Technical Program Manager at Advanced Micro Devices in Shanghai

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD. At 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 ROLE: The Technical Program Manager is an integral support resource for the CGVDI & Radeon AI Customer Engineering team. The Technical Program Manager is primarily responsible for the overall management and execution of the assigned enterprise customer programs which include planning, driving, and reporting on customer program milestones. THE PERSON: Manage, lead and own customer program requirements and execution from concept to mass production. Manage customer programs and schedules, customer issues (business related, hardware related, software related, etc.) throughout the life of the program. Provide an effective communication interface with the customer and ensure customer message is aligned with AMD business and product strategy. Report weekly customer program status to executives and internal AMD stakeholders. Manage internal efforts to ensure that overall customer satisfaction is maintained and improved as necessary. Support the account team, business managers, sales and field application engineers to win new business. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Manage, lead, and fully own the customer program. Ensure that customer requirements are identified early enough to allow alignment with internal development programs. Lead an effective customer program team with internal groups within Sales, Business Manager, Product Manager, Applications Engineer, Field Applications Engineer, Board Program Manager, Software Program Manager as required. Work with the customer to identify and define requirements, documents, and communicate with the internal teams. Ensure that the program team fully understands the customer's needs and priorities to allow effective planning and prioritization with the appropriate AMD core team. Work with functional teams to clarify the scope of requirements from the customer CRDs (customer requirement documents) and ensure customer needs are included in AMD NPI product plans and are delivered according to customer’s expectations (schedule, functionality, etc.). Document AMD negotiated deliverables for customer specified projects, including H/W and S/W scope, program schedules, quality programs, project plans, etc. Work with AMD leadership to ensure that technical resources are assigned to all technical issues. Provide cross-functional partnerships among technical groups, so that schedules and customer expectations are met. Communicate and negotiate with the customer regarding support expectations and schedules for key deliverables. Define, track, and ensure timeliness of major program deliverables. Maintain an overall program schedule to highlight the major and critical milestones and risks of customer program. Monitor and report progress to executive team on product development efforts from inception to production. Ensure major account deliverables are rolled into respective product programs and present customer issues, and underlying risks at program review meetings. Participate in the coordination of AMD product changes (ECNs, BOM, Security updates) with the customer, product program management, engineering, and any other related groups until the change is fully implemented. Manage customer program meetings and customer conference calls. Document and distribute meeting action items and action items from these meetings/calls. Work with peer support teams to ensure that minutes/action items are properly documented and distributed. Provide input to product management to ensure