Senior Product Manager, Data Center

About the role

Intel is shaping the future of data center computing through technologies powering critical cloud, AI, enterprise, and high-performance computing workloads. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager, Data Center to drive the strategy, execution, and lifecycle of next-generation Intel® Xeon® products. This highly visible role operates at the intersection of technology, customers, and business strategy, translating market insights, customer needs, and technical trade-offs into product decisions that strengthen competitive positioning and deliver meaningful business outcomes. The ideal candidate combines deep technical acumen, strategic thinking, customer focus, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization. Primary location: Hillsboro, Oregon; additional locations: Phoenix, Arizona; Folsom, California; Santa Clara, California; Austin, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Own a Xeon product through its full lifecycle: product definition, planning, development, production, launch, and end‑of‑life.
• Serve as the central point of coordination across design, architecture, process technology, manufacturing, test, quality, and marketing.
• Maintain lifecycle accountability, including upgrades, feature changes, and product sustaining decisions.
• Apply competitive intelligence, customer insights, and workload analysis to influence product priorities within the broader Xeon portfolio framework.
• Partner with platform and system architects to assess emerging technologies and provide informed recommendations for future product investments.
• Translate customer and ecosystem feedback into actionable inputs for roadmap and feature decisions.
• Analyze the competitive landscape and define product positioning that clearly communicates customer value.
• Develop performance leadership narratives grounded in real workload KPIs, not just specifications.
• Support go‑to‑market planning and engage with customers and ecosystem partners to validate workloads, use cases, and performance targets.
• Own workload and KPI readiness gates, driving execution across validation, debug, and performance optimization teams.
• Represent product readiness, risks, and mitigation plans in executive and cross‑organizational reviews.
• Support global product launches in partnership with marketing, communications, PR, and sales enablement teams.
• Align engineering, marketing, manufacturing, and business stakeholders on priorities, tradeoffs, and definitions of success.
• Drive convergence across validation, debug, and performance teams to ensure outcomes reflect real customer requirements.
• Operate effectively in a highly matrixed environment, influencing without direct authority.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM related field with 7+ years of experience.
• 7+ years of experience in semiconductor product management, technical marketing, or product architecture.
• 7+ years of experience owning end‑to‑end hardware or platform products, including launch and lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated depth operating at the system or platform level.
• Proven track record owning product decisions under ambiguity — including setting success criteria, driving tradeoffs, and carrying consequences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead senior engineering stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to articulate a coherent product narrative that connects architecture intent, workload performance, competitive positioning, and customer value.
• MBA or equivalent experience translating technical tradeoffs into business, portfolio, and market implications.
• Direct experience with server or datacenter platform business involving CPU, memory, and I/O.
• Demonstrated exposure to hyperscale, CSP, or OEM/ODM customers or ecosystems.
• Hands‑on involvement with workload‑based performance or benchmarking frameworks (e.g., MLPerf, SPEC, TPC, or equivalent internal systems).

Benefits

Intel offers a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry, consisting of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation.

Pay

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $160,980.00 - $311,040.00 USD. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.