Senior Director, Business Operations - Networking

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. We are looking for a Senior Director, Business Operations - Networking to lead and optimize networking product, operations, and strategies across all business segments in close collaboration with our networking team in Israel. In this role you will join a very experienced team that combines business and operational skills with powerful analytical tools to position the company for growth. You will join a small, high-impact, high-visibility team coordinating operations, engineering, product management and finance across all business segments. You will collaborate with the business segments to understand strategies, markets, strengths, and opportunities, and use this knowledge to identify ways to optimize roadmaps across the company. You will consolidate the company-wide build and supply plans, review it with our executive team, and engage with engineering and operations teams to develop optimal sourcing and supply chain plans. You will help guide the business segments on how to use the methodologies developed by our team and in turn keep refining and improving our tools and systems. We work with all levels of the organization, from engineering and product teams to ensure the roadmap is scalable for growth, to operations and finance teams to secure our supply base years ahead, as well as with our senior executive team.

Requirements

Validated experience and understanding of networking technology, manufacturing and supply chain.
Demonstrated experience operations management, supply chain management, product management, or equivalent.
15+ overall years of proven experience.
8+ years of leadership experience.
Excellent quantitative, analytical, and modeling skills.
Understanding of optimization tools for supply-demand-optimization.
Ability to work and communicate with senior executive level staff.
Ability to deliver results in a nuanced and matrix work environment.
MBA combined with undergraduate degree (or equivalent experience) in engineering, science, or business/finance.

Nice To Haves

Self-starter with a demeanor for growth and continuous learning.
Can find creative, out-of-the-box solutions and approaches to complex problems.

Responsibilities

Own demand and supply plans for several segments of our networking business. This entails understanding of product build plans across all product areas, driving optimized system architecture and roadmaps with our networking product teams, and ensuring supply in coordination with Operations teams.
Present to executive team on regular cadence, identify gaps and opportunities to optimize across the company.
Work closely with Product Management teams to define our new product roadmap, guide the marketing team on launch plans and supply availability, and recommend changes where needed.
Support the monthly forecasting process working with Sales teams and the Business Units and provide insight and guidance on what can be improved and optimized.
Work with Business Units, Engineering, and Sales on competitive analysis, roadmap, and product strategies.
Develop models and tools that provide insight into how we can steer our supply for maximum revenue contribution using a combination of business intelligence, data science, as well as advanced optimization tools.