Mgr, Product Owner

## The group you\u2019ll be a part of\n\n \n\nThe Customer Support Business Group focuses on enabling our customers with premier customer support throughout their lifecycle with Lam. We drive performance, productivity, safety, and quality of customers installed base performance and deliver service and lifecycle solutions for their most critical equipment and processes.\n\n \n\n## The impact you\u2019ll make\n\nThe Product Owner Manager within the Product Management \u0026 Experience (PME) team is a senior Product Owner who combines strong product ownership with people leadership. This role continues to directly operate within a defined PO execution scope while also coaching, developing, and supporting a group of Product Owners who operate independently across distinct product surfaces. Acting as a force multiplier for PO quality and consistency, the PO Manager relies on clear signals, sound judgment, and lightweight mechanisms to support their team. The ideal candidate brings deep PO craft credibility, prior direct people management experience, a continuous improvement mindset, and the confidence to work with matrixed stakeholders across engineering, UX, product management, and leadership levels.\n\n## What you\u2019ll do\n\n## Execution \u0026 Craft\n\n * Act as a practicing Product Owner by translating product strategy and business intent into clear priorities, actionable backlogs, and delivery outcomes within a defined execution scope.\n * Create and maintain high\u2011quality backlog artifacts\u2014including user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting requirements\u2014to enable efficient, low\u2011ambiguity execution by engineering teams.\n * Lead metrics\u2011driven prioritization and tradeoff decisions, ensuring daily execution aligns with broader product and business goals.\n * Serve as the primary execution decision\u2011maker, providing timely clarification and resolving ambiguity for engineering and design partners.\n * Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and blockers, determining when to intervene directly versus when escalation is necessary.\n\n\n\n## People Leadership \u0026 Functional Stewardship\n\n * Manage, coach, and develop Product Owners through regular feedback, performance management, and support for skill growth and role mastery.\n * Ensure consistency and quality across independently operating Product Owners using lightweight governance, sound judgment, and exception\u2011based intervention rather than continuous oversight.\n * Partner with product management, engineering, and UX leadership to surface systemic issues, align expectations, and continuously improve Product Owner practices across the organization.\n\n\n\n## Who we\u2019re looking for\n\n * Technical background - A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical work experience; advanced degree is a plus but not required.\n * 8+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager, with substantial hands-on responsibility for backlog ownership, prioritization, and execution for engineering teams.\n * 2+ years of direct people management experience, including coaching, performance feedback, and ongoing development of individual contributors. \n * Experience delivering enterprise software, B2B products, or data / analytic product platforms in complex organizational environments. \n * Strong understanding of Agile methodology and supporting frameworks with ability to apply them pragmatically in real delivery environments.\n * Demonstrated ability to operate as a player-coach, balancing personal PO execution with people leadership responsibilities.\n * Proven effectives working with matrixed stakeholders across multiple business users, product management, engineering, UX, and leadership.\n\n\n\n## Preferred qualifications\n\n * Experience with Jira, or other requirement management software\n * Advanced Agile or scaling frameworks certification\n * Exposure to Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework \n\n\n\n## Our commitment\n\nWe believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.\n\nLam Research (\"Lam\" or the \"Company\") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company\u0027s intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.\n\nLam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories \u2013 On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. \u2018On-site Flex\u2019 you\u2019ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. \u2018Virtual Flex\u2019 you\u2019ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.\n\n#LI-BW2 \n\nSalary\n\nCA San Francisco Bay Area Salary Range for this position: $125,000.00 - $270,000.00.\n\nThe above salary range for this position is relevant to applicants that reside or work onsite in the California, San Francisco Bay Area only. Salary offers will depend on factors that include the location you work from, your level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience and comparison to other employees already in this role. Actual salary may vary from salary offered due to numerous factors including but not limited to unpaid time off, unpaid leave, company mandated shutdown, and other relevant factors.\n\nOur Perks and Benefits \n\n\nAt Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That\u2019s why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits.\n