Sr. Director, Program Management -Data Center GPU Validation

You are an accomplished program-management leader with experience delivering complex silicon, systems, or large-scale computing platforms.

You combine strong technical understanding with disciplined execution, executive communication, and organizational leadership.

You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and are skilled at aligning diverse engineering and business teams around clear priorities and measurable outcomes.

You are a change leader who develops talent, improves operating models, and creates accountability across organizational boundaries.

• Lead end-to-end program planning and execution for Data Center GPU system and platform validation.
• Drive readiness across pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, system integration, BKC delivery, production qualification, and customer deployment.
• Establish integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, success criteria, and executive-level program dashboards.
• Identify critical-path risks early and drive cross-functional mitigation, escalation, and decision-making.
• Lead program governance and operating rhythms across global engineering, validation, and business organizations.
• Ensure clear ownership and accountability for deliverables spanning hardware, firmware, software, networking, systems, and clusters.
• Partner with engineering leaders to align resources and priorities across multiple concurrent programs.
• Drive continuous improvement based on lessons learned, execution metrics, and industry best practices.
• Lead readiness reviews and communicate program status, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior executives.
• Support critical customer engagements, escalations, and recovery plans as required.
• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing global program-management organization.
• Foster a culture of urgency, collaboration, transparency, and outcome-based accountability.

• Extensive program-management experience within the semiconductor, enterprise systems, cloud infrastructure, or high-performance computing industries.
• Proven success delivering complex SoC, server, GPU, platform, or cluster programs from definition through production.
• Experience with AI/ML accelerators, Data Center GPUs, HPC systems, or large-scale computing infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of silicon, hardware, firmware, software, system, and cluster-level integration.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, globally distributed, cross-functional organizations.
• Experience leading Directors, Sr Managers, Senior Program Managers, Managers, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong command of program planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, resource alignment, and executive governance.
• Proven ability to create clarity and drive decisions in highly complex and ambiguous environments.
• Track record of improving execution methodologies, operating models, and organizational scalability.
• Exceptional executive communication, influencing, negotiation, and cross functional Director, Sr. Directors, CVP & SVP stakeholder management skills
• Experience engaging with strategic customers and managing high-priority escalations.
• Ability to balance technical risk, schedule, quality, resources, and customer commitments.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

An advanced degree is preferred.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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