Key job 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. Set the mission, mechanisms, and standards, and grow the people and structure needed to run PLM over the long term.
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. You will drive this to a decision; final approval rests with leadership up through the senior executive sponsor.
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. Define the implementation roadmap, scope, milestones, and resourcing; manage the systems integrators, cross-team dependencies, and engineering workstreams; mitigate risk and clear blockers; and deliver the platform to production on schedule.
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.
About the team
Administration or related field, or adequate experience in business management
Background in robotics, automation, or advanced hardware-based technological systems
Understanding of supply chain and manufacturing optimization strategies
About the Team
Amazon installs a significant quantity of new buildings every year. The historical model has been to allow each integrator to use their own equipment, controls, subsystems, and methodologies. While that has allowed Amazon to be successful to this point, the variability between buildings has proven difficult to support and scale. One MHS' charge is to build partnerships focused on consistency and scalability across our network of the future. The PLM backbone this team owns is a foundation that makes that scalability possible; it is how we turn one engineer's design into a manufacturable, configurable, compliant product that any of our partners can build.
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
8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
MBA
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, GA, Atlanta - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
USA, MA, Westboro - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
USA, OH, SPRINGDALE - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
USA, TN, Nashville - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
