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

AMD· Engineering
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Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX$188kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior role focusing on power and thermal ecosystem partnerships within AMD’s Data Center Solutions, driving strategic partnerships to enable market share growth for data center and AI infrastructure products. Individual contributor role concentrating on ecosystem strategy, partner engagement, and product management across power and thermal domains.

Responsibilities

  • 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; fostering 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
  • 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
  • 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

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
  • 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; AI players and/or CSPs experience 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

Skills

Required:Power and thermal system knowledgeProduct managementStakeholder influenceCustomer-facing communicationStrategic planningTechnical evangelism
Nice to have:Standards and ecosystems

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Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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