Customer Program Manager

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Taipei, Taiwan · Engineering

This role is for a Customer Program Manager at AMD, focusing on managing customer programs for data center platform engineering, from concept to mass production. The role involves working with ODMs/OEMs, managing customer requirements, schedules, and issues, and ensuring effective communication between customers and internal AMD teams. The Program Manager will report on customer program status to executives, support various internal teams, and drive corrective actions to improve processes. Familiarity with AI and Machine Learning workloads is preferred, but the core function is program management, not AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and lead ODM/OEM partners program. Ensure that customer requirements are identified early enough to allow alignment with internal development programs.
  2. Lead an effective customer program team with internal groups within Sales, Business Manager, Product Manager, Applications Engineer, Field Applications Engineer, Board Program Manager, Software Program Manager as required.
  3. Work with the customer to identify and define requirements, documents, and communicate with the internal teams. Ensure that the program team fully understands the customer's needs and priorities to allow effective planning and prioritization with the appropriate AMD core team.
  4. Work with functional teams to clarify the scope of requirements from the customer CRDs (customer requirement documents) and ensure customer needs are included in AMD NPI product plans and are delivered according to customer’s expectations (schedule, functionality, etc.). Document AMD negotiated deliverables for customer specified projects, including H/W and S/W scope, program schedules, quality programs, project plans, etc.
  5. Work with AMD leadership to ensure that technical resources are assigned to all technical issues. Provide cross-functional partnerships among technical groups, so that schedules and customer expectations are met. Communicate and negotiate with the customer regarding support expectations and schedules for key deliverables.

Skills

Required

  • strong analytical skills
  • problem-solving skills
  • risk management skills
  • ability to work efficiently and manage effective relationships in a cross-functional organization
  • self-directed
  • work in complex and dynamic ecosystems
  • excellent problem solving and analytical skills
  • Strong written, verbal communication skills, and negotiating skills
  • Good knowledge of program management methodologies
  • Ability to work well with internal and external engineering experts (and non-experts) to develop practical solutions to challenging problems
  • very detail-oriented
  • organized
  • capable of multi-tasking in a fast-moving environment
  • Motivated to provide highly responsive support as needed
  • self-starter who is able to work independently

Nice to have

  • Advanced experience in a similar technical program management role or similar customer support role
  • Familiar with Enterprise Operating systems, device drivers, ROCm, firmware, and BIOS
  • Familiar with virtualization software (Citrix, VMWare, etc) and Compute (e.g. OpenCL)
  • Experience with GPUs and Server architecture with competencies on both hardware and software
  • Familiar with AI and Machine Learning workloads

What the JD emphasized

  • customer program launches
  • customer program status
  • customer satisfaction
  • customer requirements
  • customer needs
  • customer expectations
  • customer program meetings
  • customer relationships
  • customer survey
  • customer evaluation