Senior Product Manager - Server CPU

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

• 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.
• Able 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.
• 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).

Pay

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $188,330.00 - 265,870.00 USD

Schedule

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Location

US, Oregon, Hillsboro