Head of Digital Transformation & Enterprise Platforms

All Aviation Jobs; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Year-end bonuses

Paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Office lunches

Job summary

Hermeus seeks a Director of Digital Transformation to lead the strategy and evolution of digital platforms across engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise operations. You will own core systems—PLM, ERP, MES, data/BI—driving integrated digital thread, data ownership, and end-to-end information flows.

The role requires strong enterprise-system expertise, leadership of cross-functional teams, and a track record of delivering scalable processes and measurable outcomes in a high-growth environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience across digital transformation, enterprise systems, engineering/manufacturing systems, enterprise architecture, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex digital transformation initiatives within engineering, manufacturing, product development, or similarly technical environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise systems and digital ecosystems, including PLM, ERP, MES, integrations, data, analytics, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience designing and improving cross-system business processes, digital workflows, system integrations, APIs, data models, and system-of-record strategies.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous operational challenges into scalable processes, technical requirements, architectures, roadmaps, and execution plans.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and complex cross-functional initiatives, with strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and vendor/implementation partner management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, roadmap and overall effectiveness of the Company’s core digital platforms, including PLM, ERP, MES, data/BI Automation, and related enterprise applications.
• Lead the company’s digital transformation agenda, identifying and executing high-impact opportunities to simplify processes, reduce manual work, improve data flow, and increase scalability and collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Finance through process redesign, automation, AI and emerging technologies
• Define and advance an integrated digital thread across the product lifecycle, establish clear systems of record, data ownership, enterprise architecture, integration patterns, and end-to-end information flows
• Partner with leaders across the organization to improve critical workflows including product definition, configuration and change management, procurement readiness, manufacturing planning, production execution and quality.
• Lead complex transformation initiatives from problem definition and future-state design through architecture, implementation, adoption, and measurable business outcomes
• Build and lead the teams, operating model, governance, and strategic partnerships required to deliver and scale these capabilities, including technology and AI evaluation, vendor management, prioritization, accountability and executive communication.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Enterprise architecture

Vendor management

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Siemens Teamcenter

NetSuite

SAP

Oracle

Dynamics

Job description

Hermeus seeks a Director of Digital Transformation to lead the strategy and evolution of digital platforms across engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise operations. You will own core systems—PLM, ERP, MES, data/BI—driving integrated digital thread, data ownership, and end-to-end information flows.

The role requires strong enterprise-system expertise, leadership of cross-functional teams, and a track record of delivering scalable processes and measurable outcomes in a high-growth environment.