Production Tooling Product Owner (m/f/d)

In this role you will lead the design and scaling of production tooling systems aligned with end-to-end manufacturing flows and high-volume targets. You will industrialize pilot solutions into standardized deployments across sites, driving automation-first execution and minimizing manual steps. You’ll ensure production-grade operations with robust monitoring and rapid issue resolution, while aligning engineering, IT, CMs, and vendors to a cohesive tooling landscape. This position offers impact through transforming manufacturing tooling to be future-ready and resilient.

• Design scalable production tooling systems aligned to manufacturing flows and targets
• Industrialize pilot solutions into standardized, multi-site deployments with clear ownership
• Drive automation-first execution across quality checks, failure handling, repair, and reporting
• Ensure production-grade operations including monitoring, resilience, performance optimization, and rapid issue resolution
• Align stakeholders across engineering, IT, contract manufacturers, and vendors into a cohesive tooling landscape
• Embed continuous improvement, transparency, and accountability while modeling Integrity values at Advantest

• 8+ years in product ownership, product management, or technical leadership
• Proven track record of building and scaling production ecosystems for high-volume manufacturing with measurable impact
• Strong experience automating and industrializing manufacturing processes across multiple sites or CMs with minimal manual intervention
• Deep understanding of production systems, data flows, and system integration (e.g., MES, analytics platforms, API-based architectures) in complex environments
• Experience owning end-to-end product or system lifecycle from requirements to production operation
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment with engineering, operations, IT, and external partners

• cross-functional collaboration
• transformational leadership
• communication and stakeholder management
• automation and industrialization of manufacturing processes
• deployment of tools across multi-site or CM networks
• production systems and data integration