Technology Chief of Staff Governance and Technical Program Management

The IC Technology Chief of Staff provides strategic leadership for Technology Development governance, portfolio management, financial planning, resource allocation, and selected technology-development programs.

The IC Technology Chief of Staff provides strategic leadership for Technology Development governance, portfolio management, financial planning, resource allocation, and selected technology-development programs. The role is responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the governance framework used to manage semiconductor technology-development activities from technology roadmap creation and early pathfinding through Proof of Concept (POC), Technology Development and Approval (TD&A), Qualification, Manufacturing Release, and Ramp.

The position serves as a central integration point across Technology Development, IP Development, New Product Development (NPD), Manufacturing, Reliability, Quality, Finance, and Business Units to ensure alignment of development objectives, organizational priorities, investment plans, schedules, resource allocations, manufacturing readiness, and business commitments. The CoS develops governance processes, operating models, approval structures, metrics, and decision frameworks that enable effective execution of technology-development investments.

The role aligns technology strategy, Technology Maturity, development investments, portfolio priorities, business objectives, and executive decision processes. The position also leads Technology Development budgeting, forecasting, allocation, capacity planning, and investment management in partnership with Finance and technology leadership. Success requires semiconductor technical depth, governance expertise, financial acumen, strategic planning capability, executive communication skills, and the ability to influence organisational direction without direct reporting authority.

In addition to governance and organisational leadership responsibilities, the CoS leads selected technology-development programs and strategic initiatives requiring broad technical coordination and executive engagement.

• Technology Development Governance and Organizational Leadership
• Technology Development Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Resource Allocation
• Strategic Program Leadership
• Technology Roadmaps and Strategic Planning
• Executive Operations, Metrics, and Organizational Effectiveness

• Lead development, deployment, and continuous improvement of the Technology Development governance framework.
• Partner with Technology Development, IP Development, NPD, Manufacturing, Reliability, Quality, Finance, and Business Units to establish governance processes, approval structures, operating practices, deliverables, and decision gates.
• Define governance requirements, ownership models, approval authorities, evidence requirements, document-control expectations, and controlled-data-management practices.
• Establish and maintain alignment among development, product, manufacturing, quality, reliability, and financial-planning processes.
• Develop governance standards, templates, workflows, and operating models that improve execution effectiveness, increase accountability, reduce administrative burden, and accelerate milestone approvals.
• Ensure governance processes provide clear requirements, ownership, review expectations, approval criteria, and supporting evidence for development decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that simplify execution, eliminate duplicated documentation, improve data quality, and strengthen organisational effectiveness.
• Facilitate resolution of ownership conflicts, approval ambiguity, process inconsistencies, and cross-functional execution barriers.
• Serve as a principal advisor to leadership on governance strategy, process improvement, organisational effectiveness, and technology-development execution.

• Provide Technology Development budgeting, forecasting, allocation, and investment-planning processes in partnership with Finance and technology leadership.
• Develop and maintain annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, long-range plans, and technology-development investment projections.
• Maintain a strong understanding of corporate financial systems, accounting practices, allocation methodologies, budgeting processes, capital-planning…