Product Marketing Manager Job Listing at AMD in San Jose, CA (Job ID 71912-en-us)

Description

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THE ROLE
A Product Manager to drive product planning, new product introduction (NPI), and lifecycle management of Evaluation Kits and Debug Hardware Products. This role will focus on bringing to market in-house evaluation boards and debug tools, while also collaborating closely with other engineering teams and ecosystem partners who develop hardware in this space. You will bridge the gap between technical development and go-to-market strategy, ensuring our solutions meet customer needs and stand out in the market.

THE PERSON

We are looking for a bold, collaborative, and creative engineer — ideally a candidate with a strong technical background in semiconductor product management or hardware development. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with both technical depth and business acumen, who can translate market needs into technical product requirements and drive execution with cross-functional teams. This individual should possess unwavering customer focus, critical thinking capabilities, and excellent communication skills, both written and oral. It is critical that the candidate can engage directly with engineers and customers to understand and champion the user experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Product Ownership

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of in-house and partner evaluation boards and debug solutions
• Support board planning activities including feature definition, hardware specifications, design reviews, and bring-up strategy
• Partner with hardware and software engineering to define and drive technical roadmaps, prioritize features, and manage trade-offs between schedule, cost, and functionality
• Coordinate board validation, system integration, and reference design development to ensure readiness for NPI

Demo and Customer Enablement

• Plan and deliver customer-facing demos, technical proof-of-concepts, and reference designs to showcase new board features
• Collaborate with field teams to capture customer feedback and translate it into technical requirements for future board revisions and debug tools

Product Marketing & Go-To-Market

• Develop positioning, messaging, and launch plans for new boards and debug products
• Create internal enablement content and present/train sales, FAEs, and specialists
• Drive external content creation (web pages, collateral, blogs, technical briefs, application notes)

Market & Strategy

• Analyze target markets including industrial/video/healthcare, broadcast, automotive, test & measurement, aerospace & defense, data center, and communications
• Synthesize customer requirements, market trends, and financial objectives into a cohesive product line strategy and board roadmap
• Maintain competitive analysis and identify opportunities for differentiation and innovation

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as the voice of the customer and technical champion within AMD AECG
• Lead cross-functional NPI execution teams (engineering, supply chain, operations, marketing)
• Travel occasionally to customer sites, manufacturing locations, or field events

Note: This position will include some travel for customer/field interaction when necessary

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience (semiconductor, marketing, sales preferred) with a proven track record
• A passion for winning and achieving challenging revenue, design win and market share targets
• Team player with excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as customer interface skills
• Well organized and able to prioritize and multi-task
• Proven experience in successfully bringing new technologies and/or business models to market and driving market adoption.
• Knowledge of FPGAs, Adaptive SoCs, CPUs and/or GPUs
• Development experience with FPGAs, ACAPs, CPUs and/or GPU
• AMD AECG develops highly flexible and adaptive processing platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of technologies - from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent ,MBA is a plus, but not required

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