Business Development Sr. Manager

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is seeking a Senior GTM Enablement Manager for Financial Services to shape strategy across capital markets and trading firms.

The role sits at the intersection of product, sales, marketing, and strategic accounts, enabling field teams to position AMD's portfolio—EPYC CPUs, Instinct GPUs, Pensando DPUs, and NICs—for high‑performance, low‑latency workloads. Based in Austin, TX, with potential consideration for NYC/NJ, the role entails up to 50% travel and a

Qualifications

• Design and operationalize GTM strategies to enable field teams.
• Equip sales with differentiated messaging for FSI verticals.
• Accelerate adoption across capital markets, trading firms, exchanges, and data providers.
• Proven experience supporting enterprise or strategic accounts in Financial Services.
• Strong communication and executive-ready content creation.
• Program management and cross-functional leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute vertical-specific GTM strategies for Financial Services aligned with AMD's data center and AI growth priorities.
• Define target segments and use cases (e.g., low-latency trading, risk analytics, fraud detection, AI/ML inference, market data processing).
• Partner with product and business unit teams to align roadmaps with market needs and customer demands.
• Build and scale enablement programs for global sales, SEs, and partners.
• Deliver playbooks, battlecards, value propositions, and competitive positioning tailored to FSI.
• Equip teams to articulate AMD differentiation vs. competitors in performance per watt, latency, TCO, and AI acceleration.
• Support strategic engagements with tier-1 banks, hedge funds, exchanges, and fintechs.
• Collaborate on PoCs, benchmarking, and solution validation.
• Develop relationships with ISVs, system integrators, and ecosystem partners (trading platforms, market data vendors, etc.).
• Create executive-level content (presentations, whitepapers, demos) for customer and industry engagement.
• Represent AMD at industry events (e.g., STAC, FIA, FISD, Quantminds, AI conferences).
• Translate technical capabilities into business outcomes and ROI narratives.
• Track industry trends (AI in trading, regulatory changes like DORA, cloud vs. on-prem).
• Deliver competitive analysis and actionable insights to refine AMD's positioning.
• Provide structured feedback to product teams from customer engagements.
• Act as a central bridge between sales, marketing, engineering, and product management.
• Drive alignment across global teams to ensure consistent execution and messaging.
• Influence roadmap priorities based on vertical-specific requirements.

Skills

GTM strategy design

Sales enablement

Cross-functional leadership

Executive-level storytelling

Market intelligence

FSI/trading knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Master's degree is a plus

Job description

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THE ROLE

AMD is at the forefront of transforming compute for financial services—from ultra-low latency trading platforms to AI-driven analytics at scale. This role offers the opportunity to shape how leading financial institutions leverage next-generation compute to gain competitive advantage.

The Fin Tech GTM Enablement - Financial Services Senior Manager (an individual contributor, not a people manager) is a seasoned GTM Enablement leader who will drive execution and scale within the Financial Services Industry (FSI) vertical. This role sits at the intersection of product, sales, marketing, and strategic accounts, enabling field teams to effectively position AMD's portfolio—including EPYC CPUs, Instinct GPUs, Pensando DPUs, and Solarflare/X4 NICs—across high-performance, low-latency, and AI-driven financial workloads.

This role is based in Austin TX; potential consideration for candidates based in other areas as well including NYC/NJ area. This is an exciting opportunity with global reach, and travel both domestically and internationally is anticipated to be up to50%.

THE PERSON

You bring experience and success designing and operationalizing GTM strategies, equipping sales teams with differentiated messaging, and accelerating adoption across key segments such as capital markets, trading firms, exchanges, and financial data providers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

GTM Strategy & Execution

• Develop and execute vertical-specific GTM strategies for Financial Services aligned with AMD's data center and AI growth priorities
• Define target segments and use cases (e.g., low-latency trading, risk analytics, fraud detection, AI/ML inference, market data processing)
• Partner with product and business unit teams to align roadmaps with market needs and customer demands

Sales Enablement & Field Readiness

• Build and scale enablement programs for global sales, SEs, and partners
• Deliver playbooks, battlecards, value propositions, and competitive positioning tailored to FSI
• Equip teams to articulate AMD differentiation vs. competitors in performance per watt, latency, TCO, and AI acceleration

Customer & Ecosystem Engagement

• Support strategic engagements with tier-1 banks, hedge funds, exchanges, and fintechs
• Collaborate on proof-of-concepts (PoCs), benchmarking, and solution validation
• Develop relationships with ISVs, system integrators, and ecosystem partners (trading platforms, market data vendors, etc.)

Content & Thought Leadership

• Create executive-level content (presentations, whitepapers, demos) for customer and industry engagement
• Represent AMD at industry specific events (e.g., STAC, FIA, FISD, Quantminds, AI conferences etc…)
• Translate technical capabilities into business outcomes and ROI narratives

Market Intelligence & Competitive Insights

• Track industry trends (e.g., AI in trading, regulatory changes like DORA, cloud vs. on-prem adoption)
• Deliver competitive analysis and actionable insights to refine AMD's positioning
• Provide structured feedback to product teams from customer engagements

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as a central bridge between sales, marketing, engineering, and product management
• Drive alignment across global teams to ensure consistent execution and messaging
• Influence roadmap priorities based on vertical-specific requirements

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Senior level, successful technical experience in GTM, product marketing, or business development within:
• Semiconductors / data center infrastructure
• Financial services technology (trading, risk, fintech)
• Proven experience supporting enterprise or strategic accounts in FSI
• Strong understanding of low-latency systems, HPC, and/or AI/ML workloads
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills (executive-ready content creation)
• Strong program management and cross-functional leadership
• Analytical mindset with ability to convert market signals into actionable GTM strategies

Technical & Domain Expertise

• Familiarity with:
• Trading infrastructure (market data, order execution, co-location environments)
• Compute architectures (CPU, GPU, DPU/NIC acceleration)
• Performance optimization concepts (latency, throughput, determinism)
• Ability to translate technical features into business value and competitive differentiation

Successful experience achieving:

• Increasing pipeline and design wins within Financial Services
• Improving sales productivity and win rates in targeted segments
• Adoption of proprietary solutions in key FSI workloads and strategic accounts
• Delivery of high-impact PoCs and customer validations

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Master's degree is a plus

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