diff --git a/packages/jsii-pacmak/bin/jsii-pacmak.ts b/packages/jsii-pacmak/bin/jsii-pacmak.ts
index 87ca41e2d8..ac65244b45 100644
--- a/packages/jsii-pacmak/bin/jsii-pacmak.ts
+++ b/packages/jsii-pacmak/bin/jsii-pacmak.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import * as yargs from 'yargs';
 
 import { pacmak, configureLogging, TargetName } from '../lib';
 import { debug } from '../lib/logging';
+import { DEFAULT_PACK_COMMAND } from '../lib/packaging';
 import { VERSION_DESC } from '../lib/version';
 
 (async function main() {
@@ -153,6 +154,12 @@ import { VERSION_DESC } from '../lib/version';
       default: undefined,
       hidden: true,
     })
+    .option('pack-command', {
+      type: 'string',
+      desc: 'Configure a custom command to create package tarballs. Command must output the name of the tarball.',
+      default: DEFAULT_PACK_COMMAND,
+      hidden: true,
+    })
     .option('validate-assemblies', {
       type: 'boolean',
       desc: 'Whether jsii assemblies should be validated. This can be expensive and is skipped by default.',
diff --git a/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/index.ts b/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/index.ts
index 035e4d83b5..b1831d1267 100644
--- a/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/index.ts
+++ b/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/index.ts
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ export async function pacmak({
 
   await timers.recordAsync('npm pack', () => {
     logging.info('Packaging NPM bundles');
-    return Promise.all(modulesToPackageFlat.map((m) => m.npmPack()));
+    return Promise.all(
+      modulesToPackageFlat.map((m) => m.npmPack(argv['pack-command'])),
+    );
   });
 
   await timers.recordAsync('load jsii', () => {
diff --git a/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/packaging.ts b/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/packaging.ts
index d8d5fa2b9d..1d75d8a8ea 100644
--- a/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/packaging.ts
+++ b/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/packaging.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import * as fs from 'fs-extra';
 import type { Assembly, TypeSystem } from 'jsii-reflect';
 import * as os from 'os';
 import * as path from 'path';
@@ -5,6 +6,8 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 import * as logging from '../lib/logging';
 import { Scratch, shell } from './util';
 
+export const DEFAULT_PACK_COMMAND = 'npm pack';
+
 export interface JsiiModuleOptions {
   /**
    * Name of the module
@@ -52,15 +55,27 @@ export class JsiiModule {
   /**
    * Prepare an NPM package from this source module
    */
-  public async npmPack() {
+  public async npmPack(packCommand = DEFAULT_PACK_COMMAND) {
     this._tarball = await Scratch.make(async (tmpdir) => {
-      // Quoting (JSON-stringifying) the module directory in order to avoid
-      // problems if there are spaces or other special characters in the path.
-      const args = ['pack', JSON.stringify(this.moduleDirectory)];
-      if (logging.level >= logging.LEVEL_VERBOSE) {
-        args.push('--loglevel=verbose');
+      const args = [];
+
+      if (packCommand === DEFAULT_PACK_COMMAND) {
+        // Quoting (JSON-stringifying) the module directory in order to avoid
+        // problems if there are spaces or other special characters in the path.
+        args.push(JSON.stringify(this.moduleDirectory));
+
+        if (logging.level >= logging.LEVEL_VERBOSE) {
+          args.push('--loglevel=verbose');
+        }
+      } else {
+        // Ensure module is copied to tmpdir to ensure parallel execution does not content on generated tarballs
+        await fs.copy(this.moduleDirectory, tmpdir);
       }
-      const out = await shell('npm', args, { cwd: tmpdir });
+
+      const out = await shell(packCommand, args, {
+        cwd: tmpdir,
+      });
+
       // Take only the last line of npm pack which should contain the
       // tarball name. otherwise, there can be a lot of extra noise there
       // from scripts that emit to STDOUT.
@@ -69,7 +84,7 @@ export class JsiiModule {
 
       if (!lastLine.endsWith('.tgz') && !lastLine.endsWith('.tar.gz')) {
         throw new Error(
-          `npm pack did not produce tarball from ${
+          `${packCommand} did not produce tarball from ${
             this.moduleDirectory
           } into ${tmpdir} (output was ${JSON.stringify(lines)})`,
         );
diff --git a/packages/jsii-pacmak/test/build-test.sh b/packages/jsii-pacmak/test/build-test.sh
index b9026cec3c..56da0b55b6 100755
--- a/packages/jsii-pacmak/test/build-test.sh
+++ b/packages/jsii-pacmak/test/build-test.sh
@@ -81,3 +81,8 @@ done
 clean_dists
 echo "Testing ALL-AT-ONCE build."
 ${pacmak} ${OPTS} -v --no-parallel $packagedirs
+
+# Test custom pack command
+clean_dists
+echo "Testing yarn custom pack command."
+${pacmak} ${OPTS} -v --pack-command='yarn pack -f custom.tgz -s && echo custom.tgz' ${PWD}/../../@scope/jsii-calc-base-of-base
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