Sr. Manager Project/ Program Mgmt.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Fort Collins, CO

9d•Onsite

About The Position

AMD’s Cores Organization delivers industry leading CPU’s, Caches, and Chiplets that are the foundation of AMD’s server, client, and gaming business. We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to join this innovative team to lead key innovation and execution initiatives and to enhance our existing strong track record of program delivery. The role is focused on delivering programs, capability, and quality through RTL, Verification, and Post-Silicon program management. The candidate will join the team based in Fort Collins, CO.

Requirements

Successful experience in technical program management
Outstanding track record of delivering sophisticated software/hardware programs
Creativity and innovation
Advanced and earnest communication skills
Abundance mindset
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
Ability and desire to guide and develop people and teams
Comfortable working with senior executives

Nice To Haves

Good understanding of requirements management, documentation management, and defect management
Ability to grasp concepts during discussions and turn minutes into action items
Able to communicate concepts and processes with stakeholders
Analytical, self-motivated, organized, detailed-oriented and results-oriented
Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work well with multiple people and teams, ability to communicate progress to team members on a regular basis
Experience working in a high-pressure environment and competing priorities and tight turnaround times
Engineering background preferred
Experience with Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence and Excel is an asset
Experience with Agile methodology
Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering Preferred
Formal Project Management education, PMP certified preferred

Responsibilities

Defines, plans and drives projects and program plans based on management and senior technical guidance
Scope technical feasibility of new Products by clarifying and analyzing requirements with SW/HW Architects, Technical Leads and Engineers
Develop program schedule by considering various Driver, SW Stack components and HW/FW dependencies, negotiate and create a staffing plan that supports the schedule
Building, creating, and maintaining a well-developed, managed and executed program plan is critical
Establish formal program management artifacts including a plan of record, statements of work, project/program timelines, budget, scope, performance, and quality KPIs
Excellence in resource planning is necessary
Plan for risks in the development path, identify prevention methods, and address them to save on engineering costs
Address the needs and requirements called upon from AMD's Engineering, Product Management and Customer Engineering organizations