Deputy Director, Product Platforms

GlobalFoundries•Richardson, TX

5d•$171,000 - $296,000

About The Position

GlobalFoundries is hiring an entrepreneurial product leader to own its differentiated 12nm compute-platform portfolio. The Deputy Director will shape the multi-year platform vision, strategy, roadmap, business plan, and investment priorities, turning reusable processor, memory, interconnect, security, safety, AI acceleration, I/O, software, and development-tool assets into customizable platform families and derivative products. The architecture and IP-reuse strategy is anchored in 12nm and may extend to an adjacent process node when justified by market demand, customer requirements, performance, power, cost, supply strategy, or portfolio economics. This is a hands-on, customer-facing leadership role spanning hardware and software, product execution, ecosystem development, and commercial accountability. The role leads products from market definition and business approval through development, enablement, sampling, production release, launch, customer ramp, and post-launch optimization. Success includes launch readiness, design wins, adoption, margin, revenue growth, and return on investment. The leader builds executive relationships with customers and partners, works across matrixed teams, and communicates a clear platform narrative to executives, customers, partners, field teams, and engineering organizations. The role requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and at least 8 years of related experience, including 5 or more years in product management, platform leadership, product marketing, applications, systems, or comparable customer-facing technical leadership. Relevant experience includes compute products and SoC hardware and software, successful platform launches, revenue or design-win results, and ecosystem development. Advanced technical or business education and experience with processor architectures, Linux-class software enablement, AI acceleration, semiconductor manufacturing tradeoffs, configurable platforms, and distributed teams are preferred. Expected salary range: $171,000–$296,000. Exact salary depends on qualifications, experience, and location. GlobalFoundries states that its employment policies and processes are implemented without regard to protected characteristics and provides a process for requesting reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a closely related technical field.
At least 8 years of semiconductor, embedded-computing, processor, SoC, platform, or closely related product experience.
At least 5 years in product management, platform leadership, product marketing, applications, systems, or a comparable customer-facing technical leadership role.
Strong background in 32-bit or 64-bit compute products.
Demonstrated understanding of SoC hardware and software, with hands-on or leadership involvement in both domains; relevant areas may include silicon architecture, systems, applications, firmware, BSP/SDK, operating systems, drivers, validation, or product engineering.
Proven record of successful semiconductor or embedded-platform launches from market definition and requirements through customer adoption and production ramp.
Demonstrated product revenue growth, design-win creation, portfolio expansion, or turnaround results supported by concrete business metrics.
Experience creating or scaling a software, tools, IP, and partner ecosystem around a compute product or platform.
Strong customer and partner relationships and credibility with engineering leaders, product executives, architects, procurement, and business decision makers.
Ability to build market models, product P&Ls, pricing and margin frameworks, investment cases, forecast ranges, and measurable launch plans.
Excellent leadership and influence skills across matrixed organizations, including the ability to align technical and commercial stakeholders without relying solely on direct authority.
Clear executive communication, sound judgment under uncertainty, high ownership, and willingness to move between strategy, detail, and customer execution.

Nice To Haves

Advanced technical or business degree.
64-bit MPU, application-processor, edge-compute, infrastructure, or Linux-class product experience.
Experience with RISC-V, Arm, MIPS, or comparable processor architectures; multicore SoCs; MMUs and virtualization; coherent fabrics; cache/DDR subsystems; PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or other high-speed interfaces.
Experience with Linux-class products and software enablement, including boot flow, firmware, drivers, SDKs, virtual platforms, FPGA prototyping, evaluation boards, and developer tooling.
Exposure to AI/ML acceleration, vector processing, edge inference, networking offload, functional safety, cybersecurity, HSM/root of trust, or long-lifecycle industrial and automotive products.
Experience managing process-node, foundry, package, test, yield, cost, supply, and lifecycle tradeoffs for semiconductor products.
Experience with configurable platforms, product derivatives, custom silicon, customer IP integration, or platform reuse across multiple end markets.
Established customer and ecosystem-partner network in edge compute, industrial, robotics, machine vision, infrastructure, or automotive.
Experience leading geographically distributed teams and working across engineering, field, partner, and executive communities.
Experience serving multiple markets rather than only a single customer or vertical.
Experience with customer-funded or anchor-funded platform development, derivative roadmaps, and ecosystem/software readiness.
Customer-facing credibility with engineering, architecture, platform, and advanced technology teams.
Strong 32-bit platform leadership with credible software, market, Linux, or MPU adjacency.

Responsibilities

Define and own the multi-year platform vision, product strategy, roadmap, business plan, and investment priorities for the 12nm compute portfolio.
Maintain an architecture and IP-reuse strategy anchored in 12nm, with potential extension to an adjacent process node when supported by market, customer, technical, supply, or portfolio considerations.
Translate market trends and customer use cases into platform requirements spanning compute architecture, memory, interconnect, accelerators, I/O, security, safety, packaging, power, software, tools, and reference systems.
Create a coherent platform family and derivative strategy, identifying opportunities for configuration, customer IP integration, chiplets, companion devices, and custom derivatives.
Own product requirements, target specifications, competitive positioning, pricing strategy, business cases, lifecycle plans, and go/no-go recommendations.
Lead cross-functional platform execution across architecture, silicon design, verification, physical design, DFT, package, test, validation, software, applications, operations, quality, finance, sales, and marketing.
Drive the full launch process from concept and business approval through definition, development, pre-silicon enablement, sampling, production release, market launch, customer ramp, and post-launch optimization.
Build the whole-product plan, including virtual platforms, FPGA prototypes, evaluation systems, SDKs, Linux/RTOS enablement, drivers, toolchains, reference designs, documentation, training, and field collateral.
Develop and manage an ecosystem of processor and IP providers, EDA partners, OS and middleware vendors, toolchain and debug partners, design services firms, board partners, distributors, and application-domain partners.
Establish executive-level customer and partner relationships; lead discovery, roadmap alignment, product definition, commercial framing, design-win strategy, and escalation resolution.
Partner with sales and field teams to develop the opportunity pipeline, segment target accounts, improve customer identification and win rate, and convert engagements into design wins and production revenue.
Own platform KPIs, including roadmap execution, launch readiness, design wins, qualified pipeline, ecosystem readiness, customer adoption, gross margin, forecast accuracy, revenue growth, and return on investment.
Assess competitors, technology shifts, market inflections, and build/buy/partner choices, adjusting the roadmap with speed and discipline.
Communicate a clear and credible platform narrative to executives, customers, partners, field teams, and engineering organizations.
Balance NRE and customer-specific development with platform reuse, derivative economics, margin, schedule, customer needs, and long-term portfolio leverage.
Perform all activities safely and responsibly and support Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.