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

Business Group

At the Data Center Group (DCG), we're committed to delivering exceptional products and delighting our customers. We offer both broad-market Xeon-based solutions and custom x86-based products, ensuring tailored innovation for diverse needs across general-purpose compute, web services, HPC, and AI-accelerated systems. Our charter encompasses defining business strategy and roadmaps, product management, developing ecosystems and business opportunities, delivering strong financial performance, and reinvigorating x86 leadership.

Additional Information

Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. We do not charge any fees during our hiring process. Candidates should never be required to pay recruitment fees, medical examination fees, or any other charges as a condition of employment. If you are asked to pay any fees during our hiring process, please report this immediately to your recruiter.