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Corporate Development Associate- DC/ Energy

AMD· General Management/ Administration/ Support
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Santa Clara, CA$126.3kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Associate in AMD’s Corporate Development and Data Center Strategy to evaluate and execute data center power and strategic partnership opportunities, coordinating cross-functional teams and external partners from market screening through execution.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct market scans, lead qualification, and preliminary assessments of power availability, delivery timing, site readiness, counterparty capability, commercial terms, and project economics during prospecting and early diligence.
  • Program-manage the data center power and partnerships pipeline, including workplans, milestones, dependencies, decision gates, risks, action items, and owners across multiple concurrent projects.
  • Prepare and distribute clear project-status updates for leadership and cross-functional teams, highlighting progress, upcoming decisions, schedule changes, critical risks, mitigation plans, and required actions.
  • Coordinate commercial, financial, technical, legal, credit, real estate, and operational due diligence; maintain diligence trackers, manage information requests, organize data rooms, and drive issues to resolution.
  • Support contract negotiations by preparing term comparisons, issue lists, negotiation materials, economic analyses, and proposed business positions; track open points and coordinate input from Legal, Finance, Engineering, and other stakeholders through execution.
  • Drive stakeholder management across AMD by establishing meeting cadences, aligning functional requirements, documenting decisions, escalating blockers, and ensuring accountable follow-through against agreed timelines.
  • Maintain the opportunity tracker and executive dashboard; update aging, conversion, capacity, schedule, pipeline stage, No-Go dispositions, financial exposure, and other performance metrics; produce weekly and phase-gate reports.
  • Prepare materials for decision gates, including ROFR documentation, Go or No-Go packages, selection-criteria analyses, site-readiness filters, and executive presentations.
  • Research off-takers, landlords, developers, neoclouds, utilities, power-delivery timelines, partnership structures, and competitive landscapes; compile market and transaction benchmarks.
  • Gather and validate financial data and build or maintain models covering project economics, NPV, ROI, TCO, cash flows, sensitivities, and scenario comparisons; prepare concise risk and opportunity summaries.
  • Track readiness-phase progress, including partner deliverables, power-on forecasts, permitting and construction milestones, contractual obligations, and dependencies that may affect capacity delivery.
  • Support ad hoc strategic analysis, transaction evaluation, and deck creation for executive briefings and investment or approval discussions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, Real Estate, Energy, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience in data center industry, strategy, corporate development, investment banking, consulting, program management, infrastructure, energy, commercial real estate, or another analytical role; relevant graduate-school experience and internships may be considered.
  • Experience performing financial, market, or commercial analysis and developing decision-ready recommendations.
  • Strong Excel and PowerPoint capabilities, including financial modeling, data synthesis, and executive-level presentation development.
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional workstreams, manage project status, and communicate effectively with stakeholders at different levels of an organization.

Skills

Required:Financial modelingProgram managementMarket analysisStakeholder management

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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