Principal Technical Program Leader - PLM, One Material Handling System

Own and lead the engineering design and product systems backbone that makes Amazon's in-house material handling business possible. One MHS is building the design, integration, and manufacturing of material handling equipment for Amazon's fulfillment network in-house, and none of it scales without a world-class Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) foundation. As the Principal for PLM, you will own the PLM system and the engineering change process for the organization, and you will be the business process owner for product data and engineering change across all of our hardware: the PLM platform, engineering change management, the connection between computer-aided design (CAD) and PLM, and the way PLM connects to the systems around it.

Where our product teams each own a product line, you own the PLM backbone they all depend on to design, release, configure, and manufacture. You will set the strategy for how the organization manages product data and engineering workflows at scale, stand up the team and mechanisms to deliver it, drive the highest-stakes PLM platform decisions in front of us, and bring clear, data-backed recommendations to leadership for approval.

You are also a direct contributor to the organization's enterprise technology stack and strategy, partnering with the owners of the surrounding systems to ensure the whole ecosystem works together.

Own and lead the engineering design and product systems backbone that makes Amazon's in-house material handling business possible. One MHS is building the design, integration, and manufacturing of material handling equipment for Amazon's fulfillment network in-house, and none of it scales without a world-class Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) foundation. As the Principal for PLM, you will own the PLM system and the engineering change process for the organization, and you will be the business process owner for product data and engineering change across all of our hardware: the PLM platform, engineering change management, the connection between computer-aided design (CAD) and PLM, and the way PLM connects to the systems around it.

Where our product teams each own a product line, you own the PLM backbone they all depend on to design, release, configure, and manufacture. You will set the strategy for how the organization manages product data and engineering workflows at scale, stand up the team and mechanisms to deliver it, drive the highest-stakes PLM platform decisions in front of us, and bring clear, data-backed recommendations to leadership for approval.

You are also a direct contributor to the organization's enterprise technology stack and strategy, partnering with the owners of the surrounding systems to ensure the whole ecosystem works together.

We are a passionate group of innovators, engineers, and business leaders dedicated to reducing variability and complacency in Amazon's logistics systems. This role sits at the center of that mission; the team you stand up and the decisions you drive on PLM architecture, variant management, and engineering change will determine whether our engineering organization can scale from a handful of engineers today to the large, multi-product-family team of the future.

• 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…