Sr. Program Manager

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. THE ROLE: The AMD Client & Graphics (CG) Business Unit is on the cutting edge of delivering the best-in-class PC solutions. We are driving leadership in compute, graphics and AI and continuing to look forward to best-in-class solutions. THE PERSON: The Systems Architecture group is looking at a technical program manager role that will drive our System Feature roadmap of both our ecosystem technologies as well as our System Architecture features. You will work across all of engineering and business to meet overall initiative and/or product objectives.

Requirements

Ability to grasp concepts during discussions and turn minutes into action items
Experience in architecture system definition, chip and platform design and program management disciplines.
Strong understanding of the general silicon engineering process (preferably CPU or APU) from concept to tape-out to production.
Has discipline strength in both SW and HW design optimization.
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
Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
Formal Project Management education, PMP certified
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Customer design experience is beneficial.
Experience with Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence and Excel is an asset

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
Drive the requirements of the CG portfolio System features, technology, POCs and NUD roadmaps
Responsible to engineering leadership regular report out to executives on status, and eminent critical decisions.
Ability to network, build relationships and drive effective decision-making across multiple functions and levels within the organization
Manage a portfolio of strategic product and technology development initiatives
Lead cross collaboration across Customer Engineering, Competitive insights, and NPI teams into the architecture process for future generation planning
Drive initiatives with diverse, cross-functional and globally distributed teams
Oversee multiple project teams and ensure that program goals are achieved