Director, Silicon Operations Production Planning

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Director of Silicon Operations Production Planning in Santa Clara to lead a dynamic team and own multi-product supply strategies for advanced packaging. You will coordinate with Operations, Engineering, and Business Units to prioritize supply, address capacity and material constraints, and guide decisions that support NVIDIA's build plans and customer commitments.

The role demands extensive semiconductor planning experience, strong leadership, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• 12+ years in semiconductor operations, supply planning or related fields.
• 8+ years of people management experience.
• Strong communication and leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of operations supply planners across multiple product families.
• Own supply commitments to meet customer and revenue goals.
• Present supply challenges to management and recommend solutions, including investments and trade-offs.
• Craft optimized production schedules considering die availability, materials and constraints.
• Align wafer planning, data center systems planning, and business units on supply strategies.
• Lead tradeoff discussions to address capacity, materials, or production bottlenecks.
• Support ramp plans from early-stage sampling to high-volume production.
• Drive continuous improvement in performance metrics like shipment hit rate, cycle time and line efficiency.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Quantitative skills

Excel/VBA

Education

Industrial Engineering or BA/BS

Tools

SAP

SAP APO

IBP

Windchill

Excel VBA

Job description

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.

We are now looking for a Director, Silicon Operations Production Planning to join our advanced packaging operations and supply planning team in Santa Clara Office.

What You’ll Be Doing

• You will build and lead a dynamic team of operations supply planners. You will act as a vital connection within Operations, Engineering and the Business Units to set priorities and supply strategies.
• You’ll own operations' supply commitments for multiple advanced packaging chip product families that the company will rely on to make customer and revenue commitments.
• Present supply challenges to management team and make recommendations for resolutions, including capacity and material investments, trade-offs, risk calls, and beyond.
• Drive team to craft optimized production schedule for multiple products and SKUs considering die availability, priorities, materials availability and constraints for NVIDIA's execution teams. Alongside also drive and influence decisions on dependent demands of high bandwidth memories (HBMs), interposers, substrates, and other materials, in order to support the required build plan.
• Work closely with teams and leaders from wafer planning team, datacenter systems planning team, and business unit representatives to drive and align supply strategies, ensuring optimized build plan to meet demand. Your involvement will be essential in understanding and addressing alignment issues between wafer supply and FG build plan.
• Often times there will be capacity, materials, and production issues that will prevent satisfying all demand. You will be the leader in charge to determine tradeoff options and work with internal partners to craft the optimal plan.
• Work with the program managers & engineers to facilitate ramp plans for products from early-stage sampling to high-volume production.
• It's NVIDIA's culture to keep striving for continuous improvement with our partners. You will provide suggestions to the management team of NVIDIA and its subcontractors on how to pursue a higher performance level on our Key Performance Indexes including committed shipment hit rate, cycle time, and production line efficiency.

What We Need To See

• 12 + overall years of working experience in the semiconductor operations field - Supply Planning / Supply Chain or relevant areas, along with 8 + years of experience managing team(s) with direct reports.
• Degree in Industrial Engineering or Business Administration or equivalent experience in semiconductor Planning.
• Effective communication, problem-solving, teamwork, organizational, and quantitative skills.
• Ability to balance the right amount of vital details along with succinctly summarized big picture to drive decisions with senior and executive management.
• Proficiency in business software applications such as Microsoft Office, Excel VBA, SAP, SAP APO, IBP, Windchill, industry leading Advanced Planning software.
• Language: Excellent English skills on reading, writing, speaking, and listening
• Personality: highly organized, detailed orientated, a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Background or experience in engineering, advanced packaging operations.
• To demonstrate consistently the ability to drive solutions to real world operational problems that hinder our ability to hit the goals.
• To lead internal and external team members with interpersonal skills to establish preventive action plans that can improve the overall performance of the company.
• To demonstrate expert system skills in using AI tools to improve efficiency and quality of work.

We have some of the most brilliant and talented people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our outstanding operations teams are growing. If you're a creative and autonomous professional with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you. You can do your life’s work here! Join us! Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 216,000 USD - 339,250 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 15, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.