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Lam Research
Dir, Technical Program Mgmt
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A Director of Program Management directs ongoing program activity, or a group of program managers, for a company or organization. May be responsible for strategic direction.
$194,382 / year median in California
+4% projected growth
Job Description
## The group you'll be a part of The 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. ## The impact you'll make The Director of Technical Program Management and Enterprise Portfolio Delivery is a leadership role responsible for enabling predictable execution, organizational transformation, and business value realization across a portfolio of strategic initiatives supporting three or more business units. Reporting to the Managing Director of Service Product & Program Management, this role oversees a multidisciplinary organization of approximately >25 Technical Program Managers, Scrum Masters, Change Management professionals, and contingent workers while influencing outcomes across a broader global organization of roughly 200 professionals. The Director serves as the executive owner for portfolio governance, risk and dependency management, Agile delivery excellence, organizational change adoption, and cross-functional execution. This leader partners with Directors, Vice Presidents, and key stakeholders to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within approved financial targets, and with measurable customer and business impact. The role is expected to drive continuous improvement, strengthen accountability, modernize delivery practices, and champion AI and automation opportunities that improve organizational effectiveness. ## What you'll do
- Lead approximately 25 TPMs, Scrum Masters, Change Management professionals, and contingent workers.
- Support portfolios across multiple business units.
- Partner with Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Finance, Service, Field Support, PMO and external partners.
- Influence delivery outcomes across a global organization of approximately 200 people.
- Lead strategic program and portfolio execution.
- Own enterprise risk, issue, dependency, and governance management.
- Lead executive reviews, steering committees and portfolio reporting.
- Oversee Scrum Master and Change Management functions.
- Drive Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and hybrid delivery practices.
- Ensure business readiness, stakeholder adoption and value realization.
- Develop talent, organizational capability and succession plans.
- Manage relationships with strategic partners and vendors.
- Champion AI, automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- 15+ years of program, portfolio or TPM leadership experience.
- 7+ years of people leadership experience.
- Strong software program management background.
- Deep expertise in portfolio management, governance and delivery execution.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and hybrid methodologies.
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills. ## Preferred qualifications
- Masters degree in relevant field.
- Enterprise transformation leadership experience.
- Experience leading Change Management and Agile practices.
- Experience with AI, automation and digital transformation.
- Relevant certifications including PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Scrum or Prosci.