Manager, Digital Transformation - Design Quality

The Office of Digital Transformation at Lam Research is responsible for creating next-generation business processes and accelerating technology adoption across the company. This role offers a unique opportunity to transform a market-leading semiconductor company to scale for past and future growth during an unprecedented time in the industry.

About the role

Join Lam as a Digital Transformation Analyst, where you'll be at the forefront of revolutionizing our organization's digital landscape. As part of the Office of Digital Transformation, you'll play a critical role in creating next-generation business processes and accelerating technology adoption. With your expertise in developing and implementing strategic plans, you'll enhance employee and customer experiences, improve operational efficiency, and boost overall productivity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the vision, design, development, and deployment of critical Quality workstream processes.
• Embed quality principles across the product lifecycle and partner with other workstreams to deliver an integrated, closed-loop Quality Management System (QMS).
• Promote a quality-first, no-fault-forward mindset across the business.
• Serve as the quality champion within the Idea to Retire (I2R) workstream and sub-groups.
• Partner with stakeholders to capture, define, and prioritize quality requirements that support transformation goals.
• Shift effectively between strategy, planning, and execution across project phases to deliver program and workstream objectives.
• Champion the transformation project's governing principles and drive consistent future-state solutions across capabilities and workstreams, ensuring they are simple, efficient, and scalable.
• Act as a cultural change agent by involving, engaging, and influencing stakeholders; promote open communication and guide stakeholders through change.
• Transform digital tools and systems to provide end-to-end quality visibility and redesign processes to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and connect data and intelligence.
• Understand enterprise data flows and system connectivity to enable insight-driven decision making.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent experience, with 6–8 years of management experience.
• MBA or master's degree preferred.
• Experience in engineering or consulting, with strong knowledge of operational processes, systems, tools, improvement initiatives, process digitalization, and digital transformation in leading or fast-growth companies.
• Strong storytelling skills to drive organizational change management.
• Demonstrates exponential thinking and incremental execution.
• Understands industry best practices and applies them in real-world settings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in product design and end-to-end quality strategy for product design and development.
• Semiconductor equipment design and/or manufacturing experience is a plus.
• Experience with requirements management, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design for X, and related product development tools.
• Product engineering quality certifications, such as Design for Six Sigma, are a plus.
• 8+ years of quality experience using critical tools such as Pareto Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Statistical Process Control, and FMEA.

Pay

Salary range for this position in the California, San Francisco Bay Area: $114,000.00 - $253,000.00. Salary offers depend on factors including location, level, education, training, specific skills, and years of experience. Actual salary may vary due to factors such as unpaid time off, unpaid leave, company-mandated shutdowns, and other relevant considerations.

Benefits

At Lam, we invest in our employees throughout the phases of their lives with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits.