Corporate Development Associate- DC​/Energy

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Data Center Strategy & Acquisition Associate

Santa Clara California | Regular Salaried |

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At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers to PCs, gaming, and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we pursue bold ideas with execution excellence while remaining direct, humble, inclusive, and focused on solving the world’s most important challenges. Together, we advance your career.

AMD’s Corporate Development and Data Center Strategy organization is seeking an DC Strategy & Acquisition Associate to support the evaluation and execution of data center power and strategic partnership opportunities. This role is the analytical and program-management engine behind the team’s opportunity pipeline, providing the research, diligence, financial analysis, reporting, and cross-functional coordination required for timely decisions and successful execution.

The Associate will help move projects from market screening and early diligence through commercial evaluation, contract negotiation, approval, and readiness tracking. The role will coordinate stakeholders across AMD and work with external data center providers, utilities, developers, cloud service providers, neoclouds, advisors, and other strategic partners.

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, results-driven professional with strong financial modeling, program management, and communication skills. This person is comfortable organizing complex work streams, identifying issues early, and converting market, technical, financial, and contractual information into clear recommendations. The successful candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, collaborates effective across functions, and maintains close attention to detail while managing multiple priorities.

• Conduct market scans, lead qualification, and preliminary assessments of power availability, delivery timing, site readiness, counter party capability, commercial terms, and project economics during prospecting and early diligence.
• Program-manage the data center power and partnerships pipeline, including workplans, milestones, dependencies, decision gates, risks, action items, and owners across multiple concurrent projects.
• Prepare and distribute clear project-status updates for leadership and cross-functional teams, highlighting progress, upcoming decisions, schedule changes, critical risks, mitigation plans, and required actions.
• Coordinate commercial, financial, technical, legal, credit, real estate, and operational due diligence; maintain diligence trackers, manage information requests, organize data rooms, and drive issues to resolution.
• Support contract negotiations by preparing term comparisons, issue lists, negotiation materials, economic analyses, and proposed business positions; track open points and coordinate input from Legal, Finance, Engineering, and other stakeholders through execution.
• Drive stakeholder management across AMD by establishing meeting cadences, aligning functional requirements, documenting decisions, escalating blockers, and ensuring accountable…