About This Role

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THE ROLE

The Sr. Manager of Networking Partner Management for the Data Center Solutions business unit will play a key role within AMD, helping to define and deliver next-generation Compute and AI infrastructure platforms. The role is both partner and AMD engineering team facing with a focus on the growing AI market. This individual will be responsible for engaging -networking ecosystem partners and ecosystem solution providers, to execute AMD’s strategy to enable market share growth for AMD’s current and next generation of data center solutions. The individual will serve as the Data Center Solutions Product Management subject matter expert on the networking ecosystem, understanding both long-term product and business strategy. You will be responsible for ensuring successful engagement with the broad ecosystem to achieve AMD’s strategic ecosystem and business goals.

You will own critical ecosystem product domains and drive strategic initiatives across AMD’s data center CPU, GPU and networking portfolio, shaping product direction, influencing architecture, and improving how the organization plans and executes. As part of AMD’s Ecosystem Product Management team you will help bring structure, clarity, and execution discipline to the complex memory partner ecosystem landscape.

This is a key individual contributor role, not a people manager.

THE PERSON

The ideal candidate will possess a breadth of abilities and skills, including: networking, storage, Optics, connectivity, CPU, data center GPU product knowledge, machine learning applications and solutions, strong marketing and presentation skills, solid understanding of customers’ business and decision makers, and strong individual initiative to drive progress on each partnership. As the business and product leader for AMD’s networking and storage partnerships you will play a crucial role in shaping strategy, setting direction, and achieving success. You must be self-motivated, capable of operating autonomously through ambiguity, and constantly striving for excellence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Ecosystem Strategy & Ownership

Manage key strategic ecosystem partnerships driving to achieve AMD’s business and technology strategy objectives

As part of the Instinct product management team, be a primary contact point for networking ecosystem partner engagements, evangelizing AMD data center GPU technologies/products and capabilities

Regular roadmap alignment with partners, identify synergies, disconnects and emerging opportunities and influencing change as necessary to ensure AMD’s success

Develop internal strategies for standards organization engagement and execute said strategies through industry influence and evangelism

Identify key players in the growing AI market and cultivate strong technical and business relationships

Contribute to the setting of ecosystem and partner strategy, the resulting tactical milestones, and leading the team to achieve them

Understand the partner’s business goals and requirements; foster relationships and manage customer expectations to ensure needs are aligned with AMD business goals

Within AMD be a strong advocate for the partner and their positioning

Understand partner h/w and s/w requirements, configurations, applications and architect solutions accordingly.

Maintain awareness of, and provide reports on, partner status and key issues

Drive for highest levels of partner engagement and satisfaction

Own end-to-end partner product evangelism for selected areas of AMD’s Data Center GPU and AI infrastructure portfolio

Work within the Product management organization to translate customer requirements, market signals and technology trends into clear product strategies and requirements for AMD’s strategic partnerships within the networking ecosystem

Evaluate and guide trade-offs across performance, power, cost, scalability, and time-to-market

Maintain up to date repository of ecosystem roadmap and technical collateral

Schedule and manage partner meetings on regular cadence and report out to internal product management and engineering teams updates on a quarterly basis

Strategic Initiatives & Ecosystem Planning

Lead high-priority, cross-functional initiatives such as:

Long-term technology and Ecosystem planning

Multi-generation / Multi-partner roadmap alignment and portfolio prioritization

Evaluation of new product opportunities or market expansions

Support executive decision-making with structured analysis and clear recommendations

Identify gaps or inefficiencies in current ecosystem solutions and drive improvements

Customer & Partner Ecosystem Engagement

Engage with hyperscalers, cloud providers, and system partners to inform product direction around key ecosystems

Support key customer engagements and help align AMD and strategic ecosystem solutions with infrastructure needs

Contribute to external-facing materials and technical narratives where needed

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Strong experience in the computing industry, at the OEM or ODM, or CSP level

Background in networking system architecture and solutions used in large-scale data center systems with focus on switching

Background in optics and network connectivity

Experience in IEEE, SNIA or other standards bodies with a focus on networking ecosystems

Expertise in enabling, building, and deploying industry standards and ecosystems

Strong familiarity with semiconductor business practices, operations, and product lifecycles in the networking, compute, storage, and/or memory segments

Substantial experience in a customer-facing role across multiple functions within a large organization. Experience with AI players and/or CSPs is a big plus.

Knowledge of AI workloads and SW stack

Outstanding written, oral communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills across technical and executive audiences

Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate without direct authority

Ability to multi-task and handle multiple simultaneous projects

Background in architecture-driven product management or system engineering

Results driven

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline preferred

LOCATIONS

Santa Clara, CA preferred

Austin, TX

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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