Project/Program Manager 2

AMD - Austin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Austin, TX

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Program Manager 2 at AMD is responsible for managing customer accounts and their portfolios, ensuring successful program launches through effective cross-functional collaboration. This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to navigate complex ecosystems. The Program Manager will define, plan, and drive projects while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction throughout the product lifecycle.

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

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and risk management skills.
• Ability to work efficiently and manage effective relationships in a cross-functional organization.
• 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.
• Strong knowledge of productivity and project tools including Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite.

Nice-to-haves

• Detailed oriented, self-driven with a strong sense of pride and ownership.

Benefits

• Employee stock purchase plan
• Annual bonus or sales incentive eligibility
• Competitive benefits package