Senior Strategic Technical Program Manager – Foundry Customer Programs

Senior Strategic Technical Manager

We are seeking a Senior Strategic Technical Manager to lead and manage high-impact foundry customer programs. This role serves as a critical bridge between customers and internal cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment across the end-to-end supply chain to successfully execute complex customer engagements.

Aligned with Intel's IDM 2.0 strategy, the ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, technical depth, and program leadership and leads both strategic planning and hands-on execution to ensure customer success. This individual will drive outcomes from initial engagement through production ramp while influencing internal stakeholders and enabling scalable execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end delivery of strategic foundry customer programs, from opportunity alignment through execution, ramp, and EOL.
• Act as the primary interface for key customers on program milestones, risks, and deliverables.
• Translate customer requirements into actionable internal execution plans.
• Lead both strategic planning and hands-on execution to ensure customer success across all program phases.
• Partner with business development, product, engineering, operations, and supply chain teams to align on customer deals and ensure seamless execution.
• Drive cross-functional coordination to resolve complex technical and operational challenges.
• Influence and develop alignment strategies across Marketing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Operations, and IT stakeholders.
• Influence prioritization and roadmap decisions based on customer needs and business impact.
• Lead alignment across the full supply chain (fab, OSAT, logistics, planning) to meet customer commitments on schedule, cost, and quality.
• Identify risks and bottlenecks early and drive mitigation strategies to ensure program success.
• Support capacity planning, demand forecasting, and execution readiness.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with strategic foundry customers.
• Serve as a thought partner to customers, advising on technical trade-offs and manufacturing considerations.
• Support escalation management and drive resolution for critical issues.
• Establish governance models, program tracking, and reporting mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement in program execution processes and tools.
• Ensure clear communication across all levels, including executive stakeholders.

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, or related technical field with 8+ years or advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in semiconductor, foundry, or advanced manufacturing environments.
• Proven track record managing complex, cross-functional customer programs.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes and supply chain ecosystems.

This position is not open to an Intel immigration sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working directly with foundry customers or fabless semiconductor companies.
• Knowledge of end-to-end silicon lifecycle (design fab assembly/test delivery).
• Ability to influence without authority in highly matrixed organizations.

Experienced Hire

Shift 1 (United States of America)

US, California, Santa Clara

US, Arizona, Phoenix, US, New Mexico, Albuquerque, US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Intel Foundry strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art while delighting our customers -- from delivering cutting-edge silicon process and packaging technology leadership for the AI era, enabling our customers to design leadership products, global manufacturing scale and supply chain, through the continuous yield improvements to advanced packaging all the way to final test and assembly. We ensure our foundry customers' products receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments.

Employees in the Foundry Technology Manufacturing are part of a worldwide factory network that designs, develops, manufactures, and assembly/test packages the compute devices to improve the lives of every person on Earth.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and…