PLM Program Director

Capgemini • Chicago, IL

18h • Remote

About The Position

Capgemini is looking for a PLM Program Director to lead enterprise-scale PLM modernization programs for strategic North America clients. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can bring executive confidence, delivery discipline, commercial ownership and a trusted-advisor mindset to complex engineering and digital continuity transformations. You will shape outcomes that connect engineering, manufacturing, IT, operations and suppliers—while helping clients modernize the platforms and ways of working that power product innovation.

Requirements

• 20+ years leading complex engineering, IT or digital transformation programs, including enterprise PLM delivery at scale.
• Program Director-level experience with multi-year, multi-site, multi-vendor programs and executive client accountability.
• Strong commercial ownership across budget, revenue, margin, forecasting, scope, change control and contractual commitments.
• Experience with major PLM platforms such as Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE, Aras or comparable solutions.
• Proven ability to combine delivery leadership with advisory, pre-sales, solution shaping, executive value articulation and account growth.
• Experience leading onshore–offshore delivery models across North America and global delivery locations.

Nice To Haves

• Engineering-intensive or regulated industries such as Aerospace & Defense, automotive, industrial manufacturing, energy or medical technology.
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, PLM platform certification or equivalent program leadership certification.
• Tier-1 consulting or systems-integration leadership, including executive advisory, vendor-partner delivery and delivery-led account growth.
• Multi-site PLM rollouts, Digital Thread transformation, AI-powered software factory delivery, augmented engineering or agentic-ready platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, multi-year PLM transformation and Digital Continuity programs from mobilization through deployment, adoption and stabilization.
• Serve as the executive-facing leader for client sponsors, program owners, Capgemini leadership and technology partners.
• Own delivery governance, financial performance, risk management, scope control, change governance and value realization.
• Mobilize and lead blended onshore–offshore teams with clear accountability, quality gates, productivity controls and transparent hand-offs.
• Create structure across integrated plans, dependencies, milestones, backlog, burndown, executive reporting and decision forums.
• Drive advisory and delivery-led sales, including opportunity shaping, solutioning, proposals, renewals and follow-on growth.
• Embed AI-powered PLM practices, including AI-accelerated delivery, AI-assisted migration and testing, software factory approaches and augmented-engineering readiness.
• Build trust with clients and teams through authentic, adaptive communication, emotional awareness and the ability to read the room.
• Bring executive presence, client centricity and strategic perspective to complex decisions, risks and trade-offs.
• Maintain delivery balance through strong structuring discipline across scope, backlog, dependencies, primary and secondary tasks, burndown and reporting.
• Convert delivery credibility into renewal readiness, follow-on growth and long-term client value.
• Lead with One Capgemini, end-to-end ownership mindset across teams, geographies, partners and stakeholders.

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
• Company paid holidays
• Personal Days
• Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed