Principal Software Commercialization Program Manager - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 27 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Principal Software Commercialization Program Manager leads the commercialization and delivery of software solutions through AMD business and sales channels. You will work across business operations, engineering, product management, and sales to establish processes enabling software to move from development to customer distribution.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-functional programs supporting the commercialization and delivery of software through AMD business and sales channels. - Develop and drive operational processes needed to support software ordering, distribution, customer access, installation, licensing, and channel enablement. - Partner with business operations, engineering, product management, and sales to identify requirements, dependencies, risks, and milestones. - Establish and maintain clear program plans, priorities, schedules, dependencies, action items, and success measures. - Partner with software engineering teams to understand development roadmaps and ensure program execution aligns with product and business objectives. - Coordinate cross-functional dependencies and support sales and channel enablement to ensure software releases are positioned for delivery.
What you'll need
- Demonstrated program management experience within a large organization. - Experience with software commercialization, business operations, go-to-market processes, or software sales enablement. - Experience coordinating software ordering, licensing, distribution, delivery, or related commercialization processes. - Strong understanding of software development processes and experience partnering with engineering and technical teams. - Experience managing cross-functional programs involving multiple organizations, stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities. - Ability to develop and maintain program plans, schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, and executive-level reporting.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Project, and Excel. - Experience with Agile development methodologies. - Experience working within AMD or another semiconductor or technology organization. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business, or a related field. - PMP, Six Sigma, or similar program/process management certification.
Skills: program management, commercialization, software delivery, licensing, GTM
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
45
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$200k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (45 roles · 14 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 45 |
| Median days open | 30 d | 55 d (−25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $200k |
Skills observed across this category: program management, commercialization, software delivery, licensing, GTM
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 14 d
- Lam Research · 7 open roles · median 49 d
- AMD (this employer) · 5 open roles · median 56 d
- NVIDIA · 5 open roles · median 59 d
- Arm Holdings · 3 open roles · median 97 d
- Broadcom · 3 open roles · median 97 d
How we counted: 45 open Technical Program Management (Systems Software) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.