Portfolio and Product Planning Director – Roadmaps and Capacity

Portfolio and Product Planning Director – Roadmaps and Capacity Job Overview

Arm is at the centre of the world’s computing ecosystem. More than 350 billion Arm-based chips have shipped to date, and Arm’s compute platform supports innovation across cloud, AI, automotive, IoT, edge computing, and other major technology markets. (Arm)
As AI, silicon, software, and systems become more connected, Arm’s roadmap and product choices have enterprise-wide and industry-wide impact. This role presents a fantastic opportunity for an impact‑led portfolio leader to shape how Arm governs roadmaps, plans capacity, manages product approvals, and prioritises resources across the enterprise.
You will work within the Portfolio and Product Planning team, helping Arm turn strategy into roadmap choices, investment decisions, and delivery outcomes.
Are you ready for the challenge!?

• Lead Arm’s roadmap and capacity planning capability frameworks, setting the vision, operating model, governance, and execution rhythm.
• Run and develop a small team covering roadmap, portfolio governance, capacity, and delivery planning.
• Work with the Head of Portfolio and Product Planning to mature Arm’s enterprise portfolio and roadmap capabilities.
• Ensure roadmaps are standards‑led, high quality, decision‑ready, and actively used in portfolio, investment, lifecycle, and delivery decisions.
• Lead the coordination model for how Arm resources are planned, reviewed, prioritised, and raised.
• Build resource prioritisation frameworks that connect capacity to strategic value, business impact, delivery risk, and product outcomes.
• Lead roadmap and capacity scenario planning across demand, staffing, timing, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Support Arm product and solution approval and readiness activities across the lifecycle.
• Partner with Business Units to develop strong proposals for Arm executives and Portfolio Board.
• Influence senior collaborators across Business Units, Engineering, Finance, Commercial, and Manufacturing.
• Build the roadmap and capacity function by balancing agility with structure, creating shared ownership, using data and tools to scale, and encouraging constructive challenge.

• Significant experience in portfolio management, product management, long‑term planning, roadmap management, or business planning.
• Validated ability to set a vision, build capability, lead a team, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Experience in roadmap governance, capacity planning, resource management, product approvals, readiness reviews, or investment prioritisation.
• Strong understanding of ERM tools, capacity planning processes, and value‑led resource prioritisation frameworks.
• Strong business judgement, with the ability to connect roadmap demand, capacity constraints, investment choices, lifecycle readiness, and product outcomes.
• Experience influencing senior team members across Business Units, Engineering, Finance, Commercial, Operations, and executive forums.
• Good understanding of the semiconductor industry and Arm’s product range.
• Ability to turn complex portfolio data and product proposals into clear recommendations and executive narratives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and confidence operating in senior decision‑making forums.

• Experience with enterprise portfolio management or strategic portfolio management platforms.
• Experience implementing portfolio operating models, governance standards, lifecycle frameworks, or planning transformation.
• Experience connecting roadmap, capacity, finance, delivery, commercial, and manufacturing data into decision frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI‑enabled planning, reporting, or portfolio insight capabilities.

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