Program Manager

**Program Manager**:

- VANCOUVER, Canada
- Engineering
- 64863
- CAD $139,200.00/Yr.
- CAD $208,800.00/Yr.

**Job Description**:
**WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING**
- We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences - the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.
- AMD together we advance_

**THE ROLE**:

- We are in search of an experienced program manager with strong analytical, problem-solving and risk management skills. Ability to work efficiently and manage effective relationships in a cross-functional organization to meet commitments for successful customer program launches. Must be self-directed and work in complex and dynamic ecosystems.

**THE PERSON**:

- As a Program Manager you will partner with our cross-functional teams to manage relationships with (internal) customers. Establish relationships and understand (internal) customer requirements and program schedules. Drive IP deliverable and align with ( internal ) customers’ requirements to ensure successful product execution.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Defines, plans and drives projects and program plans based on management and senior technical guidance
- Has responsibility for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas
- Initiates significant changes to existing processes and methods to improve project and team efficiency
- Creates and maintains project management artifacts such as schedule, resource and resource forecast, risk and issues logs
- Provides unique views of project status updates and facilitates cross development team dependencies and communications
- Identify action or mitigation plans for issues or risks that arise during the project lifecycle
- Collaborates with core teams and execution teams to identify areas that require special attention or escalations to identify corrective actions
- Collect, analyze, organize and publish work performance data via dashboards and recurring status reports

**PREFERRED EXPERIENCE**:

- Experience in silicon or IP development desired
- Experience - Scrum, Agile methods; tracking tools ( Jira, Jama,)
- Business intelligence tools - PowerBI, EazyBI
- Process Automation Efficiency - including AI/ML, Python)
- Organizational tools - Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite
- Detailed oriented, self-driven with a strong sense of pride and ownership.
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, interpersonal, presentation, written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to build relationships and work effectively as a self-starter and as part of a team
- Proactively involve team members in planning, decision-making and execution efforts
- People management experience is desirable
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to handle all levels of interaction, including executive level
- Horizontal leadership/Matrix management experience
- Technical program management and customer relationship management
- Collaborate in problem solving and mitigating risks with Engineering, Program/Project Management, Business Units and Product Management - both internal and external

**ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS**:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering
- Formal project management education is a plus

**LOCATION**:Vancouver, BC ( open to Markham, ON)
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