Deputy Director, Product Platforms

GlobalFoundries•Austin, TX

23h•$171,000 - $296,000

About The Position

The Deputy Director, Product Platforms is the entrepreneurial product leader for GlobalFoundries’ differentiated 12nm compute-platform portfolio. The role owns product vision, market insight, technical direction, customer leadership, ecosystem development, and commercial accountability. It turns reusable processor, memory, interconnect, security, safety, AI acceleration, I/O, software, and development-tool assets into customizable platform families and derivative products that customers can adopt and scale. The role is accountable for successful launches, design wins, adoption, and sustained revenue growth—not only product planning. The leader defines the multi-year platform strategy, roadmap, business plan, investment priorities, architecture, and IP reuse approach. They translate market trends and customer use cases into whole-platform requirements and lead cross-functional execution from concept and approval through development, enablement, sampling, production release, customer ramp, and post-launch optimization. The whole-product plan includes software, tools, reference systems, evaluation equipment, and supporting documentation and training. The position builds strategic customer and partner relationships, develops the processor and software ecosystem, and works with sales and field teams to create opportunities and convert them into design wins and production revenue. It owns platform KPIs and commercial decisions, including product requirements, specifications, positioning, pricing, business cases, lifecycle plans, margins, forecasts, and return on investment. The role also evaluates competitive offerings, technology shifts, and build/buy/partner choices, and communicates a credible platform narrative across executives, customers, partners, field teams, and engineering organizations.

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, through hands-on experience or leadership involvement in both domains. Relevant experience 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 work across 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 network across customers and ecosystem partners in edge compute, industrial, robotics, machine vision, infrastructure, or automotive.
Experience leading geographically distributed teams and operating across engineering, field, partner, and executive communities.
Experience with products serving multiple markets rather than only a single customer or vertical.
Experience with customer-funded or anchor-funded platform development models, derivative roadmaps, and ecosystem/software readiness.
Customer-facing credibility with engineering, architecture, platform, and advanced technology teams.
Credible software, market, Linux, or MPU adjacency for an exceptional 32-bit platform leader.

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 demand, customer requirements, performance/power/cost needs, supply strategy, or portfolio economics.
Translate market trends and customer use cases into platform requirements spanning compute architecture, memory, interconnect, accelerators, I/O, security, functional safety, packaging, power, software, tools, and reference systems.
Create platform families and derivative strategies, 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 product launches 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/IP providers, EDA partners, OS and middleware vendors, toolchain and debug partners, design services firms, board partners, distributors, and application-domain partners.
Develop executive-level relationships with strategic customers and partners; lead discovery, roadmap alignment, product definition, commercial framing, design-win strategy, and escalation resolution.
Partner with sales and field teams to build 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 competitive offerings, technology shifts, market inflections, and build/buy/partner choices; adjust 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 specificity, and long-term portfolio leverage.
Perform activities safely and responsibly and support Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.