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.
• Influence product priorities within the Xeon portfolio using competitive intelligence, customer insights, and workload analysis.
• 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.
• 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, trade‑offs, 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Electrical / Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a 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 trade‑offs, and carrying consequences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead senior engineering stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to articulate a coherent product narrative that connects architecture intent, workload performance, competitive positioning, and customer value.
• MBA or equivalent experience translating technical trade‑offs into business, portfolio, and market implications.
• Direct experience with server or datacenter platform business involving CPU, memory, and I/O.
• Demonstrated 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).

Annual Salary Range (US): $188,330 – $265,870 USD. Compensation is determined by location and additional factors such as job‑related skills, experience and education.

Benefits include competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs covering health, retirement and vacation.

This role will be eligible for Intel’s hybrid work model, allowing employees to split time between on‑site and off‑site work.

Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. No recruitment or medical fees are required.

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.