Skill
Lean
Business and Management
Lean is a management philosophy and set of practices focused on maximizing customer value while minimizing waste in processes, originally developed from the Toyota Production System. It is applied broadly across manufacturing, software development, and service industries by professionals seeking to streamline workflows and improve efficiency.
Lean in the job market
Last checked October 27, 2026
- Open roles
- 77
- Employers
- 43
- Median pay
- $125,000
- Disclose pay
- 74%
on Career App
hiring for it
from 57 roles
of these roles
Open roles requiring Lean (77)
Plant Manager
Snap-on
Carol Stream, IL · $140,000 – $160,000
This role leads a 40-person manufacturing facility producing torque products, combining strategic oversight with hands-on operational management to drive safety, quality, and profitability. It suits experienced operations leaders with a manufacturing background who can drive continuous improvement while building a strong team culture.
Listed on Snap-on’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Knowledge AI Quality Lead
Tripadvisor
Office
This role oversees quality assurance for AI-powered customer support systems at Tripadvisor, testing chatbots and automated workflows to catch accuracy failures and ensure smooth handoffs to human agents. It suits someone with contact-center or tech support QA background who can audit AI conversations, identify problems, and feed improvements back to engineering teams.
Listed on Tripadvisor’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Director, Domestic Fulfillment
GOAT GROUP
Los Angeles, CA · $141,920 – $208,600
Lead operational strategy and execution across GOAT's US and Canada fulfillment network, building systems and developing site management teams to drive consistent performance across multiple locations at different maturity levels. This role suits experienced warehouse operations leaders who diagnose root causes, establish accountability structures, and develop managers into autonomous problem-solvers rather than relying on escalation.
Listed on GOAT GROUP’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Regional Learning Manager, Learning Operations
Hims and Hers
Full-time · US Remote · $140,000 – $150,000
This role leads learning and development strategy across Hims & Hers' pharmaceutical operations in the West region, managing a team and ensuring compliance training in regulated healthcare environments. It suits experienced L&D leaders with pharmacy expertise who thrive in complex, multi-site healthcare settings.
Listed on Hims and Hers’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Legal Operations Program Manager
Bend Studio
Full-time · San Mateo, CA · $149,800 – $224,600
Sony Interactive Entertainment seeks a program manager to lead strategic initiatives across the legal department's technology platforms and operational systems. The role bridges legal needs with IT and business partners, owning roadmaps for contract lifecycle management, eBilling, matter management, and emerging AI tools while driving process improvement and standardization.
Listed on Bend Studio’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Clinical Integrity Manager
Cohere Health
Full-time · United States · $96,000 – $125,000
This is a hands-on clinical operations role for someone with deep healthcare expertise to serve as a bridge between clinical strategy and product delivery at a health plan technology company. You'll own clinical requirements, testing, and governance while working cross-functionally to ensure the company's platform meets regulatory and clinical standards.
Listed on Cohere Health’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Project Manager (Chromatography Solutions, Medical Device, NPD)
Beckman Coulter
Full-time · $111,500 – $125,000
Lead cross-functional teams to deliver new medical device products from concept through launch, managing schedules, budgets, and regulatory requirements in a matrix environment. This role suits experienced project managers in life sciences who can drive stage-gate discipline and translate technical complexity into executable plans.
Listed on Beckman Coulter’s careers site · Apply there ↗
North America Logistics Execution Program Manager
NVIDIA
Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $136,000 – $276,000
NVIDIA seeks a logistics execution leader to design and optimize end-to-end material movement across their expanding North America network. This role combines program management, process improvement, and performance accountability across transportation, inventory, and 3PL partnerships in a high-growth semiconductor environment.
Listed on NVIDIA’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Software Engineer Senior Principal - Reliability Engineering (Remote)
The Home Depot
GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01 · $170,000 – $280,000 · Remote
This senior leadership role focuses on designing resilient, self-healing infrastructure across Home Depot's store systems and commerce platforms, working across multiple engineering teams to drive reliability and cost optimization. It suits experienced engineers who excel at chaos engineering and system design and want to mentor other principal engineers while solving platform-wide technical challenges.
Listed on The Home Depot’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Industrial Engineer
Rogue Fitness
Columbus, OH
Rogue Fitness is hiring a Senior Industrial Engineer to optimize warehouse and manufacturing operations in Columbus through process design, equipment selection, and automation strategy. This fully onsite role suits someone who enjoys data-driven problem-solving and thrives in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift frequently.
Listed on Rogue Fitness’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Asked for alongside Lean
Measured from the 77 open roles that name Lean — not from a curated list.
- Six Sigma44 roles57.1%
- 5S Methodology13 roles16.9%
- Root Cause Analysis12 roles15.6%
- Python11 roles14.3%
- Microsoft Excel10 roles13.0%
- MATLAB9 roles11.7%
- TIBCO Spotfire9 roles11.7%
- VBA9 roles11.7%
What employers state they pay
Median
$125,000
Middle half
$111,000 – $162,000
From 57 of 77 open roles — the 74% that publish a range, annualized to USD. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it.
Who employers are hiring
- Entry5%
- Mid27%
- Senior42%
- Lead / Staff / Principal5%
- Management19%
- Executive3%
From 64 roles whose posting states a level.
Where Lean roles are
Among the 54 of 77 open roles we could place on a map.
Roles that use Lean
Employers hiring for Lean
43 in total, most open roles first.
- Samsung Semiconductor13 roles
- Crane Co.5 roles
- AA-dec4 roles
- Beckman Coulter4 roles
- Bristol Myers Squibb3 roles
- HHOKA3 roles
Related skills
Curated neighbors in the taxonomy, whether or not employers ask for them together.