Senior Product Manager, Data Center

Intel Corporation; Hillsboro (OR); On-site; USD 161,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR is seeking an Experienced Hire for a Xeon product leadership role. You will own the product lifecycle from definition to end-of-life, coordinating across design, architecture, manufacturing, and marketing to ensure successful launches and sustained upgrades.

Responsibilities include shaping roadmaps with platform teams, translating workload insights into strategy, and guiding coordination across validation and performance teams to meet customer requirements in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering, CS, or STEM with 7+ years of experience.
• 7+ years in semiconductor product management, technical marketing, or product architecture.
• 7+ years owning end-to-end hardware or platform products, including launch and lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own Xeon product through its full lifecycle: definition, planning, development, production, launch, and end-of-life.
• Coordinate across design, architecture, process technology, manufacturing, test, quality, and marketing.
• Influence product priorities via competitive intelligence, workload analysis, and customer insights.
• Drive readiness gates and execution across validation, debug, and performance teams.
• Lead cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed environment to align on success criteria.

Skills

Product ownership

Lifecycle leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Workload analysis

Roadmap development

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelors in Electrical/CS/STEM

Job description

Job Type: Experienced Hire

Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Additional Locations: US, Arizona, Phoenix, US, California, Folsom, US, California, Santa Clara, US, Texas, Austin

What You'll Do

• Product Ownership & Lifecycle Leadership Own a Xeon product through its full lifecycle: product definition, planning, development, production, launch, and end‑of‑life. Serve as the central point of coordination across design, architecture, process technology, manufacturing, test, quality, and marketing. Maintain lifecycle accountability, including upgrades, feature changes, and product sustaining decisions.
• Product Strategy & Roadmap Influence Apply competitive intelligence, customer insights, and workload analysis to influence product priorities within the broader Xeon portfolio framework. Partner with platform and system architects to assess emerging technologies and provide informed recommendations for future product investments. Translate customer and ecosystem feedback into actionable inputs for roadmap and feature decisions.
• Competitive Positioning & Product Messaging Analyze the competitive landscape and define product positioning that clearly communicates customer value. Develop performance leadership narratives grounded in real workload KPIs, not just specifications. Support go‑to‑market planning and engage with customers and ecosystem partners to validate workloads, use cases, and performance targets.
• Technology Readiness & Launch Execution Own workload and KPI readiness gates, driving execution across validation, debug, and performance optimization teams. Represent product readiness, risks, and mitigation plans in executive and cross‑organizational reviews. Support global product launches in partnership with marketing, communications, PR, and sales enablement teams.
• Cross‑Functional Leadership Align engineering, marketing, manufacturing, and business stakeholders on priorities, tradeoffs, and definitions of success. Drive convergence across validation, debug, and performance teams to ensure outcomes reflect real customer requirements. Operate effectively in a highly matrixed environment, influencing without direct authority.

Behavioral traits that we are looking for:

• Strategic thinker with strong business judgment.
• Customer-focused and data-driven.
• Strong executive communication and influence.
• Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environments.
• Proven ability to align senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong ownership and results orientation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Electrical /Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM related field with 7+ year of experience.
• 7+ years of experience in semiconductor product management, technical marketing, or product architecture.
• 7+ years of experience owning end‑to‑end hardware or platform products, including launch and lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated depth operating at the system or platform level.
• Proven track record owning product decisions under ambiguity — including setting success criteria, driving tradeoffs, and carrying consequences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead senior engineering stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to articulate a coherent product narrative that connects architecture intent, workload performance, competitive positioning, and customer value.
• MBA or equivalent experience translating technical tradeoffs into business, portfolio, and market implications.
• Direct experience with server or datacenter platform business involving CPU, memory, and I/O.
• Demonstrated exposure to hyperscale, CSP, or OEM/ODM customers or ecosystems.
• Hands‑on involvement with workload‑based performance or benchmarking frameworks (e.g., MLPerf, SPEC, TPC, or equivalent internal systems).

Why Join Intel?

Help shape the future of data center computing by driving Intel® Xeon® products that power critical cloud, AI, and enterprise workloads worldwide. Collaborate with leading technologists and customers to turn breakthrough innovation into meaningful business and customer impact.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

• Intel offers a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry.
• It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation.
• Intel invests in our people and offers a complete and competitive package of benefits employees and their families through every stage of life.
• See Intel Benefits for more details.

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $160,980.00-311,040.00 USD

Work Model for this Role: This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on‑site at their assigned Intel site and off‑site.

Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices.