Senior PLM Strategy & Platform Lead

Amazon Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal for PLM to own the PLM system and engineering-change processes across hardware product data. You will lead strategy for product data management, stand up teams, manage integration with ERP and CAD tools, and drive high-stakes PLM platform decisions in front of leadership.

You will work with engineering, manufacturing, and partner teams to ensure the PLM ecosystem scales from a small team to a multi-product family organization, delivering scalable PLM solutions and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Subject matter expertise in Product Line Management (PLM) and/or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

Responsibilities

• Stand Up and Grow the Team: Define the team this function needs, and attract, hire, and develop its members (PLM configuration and application engineers, and business or change analysts) as the work scales.
• Own the PLM Backbone: Act as the business process owner for PLM across all of our hardware; own the PLM environment and the product-data and engineering-change processes that every product team relies on, and set the strategic direction for their evolution.
• Contribute to Enterprise Technology Strategy: Serve as a direct contributor and participant in the organization's enterprise technology stack and strategy, ensuring PLM is designed to work end to end with the surrounding systems (ERP, procurement, design tooling, and future manufacturing and supplier systems) in partnership with the teams that own them.
• Drive the Strategic PLM Path: Lead the analysis and recommendation on the defining question in front of us: whether to adopt the shared enterprise PLM platform and its product configurator capability, or stand up our own PLM to remove the external dependency.
• Drive and Deliver the PLM Build-Out: Act as the technical program owner for creating our PLM system end to end, whether that is continuing within the shared enterprise instance or standing up our own.
• Lead Variant Management and the Product Configurator: Own the requirements, business case, and rollout strategy for the product configurator, the capability that lets the organization deliver equipment variants against firm engineering specifications at scale.
• Own the CAD-to-PLM Architecture: Drive the evaluation and recommendation on the primary CAD platform, balancing integration depth, scalability, migration effort, and team readiness; own the ongoing CAD and PLM vendor relationships, roadmap commitments, and support agreements.
• Engineering Change Management and Business Process Ownership: Define, release, and continuously improve the product-data management, change control, release, and requirements-management processes in PLM across the organization, and drive adoption to sustained usage.
• Compliance and Data Integrity: Own compliance and data governance for the PLM system; ensure product data, bills of materials, and engineering records meet quality, auditability, and security standards.
• Own PLM Integrations and Dependencies: Own the data contracts and integration pathways that connect PLM to the systems around it (enterprise resource planning, procurement, and downstream engineering and manufacturing tools), partnering with the owners of those systems to manage cross-team dependencies.
• Strategic Communication: Build consensus across engineering, manufacturing, finance, and partner teams; communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly and develop the narratives that inform leadership decisions.

Skills

Technical product management

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

ERP/PLM expertise

Education

MBA

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Principal for PLM to own the PLM system and engineering-change processes across hardware product data. You will lead strategy for product data management, stand up teams, manage integration with ERP and CAD tools, and drive high-stakes PLM platform decisions in front of leadership.

You will work with engineering, manufacturing, and partner teams to ensure the PLM ecosystem scales from a small team to a multi-product family organization, delivering scalable PLM solutions and