Enterprise Skills Architect & Program Lead

LAM RESEARCH Corporation; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lam Research Corporation seeks an experienced Skills Architect Program Manager to design and govern the enterprise skills framework, ensuring taxonomy integrity, role-based profiles, and proficiency models. You’ll lead governance, validation sessions, and roadmap initiatives across HR platforms.

You will translate workforce insights into scalable skills solutions, partner with HRIS and technology teams, and deliver actionable data to inform upskilling and reskilling across Lam.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in skills architecture, talent management, job architecture, workforce development, learning, HR technology, or a related field.
• Experience designing or significantly enhancing enterprise skills frameworks, taxonomies, or role-based skills models.
• Experience translating business and workforce requirements into scalable skills solutions.
• Experience facilitating skills discovery and validation with SMEs, HR partners, and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Design and continuously evolve Lam’s enterprise skills architecture, including taxonomy structure, proficiency levels, definitions, relationships, and role-based skills profiles.
• Establish architecture standards and governance criteria for creating, modifying, consolidating, and retiring skills.
• Plan and facilitate skills discovery, design, and validation sessions with business and functional stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements and SME input into architecture recommendations, decisions, and implementation plans.
• Maintain the roadmap, backlog, dependencies, decision log, and implementation priorities.
• Monitor adoption, assessment, and taxonomy-health data to improve the skills framework and employee experience.

Skills

Skills architecture

Program management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Eightfold

Cornerstone

Workday

SuccessFactors

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Lam Research Corporation seeks an experienced Skills Architect Program Manager to design and govern the enterprise skills framework, ensuring taxonomy integrity, role-based profiles, and proficiency models. You’ll lead governance, validation sessions, and roadmap initiatives across HR platforms.

You will translate workforce insights into scalable skills solutions, partner with HRIS and technology teams, and deliver actionable data to inform upskilling and reskilling across Lam.