AI Software Program Manager - New Products

AMD - Austin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Austin, TX

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Program Manager at AMD plays a crucial role in delivering software driver and tools support for next-generation GPUs, particularly in the AI space. This position requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk management skills, along with the ability to manage relationships across various functions to ensure successful program launches. The role emphasizes innovation, process improvement, and effective communication to align deliverables with customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Defines, plans and drives projects and program plans based on management and senior technical guidance.
• Possesses a thorough knowledge of the principles of project management and can apply them effectively on small to large size projects.
• Has responsibility for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas.
• Initiates significant changes to existing processes and methods to improve project and team efficiency.
• Creates and maintains project management artifacts such as schedule, resource and resource forecast, risk and issues logs.
• Provides unique views of project status updates and facilitates cross development team dependencies and communications.
• Identify action or mitigation plans for issues or risks that arise during the project lifecycle.
• Collaborates with core teams and execution teams to identify areas that require special attention or escalations to identify corrective actions.
• Collect, analyze, organize and publish work performance data via dashboards and recurring status reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering.
• Formal project management education, PMP / Scrum Master certification.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, interpersonal, presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build relationships and work effectively as a self-starter and as part of a team.
• Proactively involve team members in planning, decision-making and execution efforts.
• People management experience is desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to handle all levels of interaction, including executive level.
• Horizontal leadership/Matrix management experience.
• Technical program management and customer relationship management experience.
• Strong knowledge of productivity and project tools including Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite.
• Working experience or familiarity with software development components (compilers, libraries, tools, QA), its lifecycle, and operation in a Linux environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a fast-paced, exciting, and growing environment.
• Experience in collaborating in problem solving and mitigating risks with Engineering, Program/Project Management, Business Units and Product Management.

Benefits

• Base pay dependent on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Eligibility for annual bonus or sales incentive.
• Opportunity to own shares of AMD stock.
• Discount when purchasing AMD stock through Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Competitive benefits package.