Technical Program Manager

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

19d•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. We are in search of an experienced program manager with strong analytical, problem-solving and risk management skills. Ability to work efficiently and manage effective relationships in a cross-functional organization to meet commitments for successful customer program launches. Must be self-directed and work in complex and dynamic ecosystems. As a Program Manager you will partner with our cross functional teams to manage customer accounts and their portfolio, understand our customers platforms/solutions. Identify and document customer requirements and establish engineering schedules. Drive AMD product solution deliverables and alignment with customers’ platforms to ensure highest level customer satisfaction throughout their product lifecycle.

Requirements

Technical/Program Management experience in a dynamic and competitive industry, particularly within Software Development or Engineering based organizations.
Experience in areas of datacenter system design, software development, and validation
System or silicon based program management experience
Experience leading cross-functional and cross-regional teams to deliver program goals.
Highly organized, strong attention to detail, able to prioritize, and balance multiple work streams to tight deadlines.
Strong knowledge of productivity and project tools including Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite, PowerBI reporting tools.
The candidate should be a proven leader, be able to create and maintain a working cross functional team and be skilled managing in a matrixed environment. A successful candidate must have exceptional communications skills. In addition, the role requires outstanding people management skills to lead, motivate, and guide world class engineers
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to structure and execute complex analysis, draw insights, and communicate summary findings with recommendations to senior management and AMD customers
Ability to network, build relationships, and drive effective decision-making across multiple functions and levels within the organization
Ability to assess and scope requirements and features and relate them to overall program schedule
Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is desired
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

PMP certification a plus, but not required
BIOS and UEFI knowledge a plus, but not required

Responsibilities

Responsible for leading program level BIOS deliverables and related dependencies, ensuring firmware commitment delivery on schedule from emulation through end of life with various engineering and supporting functions
Responsibilities include defining and leading key product deliverables/schedules and driving cross functional activities to achieve high quality deliverables to internal teams as well as customers.
Responsible for program leadership and reports out regularly to executives on status, decisions, and solutions to issues during execution
Foster relationship with program, development, QA and validation teams, while leading expectations of internal and external teams.
Advocate strong process discipline for firmware release sampling, silicon release sampling, firmware issue tracking and operational firmware processes.
Align with AMD cross-functional teams (Design, Platform, Validation & QA, Customer Teams, and Firmware Development) on requirements, schedules, and deliverables, as well as communicating same.
Coordinate hardware and silicon sampling ordering to meet committed BIOS/firmware deliverables.
Develop program schedules by considering various dependencies, negotiate and create a plan that supports the schedule
Building, creating, and maintaining a well-developed, managed and executed program plan is critical
You will establish formal program management artifacts including a plan of record, project/program timelines, requirements, scope, performance, and quality KPIs
Identify program risks and coordinate with firmware management on mitigation plans.
Initiates significant changes to existing processes and methods to improve project and team efficiencies.