Sr. Manager, Strategic Sponsorships Job Listing at AMD in Santa Clara, CA (Job ID 93759-en-us)

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We are seeking an experienced and commercially minded Sr. Manager, Strategic Sponsorships to lead AMD's event sponsorship discipline across the global event portfolio.

You will develop strategic sponsorship models that create meaningful value for AMD, our partners, and our audiences. This role will establish the strategy, standards, commercial models, and partner experience across AMD events, evolving sponsorship programs beyond transactional opportunities toward deeper ecosystem engagement aligned with AMD's business and event objectives.

You are a strategic and commercially focused leader with experience in sponsorships, strategic partnerships, experiential marketing, alliances, or business development. You combine strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to build meaningful partner relationships and create sponsorship programs that deliver measurable value.

You are comfortable working across complex, global organizations and collaborating with senior stakeholders across Sales, Alliances, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and other functions. You bring a strategic approach to partnership development while being able to translate that strategy into scalable programs, processes, and partner experiences.

• Define and lead AMD's event sponsorship strategy across proprietary events, industry events, and other strategic programs.
• Identify and develop opportunities with priority ecosystem partners that strengthen AMD events, audience experiences, and broader business relationships.
• Develop sponsorship models, packages, benefits, inventory, pricing, and engagement opportunities aligned with event objectives, partner needs, and audience experience.
• Establish sponsorship revenue and value objectives and develop commercial approaches that maximize return while maintaining the integrity of AMD's brand and attendee experience.
• Define the end-to-end sponsor and partner journey, from initial engagement and contracting through activation, onsite experience, measurement, and post-event reporting.
• Partner with Proprietary Events and Industry Events leaders to determine the appropriate role for partners and sponsorships within individual portfolio and event strategies.
• Collaborate across Alliances, Sales, Business Units, Legal, Finance, Procurement, Brand, Event Marketing, and other teams to coordinate partner engagement and ensure alignment with broader AMD relationships.
• Establish consistent processes and standards for sponsorship inventory, pricing, benefits, approvals, contracting, fulfillment, and partner communications.
• Define sponsorship and partner success measures, demonstrate value to AMD and participating partners, and use performance insights to continuously improve future programs.
• Monitor sponsorship trends, partner expectations, and industry practices to identify opportunities to strengthen AMD's sponsorship strategy and partner experience.
• Lead and develop the Sponsorship Operations function responsible for operationalizing sponsorship programs across the event portfolio.

• Progressive experience in sponsorships, strategic partnerships, experiential marketing, alliances, business development, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing large-scale sponsorship or strategic partnership programs.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience developing sponsorship pricing, packages, inventory, and value propositions.
• Proven ability to build strategic relationships and negotiate effectively with senior partner stakeholders.
• Experience working with complex technology ecosystems or strategic partner networks.
• Strong understanding of event sponsorship activation and end-to-end partner experience.
• Experience establishing scalable sponsorship processes, standards, and governance.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across Sales, Alliances, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and other functions in a matrixed environment.
• Strong strategic thinking, negotiation, communication, and relationship management skills.
• Experience leading and developing team members or operational resources.

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Santa Clara, California, or Austin, Texas.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.