Design Systems DX Promotion

This role leads the planning, construction, maintenance, and operation of systems supporting mechanical, electrical, and optical design. The scope includes PLM, CAD, PDM, and related systems within the design domain.

Responsibilities include developing the future vision and roadmap for next-generation design systems, defining requirements, planning data migration, coordinating vendors, and leading projects through implementation and adoption by users. The role also identifies issues in existing systems, executes improvement measures, and optimizes IT costs through activities such as license optimization.

The position coordinates design departments, group companies, and vendors, building a structure for collaboration and consensus-building around new design processes. It supports company-wide digital transformation, software development efficiency and quality improvement, and business change across the Nikon Group.

Required experience includes work involving design systems such as PLM, CAD, or PDM in mechanical, electrical, or optical design, as well as participation in system planning and construction projects including requirements definition and vendor coordination. Candidates must be able to coordinate and communicate with multiple departments and vendors and structure field issues into improvement measures.

Preferred experience includes leading or managing PLM, CAD, or PDM implementation and renewal projects; data migration, standardization, and rollout for large-scale systems; IT cost management and license optimization; global projects involving group companies or overseas locations; and design-process reform or business process transformation.

The position is assigned to the Design Systems Section within the IT Strategy Planning Department of the IT Solutions Division. The section has four members. Remote work is available, with a stated work-from-home utilization rate of 20–40%. Flextime is available. Working hours are 8 hours per day, with a super flextime system, and the stated typical overtime is approximately 10–20 hours per month. Annual holidays total 128 days, with a five-day workweek. The probationary period is three months. Benefits include commuting transportation expenses, social insurance, housing assistance subject to conditions, an employee stock ownership plan, defined-contribution pension, retirement allowance, childcare and nursing-care programs, and club activities.