Senior Director, Product Management - Customer Strategy & Solutions — Data Center Custom Silicon
$227,700 - $341,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 31 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This senior leadership role is responsible for defining customer engagement strategy, shaping strategic custom silicon opportunities, leading solution development for hyperscale and AI infrastructure customers, and governing the end-to-end process from opportunity creation through design win. The role influences custom silicon product, platform, connectivity, chiplet, packaging, memory, compute, and technology roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Lead strategic customer engagement activities with hyperscalers, AI infrastructure providers, and strategic semiconductor partners.
- Own customer solution strategy across custom silicon engagements, including oversight of requests for information, requests for quotation, statements of work, business proposals, and strategic customer engagements.
- Define opportunity strategy, customer prioritization, investment recommendations, and design-win plans for high-value custom silicon opportunities.
- Drive cross-functional alignment to develop competitive customer solutions for custom silicon opportunities.
- Partner with Finance, Sales, and Business Development on business cases, pricing strategies, non-recurring engineering models, and revenue planning.
- Lead the Customer Strategy & Solutions organization, providing leadership, prioritization, coaching, and operating discipline.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
- 10+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
Nice to have
- 15 years of semiconductor industry experience, including Product Management, Business Leadership, Strategic Marketing, Customer Solutions, or Business Development.
- Experience leading strategic customer engagements with hyperscale cloud providers, AI infrastructure companies, or strategic semiconductor customers.
- MBA or advanced technical degree.
- Demonstrated success leading complex custom silicon, infrastructure, networking, AI datacenter, or customer solution initiatives.
- Strong understanding of custom silicon development lifecycles, semiconductor business models, customer engagement models, and technology platform strategies.
- Deep knowledge of AI infrastructure and data center systems, including compute, connectivity, networking, memory technologies, chiplets, and advanced packaging.
Skills: Product Management, customer strategy, custom silicon, roadmap, AI infrastructure, chiplet, advanced packaging
This role has been open 44 days — slightly above the 43-day median for Product Management roles.
Product Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
38
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Median days open
43 d
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Median salary
$228k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (38 roles · 17 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 38 |
| Median days open | 43 d | 43 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $228k |
Skills observed across this category: Product Management, customer strategy, custom silicon, roadmap, AI infrastructure, chiplet
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 9 open roles · median 43 d
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 29 d
- GlobalFoundries · 4 open roles · median 30 d
- Intel Corporation · 2 open roles · median 36 d
- NVIDIA · 2 open roles · median 116 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 2 open roles · median 77 d
How we counted: 38 open Product Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.