuration management, and scalable ECO workflows.
• Bridge cross-functional teams (Design, R&D, Supply Chain) to govern product lifecycle and release gates.
• Own high-level BOM management and ensure synchronization across design hubs and manufacturing partners.
• Manage relationships with software providers and implementation partners; oversee PLM budget.

Skills

Leadership

Executive presence

Global scaling

Multisite/multicultural

Strategic communication

Job description

Our mission at the company is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their the company Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

The Director of Global PLM is a strategic business leader responsible for the integrity, scalability, and lifecycle of the company’s hardware product data. This role allows the company to scale into a high-volume, multi-category global corporation. You are the executive owner of the "Single Source of Truth," ensuring that global design, supply chain, and manufacturing teams operate with maximum velocity and zero data-related risk.

This is a hybrid position based in San Francisco requiring 3 days per week in the office.Strategic Leadership & Corporate Scaling

• Digital Transformation Roadmap: Define, lead and maintain a Global PLM strategy that anticipates corporate expansion into new markets, regulatory environments, and complex product portfolios.

• Enterprise Scaling & Governance: Further develop the processes and solutions for data integrity and configuration management that allow for increase in simultaneous development programs and production volume without adding organizational friction.

• Cross-Functional Change Management: Serve as the high-level bridge between Design, R&D, Supply Chain, etc to promote global Engineering Change Order (ECO) workflows and product release gates.

Global Operational Ownership

• Global Configuration Strategy: Own the high-level logic for multi-level Bill of Materials (BOM) management, ensuring seamless data synchronization between international design hubs and global manufacturing partners.

• Strategic Vendor & Budget Management: Manage the executive-level relationships with software providers and implementation partners. Own the PLM CAPEX/OPEX budget and ensure the technology stack delivers a high ROI for the global business.

• Organizational Data Policy: Maintain the global policies for part numbering, revision control, and intellectual property protection to ensure long-term data durability.

• Advanced Digital Innovation: Champion the integration of AI within the product lifecycle to ensure the global PLM ecosystem acts as an intelligent catalyst for business velocity.

Technical & Operational Leadership

• Hands-on Operational Excellence: Demonstrate deep experience in the daily operative tasks of a PLM team—including BOM auditing, ECO processing, and system administration—to effectively mentor the team and identify process bottlenecks from the ground up.

• Team Technical Empowerment: Lead by example in the tactical execution of data migrations and system integrations, ensuring the leadership vision is grounded in the practical realities of hardware and software engineering workflows.

• Process Troubleshooting: Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical data issues, utilizing past operational experience to drive rapid resolution of roadblocks in the product release cycle.

Strategic Requirements

• Leadership Experience: 10+ years of leadership in high-growth, global corporations, with a proven track record of managing PLM as a business function rather than a technical tool.

• Scaling Expertise: Significant experience leading large-scale organizational change or digital transformations that supported rapid international corporate growth.

• Multisite-multicultural scope: Experience in driving development and operational front over multiple timezones.

• Executive Presence: Exceptional ability to translate complex data lifecycles into business-value narratives for the C-Suite.

• Operational Breadth: Deep understanding of the intersection between product data and global supply chain dynamics, including contract manufacturing and international logistics.

Benefits

At the company, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at the company has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages

• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources

• An the company Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family

• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off

• Paid sick leave and parental leave

the company takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

San Francisco Salary Range: $226,100 - $266,000

A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)

the company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at the company are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.