Deputy Director, Product Platforms

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The Deputy Director, Product Platforms will be the entrepreneurial product leader for a differentiated compute-platform portfolio. The role combines product vision, market insight, technical depth, customer leadership, ecosystem development, and commercial accountability. The successful candidate will turn reusable processor, memory, interconnect, security, safety, AI acceleration, I/O, software, and development-tool assets into compelling customizable platform families and derivative products that customers can adopt and scale.

This is not a product-planning-only role. The leader will engage deeply across hardware and software, work directly with customers and partners, drive disciplined product execution, and remain accountable for successful launches, design wins, adoption, and sustained revenue growth.

• Define and own the multi-year platform vision, product strategy, roadmap, business plan, and investment priorities for the 12nm compute portfolio.
• Maintain an architecture and IP-reuse strategy that is anchored in 12nm but can extend to an adjacent process node when supported by market demand, customer requirements, performance / power / cost needs, supply strategy, or portfolio economics.
• Translate market trends and customer use cases into platform requirements spanning CPU architecture, memory hierarchy, coherent interconnect / NoC, accelerators, high-speed I/O, security, functional safety, package, power, software, tools, and reference systems.
• Create a coherent platform family and derivative strategy rather than isolated one-off products; define where configuration, customer IP integration, chiplets, companion devices, or custom derivatives create differentiated value.
• Own product requirements, target specifications, competitive positioning, pricing strategy, business cases, lifecycle plans, and clear go / no-go recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional platform execution with architecture, silicon design, verification, physical design, DFT, package, test, validation, software, applications, operations, quality, finance, sales, and marketing.
• Drive the full launch process from concept and business approval through platform definition, development, pre-silicon enablement, sampling, production release, market launch, customer ramp, and post-launch optimization.
• Build the whole-product plan, including virtual platforms, FPGA prototypes, evaluation systems, SDKs, Linux / RTOS enablement, drivers, tool chains, reference designs, documentation, training, and field collateral.
• Develop and manage an ecosystem of processor / IP providers, EDA partners, OS and middleware vendors, toolchain and debug partners, design services firms, board partners, distributors, and application-domain partners.
• Establish executive-level relationships with strategic customers and partners; lead discovery, roadmap alignment, product definition, commercial framing, design-win strategy, and escalation resolution.
• Partner with sales and field teams to build the opportunity pipeline, segment target accounts, improve customer identification and win rate, and convert early engagements into design wins and production revenue.
• Own platform KPIs, including roadmap execution, launch readiness, design wins, qualified pipeline, ecosystem…