Business Development Senior Manager

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THE ROLE

AMD is looking for a Cisco Business Development Sr. Manager to directly support the AMD Business Unit Cisco Lead driving AMD’s server business engagement with Cisco Systems. This role will serve as a key interface between AMD product management, sales, marketing, engineering, and Cisco’s product management and platform teams, with excellent visibility up to executive levels within AMD and externally with the customer.

The Cisco Business Development Sr. Manager will be responsible for helping AMD win new Cisco platforms, support sell-in and design-win activities, track key partner deliverables, and provide clear reporting around marketing spend, sample status, and business execution.

This opportunity is an individual contributor role, not a people manager, and is based in Austin TX; there may be potential to consider candidates based in Santa Clara CA as well.

THE PERSON

You have experience working with OEMs, server platforms, product management, sales, marketing, or business development teams. You are comfortable operating across technical, business, and program execution discussions. Success in the role requires your ability to engage AMD executives, product managers, sales teams, marketers, finance teams, engineering teams, and Cisco stakeholders. You are known for being organized, proactive, technically credible, and capable of driving alignment across multiple teams.

As Cisco Business Development Sr. Manager you are technical enough to work closely with AMD product management and engineering teams, while also being able to help translate AMD’s server value proposition into compelling presentations and discussions with Cisco’s product management organization.

You have track record of strong cross-functional leadership, attention to detail, partner management skills, and the ability to help turn AMD product strategy into successful customer engagements and platform wins.

Candidates are encouraged to have experience in the following areas:

• Partner Leadership — Ability to serve as a key AMD interface for Cisco-related activities, helping coordinate product, business, marketing, and execution priorities.
• Technical Understanding — Ability to work with product management and engineering teams to understand AMD server products, platform requirements, and customer value propositions.
• Business Execution — Ability to track NRE (Non-recurring engineering funds) and marketing spend, support reporting, monitor samples, and help drive partner programs from planning through execution.
• Sell-In and Design-Win Support — Ability to help AMD win new Cisco platforms by supporting customer presentations, product positioning, competitive analysis, and internal execution alignment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive the AMD interface for Cisco server product and platform engagement activities.
• Support sell-in and design-win efforts to help AMD win new Cisco platforms and expand AMD’s presence across Cisco server portfolios.
• Work closely with AMD product management to help prepare and deliver technical and business presentations to Cisco’s product management teams.
• Track and report marketing spend associated with Cisco programs, campaigns, launches, and business development activities.
• Help manage sample tracking, including visibility into sample requirements, status, allocation, delivery, and partner needs.
• Collaborate with AMD sales, business development, product management, marketing, and engineering teams to support Cisco account execution.
• Help synthesize Cisco platform requirements and feedback into actionable inputs for AMD product management and engineering teams.
• Support product positioning, value proposition development, and competitive messaging for Cisco sell-in discussions.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities needed to support Cisco platform launches, partner enablement, and new product introductions.
• Represent AMD’s interests in discussions with Cisco stakeholders, including product management, platform, marketing, and business teams.
• Provide regular updates to AMD leadership on Cisco-related business activity, sample status, marketing spend, design-win progress, and execution risks.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience working with OEMs, hyperscalers, enterprise server customers, or technology partners highly preferred
• Understanding of server product development, including platforms, systems, processors, software enablement, and solution-level positioning highly preferred
• Ability to translate technical AMD product capabilities into clear customer-facing value propositions
• Experience supporting sell-in motions, design-win campaigns, partner business reviews, or customer product planning discussions
• Strong program management and tracking skills, including the ability to manage action items, deliverables, risks, and cross-functional dependencies
• Experience with marketing spend tracking, partner funding, market development funds, campaign reporting, or budget management
• Demonstrated ability working across product management, sales, marketing, engineering, finance, and executive stakeholders
• Strong communication skills, with successful experience presenting clearly to both technical and business audiences
• Experience driving multiple parallel workstreams with close attention to detail
• Strong understanding of business cases, product positioning, platform transitions, and customer decision-making processes

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Business, or related field preferred
• MBA or advanced technical degree is a plus

 This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.