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AMD

Designs chips for computers and AI systems

Director Product Management - DC GPU

Full-TimeDeadline 3/27/27
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's, Master's, MBA, PhD
Santa Clara, CA, USA
HybridFlexible remote within the U.S.; travel to customer and partner sites is required.
ProductTechnical Product Management
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • 12–15+ years of experience in technical product management, system architecture, or related engineering roles.
  • Background in GPUs, AI accelerators, or large-scale data center systems.
  • Proven experience delivering complex hardware products and/or leading cross-functional strategic initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of system-level trade-offs across performance, power, cost, and scalability.
  • Experience building business cases and using data to drive product decisions.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate without direct authority.
  • Strong communication skills across technical and executive audiences.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
Responsibilities
  • Own end-to-end product definition for selected areas of AMD’s Data Center GPU and AI infrastructure portfolio.
  • Translate customer requirements, market signals, and technology trends into clear product strategies and requirements.
  • Drive Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) and ensure alignment with architecture and business objectives.
  • Evaluate and guide trade-offs across performance, power, cost, scalability, and time-to-market.
  • Lead high-priority cross-functional initiatives, including long-term technology and R&D investment planning, multi-generation roadmap alignment and portfolio prioritization, and evaluation of new product opportunities or market expansions.
  • Support executive decision-making with structured analysis and clear recommendations.
  • Identify gaps or inefficiencies in current approaches and drive improvements.
  • Drive development and adoption of consistent product management processes across the organization.
  • Build and maintain business cases, including revenue, cost, and investment trade-offs.
  • Improve cross-functional planning and execution, including NPI readiness, pricing inputs, and customer deliverables.
  • Establish mechanisms for tracking goals, progress, and key decisions across product teams.
  • Translate AI/HPC workloads and infrastructure requirements into silicon and system-level definitions.
  • Influence architecture decisions across GPU, memory, interconnect, and platform design.
  • Drive cross-domain trade-offs spanning performance, scalability, power, cooling, and system integration.
  • Participate in architecture reviews and key development milestones.
  • Drive alignment across Architecture, Silicon Design, Systems Engineering, Software, Operations, and Business teams.
  • Lead complex efforts from early concept through production and deployment.
  • Partner with go-to-market teams to ensure clear positioning and successful launches.
  • Engage with hyperscalers, cloud providers, and system partners to inform product direction.
  • Support key customer engagements and help align AMD solutions with infrastructure needs.
  • Contribute to external-facing materials and technical narratives where needed.
Desired Qualifications
  • Hands-on experience applying best-practice AI tools and methodologies to product management processes.
  • Experience with AI/ML workloads, training/inference systems, or HPC environments.
  • Familiarity with data center infrastructure, including networking, cooling, and platform design.
  • Experience in product operations, portfolio planning, or business analytics within a technical organization.
  • Background in architecture-driven product management or system engineering.
  • Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; MBA is a plus.

About the company

AMD designs processors, graphics chips and AI accelerators for computer makers, cloud operators and businesses that build electronic devices. Its Ryzen processors power personal computers, while EPYC processors handle work in data centers and Radeon chips render graphics. Instinct accelerators run AI models, paired with software that developers use to train models and put them into production. AMD sells chips and related computing systems through equipment makers, distributors and retail channels, and contracts with outside foundries to fabricate its semiconductor designs. It was founded in 1969 and has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

1969

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What believers are saying

  • Data centers drive growth: AMD's revenue rose 50% to $11.5 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
  • US learning support is conditional: AMD reimburses up to $5,250 yearly for education, subject to manager approval and funding.
  • Planned demand has an anchor: AMD's July 2026 Anthropic deal targets up to two gigawatts of computing from 2027.

What critics are saying

  • Advanced chip supply relies on one foundry: TSMC makes all AMD processor and graphics wafers at 7nm or smaller.
  • Gaming is shrinking despite AI growth: AMD's gaming revenue fell 31% to $779 million in the June 2026 quarter.
  • Lab work limits location flexibility: AMD lists its Santa Clara optical-interconnect integration engineer role as on-site.

What makes AMD unique

  • Two console families use its designs: AMD designs custom processors for Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox Series.
  • Developers inspect its GPU software: AMD's ROCm stack is open source, while Nvidia's CUDA platform remains proprietary.
  • Chip circuitry stays adjustable: AMD sells adaptive processors whose hardware configuration changes after manufacture, without replacing the chip.

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