Director Corporate Strategy Partnerships and Ecosystem

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the CTO Office, engineering, and business leaders to evaluate AMD’s competitive position and assess product roadmaps against emerging technology and market trends.
• Develop strategic recommendations that address competitive, business, and technology gaps across CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, networking, and adjacent markets.
• Analyze market, technical, financial, and customer data to generate insights that support executive decision-making and strategic planning.
• Drive strategic assessments of emerging industry trends and recommend actions that strengthen AMD’s long-term market position.
• Identify new growth opportunities, evaluate market adjacencies, and develop market-entry strategies in partnership with business and commercial teams.
• Conduct competitive intelligence analyses and benchmark AMD’s technology position relative to industry competitors.
• Lead strategic research initiatives and facilitate executive discussions on competitive dynamics, disruptive technologies, and emerging opportunities.
• Evaluate startup ecosystems, technology partnerships, and investment opportunities in collaboration with AMD’s venture and innovation teams.
• Support annual long-range planning activities, including market sizing, TAM development, business transformation initiatives, and strategic growth planning.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations, business cases, and strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
• Lead and support partnership, investment, corporate development, and M&A-related activities, including opportunity identification, evaluation, diligence, alignment, and integration planning.
• Collaborate across functions to ensure engineering investments and strategic initiatives align with AMD’s long-term corporate objectives.

Preferred Experience

• Experience developing and executing corporate strategy initiatives within the semiconductor, technology, computing, AI, cloud, or adjacent industries.
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to engage credibly on technology architectures, product roadmaps, and engineering investment priorities.
• Experience conducting market analysis, competitive intelligence, technology forecasting, and strategic planning.
• Demonstrated ability to transform complex technical and business analyses into actionable strategic recommendations for executive audiences.
• Strong financial analysis, business modeling, forecasting, and valuation capabilities.
• Experience developing executive presentations and communicating effectively with senior leadership teams.
• Knowledge of total addressable market (TAM) methodologies, portfolio planning, and long-range planning processes.
• Exposure to corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, strategic investments, ecosystem partnerships, or innovation programs.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product management, finance, and executive stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and data-driven decision-making methodologies.