Sr. Manager, Storage Partner Management, Data Center Solutions Product Management

Sr. Manager, Storage Partner Management, Data Center Solutions Product ManagementAt AMD, we believe technology 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 AMD is shaping the future.Whether you're designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we'll advance your career.The Sr. Manager, Storage Partner Management, Data Center Solutions Product Management for the Data Center Solutions business unit will play a key role within AMD, helping to define and deliver next-generation compute and AI infrastructure platforms. The role is both partner and engineering 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 solutions product management subject matter expert on the storage 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 CPU, GPU and networking portfolio, shaping product direction, influencing architecture, and improving how the organization plans and executes. As part of AMD's Ecosystem Product Management team you will help bring structure, clarity, and execution discipline to the complex storage partner ecosystem landscape. This is a key individual contributor role, not a people manager.The ideal candidate will possess a breadth of abilities and skills, including: memory, storage, CPU, data center GPU 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 account. As the business and product leader for AMD's storage partnerships you will play a crucial role in shaping strategy, setting direction, and achieving success. You must be self-motivated, capable of operating autonomously through ambiguity, and constantly striving for excellence.Key responsibilities include managing key strategic ecosystem partnerships driving to achieve AMD's business and technology strategy objectives, being a primary contact point for storage 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, developing internal strategies for standards organization engagement and execute said strategies through industry influence and evangelism, identifying key players in the growing AI market and cultivating strong technical and business relationships, contributing to the setting of ecosystem and partner strategy, the resulting tactical milestones, and leading the team to achieve them, understanding the partner's business goals and requirements; fostering relationships and managing customer expectations to ensure needs are aligned with AMD business goals, within AMD be a strong advocate for the partner and their positioning, understanding partner h/w and s/w requirements, configurations, applications and architect solutions accordingly, maintaining awareness of, and provide reports on, partner status and key issues, driving for highest levels of partner engagement and satisfaction, owning end-to-end partner product evangelism for selected areas of AMD's Data Center and AI infrastructure solutions portfolio, working 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 memory and storage ecosystem, evaluating and guiding trade-offs across performance, power, cost, scalability, and time-to-market, maintaining up to date repository of ecosystem roadmap and technical collateral, scheduling and managing partner meetings on regular cadence and report out to internal product management and engineering teams updates on a quarterly basis, leading 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, supporting executive decision-making with structured analysis and clear recommendations, identifying gaps or inefficiencies in current ecosystem solutions and drive improvements, supporting key customer engagements and help align AMD and strategic ecosystem solutions with infrastructure needs, contributing to external-facing materials and technical narratives where needed.Preferred qualifications include strong experience in the computing industry, at the OEM or ODM, or CSP level, background in storage solutions used in large-scale data center systems, experience in JEDEC, SNIA or other standards bodies with a focus on storage, 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 include BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.Locations include Santa Clara, CA; potential consideration for Austin, TX.This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.