Sr. Manager, Storage Partner Management, Data Center Solutions Product Management

The Sr. Manager, Storage Partner Management, Data Center Solutions Product 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 engineering facing with a focus on the growing AI market. This individual will be responsible for engaging 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 solutions product management subject matter expert on the storage 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 storage partner ecosystem landscape. This is a key individual contributor role, not a people manager.

The ideal candidate will possess a breadth of abilities and skills, including: memory, storage, 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 account. As the business and product leader for AMD’s 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.

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

As part of the Data Center Solutions product management team, be a primary contact point for storage partner engagements, evangelizing AMD data center solutions 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 and AI infrastructure solutions 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 memory and storage 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

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

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

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

Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance .

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.