Program Manager, Data Center GPU

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Engineering

Program Manager for Data Center GPU at AMD, focusing on customer program launches and product lifecycle management. Requires strong project management, analytical, and risk management skills to ensure customer satisfaction and successful product deliverables in a cross-functional environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Defines, plans and drives projects and program plans based on management and senior technical guidance
  2. Possesses a thorough knowledge of the principles of project management and can apply them effectively on small to large size projects
  3. Has responsibility for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas
  4. Initiates significant changes to existing processes and methods to improve project and team efficiency
  5. Creates and maintains project management artifacts such as schedule, resource and resource forecast, risk and issues logs

Skills

Required

  • analytical skills
  • problem-solving skills
  • risk management skills
  • work efficiently in a cross-functional organization
  • manage effective relationships
  • meet commitments
  • successful customer program launches
  • self-directed
  • work in complex and dynamic ecosystems
  • manage customer accounts and their portfolio
  • understand customer platforms/solutions
  • identify and document customer requirements
  • establish engineering schedules
  • drive AMD product solution deliverables
  • alignment with customers’ platforms
  • ensure highest level customer satisfaction
  • product lifecycle
  • defines, plans and drives projects and program plans
  • thorough knowledge of project management principles
  • apply project management principles effectively
  • responsibility for projects or processes of significant technical importance
  • results that cross engineering project areas
  • initiates significant changes to existing processes and methods
  • improve project and team efficiency
  • creates and maintains project management artifacts
  • schedule
  • resource and resource forecast
  • risk and issues logs
  • provides unique views of project status updates
  • facilitates cross development team dependencies and communications
  • identify action or mitigation plans for issues or risks
  • collaborates with core teams and execution teams
  • identify areas that require special attention or escalations
  • identify corrective actions
  • collect, analyze, organize and publish work performance data
  • dashboards
  • recurring status reports
  • detailed oriented
  • self-driven
  • strong sense of pride and ownership
  • organizational skills
  • interpersonal skills
  • presentation skills
  • written communication skills
  • verbal communication skills
  • build relationships
  • work effectively as a self-starter
  • work as part of a team
  • proactively involve team members in planning, decision-making and execution efforts
  • horizontal leadership/matrix management experience
  • technical program management
  • customer relationship management
  • collaborate in problem solving and mitigating risks with Engineering, Program/Project Management, Business Units and Product Management
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering
  • formal project management education
  • PMP / Scrum Master

Nice to have

  • people management experience
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Microsoft Office Suite

What the JD emphasized

  • customer program launches
  • customer requirements
  • customer satisfaction
  • product lifecycle
  • project management
  • risk management
  • cross-functional organization
  • customer accounts
  • customer platforms/solutions
  • AMD product solution deliverables
  • customer satisfaction
  • product lifecycle
  • project management
  • risk and issues logs
  • project status updates
  • cross development team dependencies
  • issues or risks
  • corrective actions
  • work performance data
  • dashboards
  • recurring status reports
  • customer relationship management