AI Strategy Director: Memory & Compute Leadership

Micron Technology, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 356,000; Full time

Job summary

Micron Technology, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Strategy Leader to chart memory and storage technology directions, aligning AI workload trends with product roadmaps and investment choices. You will lead cross-functional teams and influence executive decisions across the organization.

You will collaborate with customers, hyperscalers, ecosystem partners, and Micron teams to shape our AI-enabled compute and storage strategy and communicate clear recommendations to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Graduate-level technical degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field required; MBA or equivalent experience preferred.
• 10+ years of semiconductor industry experience, with strong knowledge of memory, storage, compute architectures, and AI-related technology trends.
• Extensive understanding of AI workloads that encompass training, inference, scaling infrastructure, edge AI, accelerator frameworks, and relevant memory and storage demands.
• Proven experience collaborating with customers, ecosystem partners, or technology leaders to grasp technical requirements and convert them into strategy, roadmap, or business recommendations.
• Past experience must include executive-level presentations and ability to influence executive-level decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology strategy workstreams related to AI workloads, acceleration architectures, and evolving memory and storage requirements across training, inference, data center, edge, and emerging AI applications.
• Identify and assess strategic growth opportunities for Micron memory and storage products by connecting AI workload trends, customer needs, technology roadmaps, competitive dynamics, and ecosystem changes.
• Collaborate with Micron technology teams and business units to convert AI architecture trends into practical product, platform, roadmap, and investment strategy suggestions.
• Work alongside customers, hyperscalers, AI infrastructure partners, accelerator providers, OEMs, and the extended ecosystem to identify technical needs, adoption obstacles, and chances for distinctive Micron solutions.
• Develop market and technology analyses that evaluate AI demand drivers, memory bandwidth and capacity needs, storage performance requirements, system architecture tradeoffs, and implications for Micron’s long-range strategy.
• Frame complex technical and market information into clear executive-level decision points, strategic options, arguments, and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Collaborate with Corporate Development to evaluate partnership, investment, and inorganic growth opportunities that could strengthen Micron’s AI technology position and ecosystem relevance.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, business unit, finance, operations, sales, and strategy teams to move from insight to execution on priority AI-related central initiatives.
• Build high-impact strategy communications, executive presentations, and thought leadership materials that articulate Micron’s opportunity in AI-enabled compute, memory, and storage markets.

Skills

AI strategy

Executive presentations

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Graduate degree in EE/CS/CE

MBA or equivalent experience

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Micron Technology, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Strategy Leader to chart memory and storage technology directions, aligning AI workload trends with product roadmaps and investment choices. You will lead cross-functional teams and influence executive decisions across the organization.

You will collaborate with customers, hyperscalers, ecosystem partners, and Micron teams to shape our AI-enabled compute and storage strategy and communicate clear recommendations to senior leadership.