Sr. Manager, Data Center Power and Thermal , Partner Management – Data Center Solutions Product Management

AMD; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

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Job summary

AMD is seeking a Sr. Manager, Data Center Power and Thermal, Partner Management to lead ecosystem partnerships for the Data Center Solutions business unit.

You will engage partners and AMD teams to define strategy, drive engagement, and ensure alignment of power, thermal, and AI infrastructure goals. You will influence product direction through strategic collaboration, manage cross-functional initiatives, and advocate for partner needs while operating autonomously within a dynamic technology

Qualifications

• Breadth in power, thermal, data center systems, and AI infrastructure.
• Strong marketing and presentation skills with customer-first approach.
• Experience engaging ecosystem partners and solution providers.

Responsibilities

• Own ecosystem partnerships to align AMD strategy with partner roadmaps.
• Drive end-to-end partner product evangelism for Data Center Solutions & AI infra.
• Coordinate roadmap reviews with partners and internal teams on a quarterly cadence.
• Develop strategies for standards engagement and industry influence.
• Engage hyperscalers and CSPs to align infrastructure needs with AMD solutions.

Skills

Power & Thermal

Data Center Solutions

Partner management

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Executive communication

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE

The Sr. Manager, Data Center Power and Thermal, Partner Management for the Data Center Solutions business unitwill play a key rolewithin AMD, helping to define and deliver next-generation Data Center and AI infrastructure platforms.The role is both partner and AMD engineering team facing with a focus on the growing AI market. This individual will be responsible for engaging ecosystem partners and ecosystem solution providers, to execute AMD’s strategy to enable market share growth for AMD’s current and next generation of data center solutions. The individual will serve as the Data Center Solutions Product Management subject matter expert on the power and thermal ecosystem, understanding both long-term product and business strategy. You will be responsible for ensuring successful engagement with the broad ecosystem to achieve AMD’s strategic ecosystem and business goals.

You will own critical ecosystem product domains and drive strategic initiatives across AMD’s data center GPU portfolio, shaping product direction, influencing architecture, and improving how the organization plans and executes. As part of AMD’s Ecosystem team you will help bring structure, clarity, and execution discipline to the complex memory and storage partner ecosystem landscape.

This is not a people management focused role, this is an opportunity for a key individual contributor.

THE PERSON

You possess a breadth of abilities and skills, including: power, thermal, infrastructure, data center solutions product knowledge, machine learning applications and solutions, strong marketing and presentation skills, solid understanding of customers’ business and decision makers, and strong individual initiative to drive progress on each partnership. As the business and product leader for AMD’s Power and Thermal partnerships you will play a crucial role in shaping strategy, setting direction, and achieving success.You are known for being self-motivated, capable of operating autonomously through ambiguity, and constantly striving for excellence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Ecosystem Strategy & Ownership

• Manage key strategic ecosystem partnerships driving to achieve AMD’s business and technology strategy objectives
• As part of the Instinct product management team, be a primary contact point for power and thermal ecosystem partner engagements, evangelizing AMD data center solutions technologies/products and capabilities
• Regular roadmap alignment with partners, identify synergies, disconnects and emerging opportunities and influencing change as necessary to ensure AMD’s success
• Develop internal strategies for standards organization engagement and execute said strategies through industry influence and evangelism
• Identify key players in the growing AI market and cultivate strong technical and business relationships
• Contribute to the setting of ecosystem and partner strategy, the resulting tactical milestones, and leading the team to achieve them
• Understand the partner’s business goals and requirements;foster relationships and manage customer expectations to ensure needs are aligned with AMD business goals
• Within AMD be a strong advocate for the partner and their positioning
• Understand partner h/w and s/w requirements, configurations, applications and architect solutions accordingly.
• Maintain awareness of, and provide reports on, partner status and key issues
• Drive for highest levels of partner engagement and satisfaction

• Own end-to-end partner product evangelism for selected areas of AMD’s Data Center Solutions and AI infrastructure portfolio
• Work within the Product management organization to translate customer requirements, market signals and technology trends into clear product strategies and requirements for AMD’s strategic partnerships within the networking and storage systems ecosystem
• Evaluate and guide trade-offs across performance, power, cost, scalability, and time-to-market
• Maintain up to date repository of ecosystem roadmap and technical collateral
• Schedule and manage partner meetings on regular cadence and report out to internal product management and engineering teams updates on a quarterly basis

Strategic Initiatives & Ecosystem Planning

• Lead high-priority, cross-functional initiatives such as:
  • Long-term technology and Ecosystem planning
  • Multi-generation / Multi-partner roadmap alignment and portfolio prioritization
  • Evaluation of new product opportunities or market expansions
• Support executive decision-making with structured analysis and clear recommendations
• Identify gaps or inefficiencies in current ecosystem solutions and drive improvements

Customer & Partner Ecosystem Engagement

• Engage with hyperscalers, cloud providers, and system partners to inform product direction around key ecosystems
• Support key customer engagements and help align AMD and strategic ecosystem solutions with infrastructure needs
• Contribute to external-facing materials and technical narratives where needed

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Strong experience in the computing industry, at the OEM or ODM, or CSP level
• Background in power and thermal system architecture and solutions used in large-scale data center systems
• Background in optics and network connectivity
• Experience in IEEE, SNIA, OCP or other standards bodies with a focus on power and thermal ecosystems
• Expertise in enabling, building, and deploying industry standards and ecosystems
• Strong familiarity with semiconductor business practices, operations, and product lifecycles in the networking, compute, storage, and/or memory segments
• Substantial experience in a customer-facing role across multiple functions within a large organization. Experience with AI players and/or CSPs is a big plus.
• Knowledge of AI workloads and SW stack
• Outstanding written, oral communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills across technical and executive audiences
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate without direct authority
• Ability to multi-task and handle multiple simultaneous projects
• Background in architecture-driven product management or system engineering
• Results driven

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline

LOCATIONS

• Santa Clara, CA preferred
• Austin, TX

This role is not authorized for visa sponsorship.

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