Corporate Strategy - Technology Strategy Director

Micron•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Micron Technology is seeking a Technology Strategy Director in Corporate Strategy to lead strategy work related to AI workloads, acceleration architectures, and evolving memory and storage requirements. The role assesses strategic growth opportunities for Micron products by connecting AI workload trends, customer needs, technology roadmaps, competitive dynamics, and ecosystem changes. It translates AI architecture trends into product, platform, roadmap, and investment recommendations in collaboration with technology teams and business units. The director works with customers, hyperscalers, AI infrastructure partners, accelerator providers, OEMs, and the broader ecosystem to understand technical needs and adoption barriers. The role develops market and technology analyses, frames findings as executive-level decisions and recommendations, and collaborates with Corporate Development on partnerships, investments, and inorganic growth opportunities. It also drives cross-functional alignment on priority AI initiatives and creates strategy communications, executive presentations, and thought leadership materials.

Requirements

Graduate-level technical degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
At least 10 years of semiconductor industry experience, with strong knowledge of memory, storage, compute architectures, and AI-related technology trends.
Extensive understanding of AI workloads, including training, inference, scaling infrastructure, edge AI, accelerator frameworks, and related memory and storage demands.
Proven experience collaborating with customers, ecosystem partners, or technology leaders to understand technical requirements and convert them into strategy, roadmap, or business recommendations.
Experience giving executive-level presentations and influencing executive-level decisions.
Broad experience interacting with engineering, business, and operations roles.
Track record of timely execution, cross-functional leadership, consensus building, and bias for action.
Ability to work as a self-starter in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment with dynamic demands.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Proficiency using advanced AI tools to develop strategic concepts into actionable ideas.

Nice To Haves

MBA or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Lead technology strategy workstreams concerning AI workloads, acceleration architectures, and memory and storage requirements across training, inference, data center, edge, and emerging AI applications.
Identify and assess strategic growth opportunities for Micron memory and storage products by analyzing AI workload trends, customer needs, technology roadmaps, competitive dynamics, and ecosystem changes.
Collaborate with technology teams and business units to translate AI architecture trends into product, platform, roadmap, and investment strategy recommendations.
Work with customers, hyperscalers, AI infrastructure partners, accelerator providers, OEMs, and the extended ecosystem to identify technical needs, adoption obstacles, and opportunities for differentiated Micron solutions.
Develop analyses of AI demand drivers, memory bandwidth and capacity needs, storage performance requirements, system architecture tradeoffs, and implications for Micron's long-range strategy.
Present complex technical and market information as clear executive-level decision points, strategic options, arguments, and recommendations for senior leadership.
Collaborate with Corporate Development to evaluate partnership, investment, and inorganic growth opportunities that could strengthen Micron's AI technology position and ecosystem relevance.
Drive cross-functional alignment among engineering, product, business unit, finance, operations, sales, and strategy teams to advance priority AI initiatives from insight to execution.
Develop strategy communications, executive presentations, and thought leadership materials that explain Micron's opportunity in AI-enabled compute, memory, and storage markets.