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Production Tooling Product Owner (m/f/d)

Are you seeking answers and opportunities for your future? At our site in Böblingen you will find both as

Production Tooling Product Owner (m/f/d)

• Home-Office
• Market leader
• International impact

Advantest – We enable tomorrowʻs technology.

• Market leader
• Hightech-High-tech semiconductors
• International impact

IoT, 5G and Artificial Intelligence. Unthinkable without us. More than half of all the microchips produced worldwide first pass through our hands. As the global market leader of automated test systems in the semiconductor industry we help the world to realize the digital transformation, enable our customers to shape the future and offer you the exciting jobs intended for pioneers. You work in international teams with a high degree of personal responsibility and short communication channels.

Your Responsibilities

• Design scalable production tooling systems aligned to end-to-end manufacturing flows, HVM targets, and CM operational constraints
• Industrialize solutions from pilot to standardized, multi-site deployment with minimal customization and clear ownership
• Drive automation-first execution, eliminating manual steps across quality checks, failure handling, repair, and reporting
• Ensure production-grade operations, including monitoring, resilience, performance optimization, and rapid issue resolution
• Align stakeholders and ecosystems, integrating engineering, IT, CMs, and vendors into a cohesive, future-ready tooling landscape
• Ownership & Integrity
• Embed continuous improvement, transparency, and accountability while role‑modelling Advantest INTEGRITY values

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Computer Engineering or a related technical field; a Master’s degree is a plus.
• 8+ years in product ownership, product management, or technical leadership.
• Proven track record of building and scaling production ecosystems for high-volume manufacturing, with demonstrated impact on throughput, quality, or efficiency
• Strong experience in automation and industrialization of manufacturing processes, including deploying tools across multiple sites or Contract Manufacturers with minimal manual intervention
• Deep understanding of production systems, data flows, and system integration (e.g. MES, analytics platforms, API-based architectures) in complex industrial environments
• Experience owning end-to-end product or system lifecycle, from requirements translation through deployment and stable operation in production-critical environments
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment and transformation, working with engineering, operations, IT, and external partners to deliver scalable production solutions

Our offer

• Flexibility
• Development
• Fitness
• Security

Flexibility: Flexible and trust-based working hours, 30 vacation days + option for additional vacation days, mobile working, individual part-time models and programs for extended periods of absence

Benefits:

• Attractive salary, share in Advantest´s success through our exceptionally appealing bonus program as well as numerous subsidies, discounts and offerings (e.g. bike leasing)

Development: Structured onboarding programs and mentoring, development discussions, technical and soft skill trainings, language courses and knowledge sessions

Fitness: Ergonomic working environment, sports and fitness options and events (e.g. Global Challenge) as well as health days

Security: Attractive company pension scheme, comprehensive insurance coverage and support in emergency situations

Insights into our work environment

Would you like to know more about jobs at Advantest and about our unique team spirit? Our employees offer you their personal insights into our working environment. Would you like to take a closer look how our working environment in Boeblingen or Amerang looks like? Here you can take a short virtual 360° tour of our company – click the image to get to know us better.

Contact

If you have any questions, Ann-Kathrin Rupp will be happy to answer them.

Take your next career step with us!