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ADVANCE THE WORLD.\nAt AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.\nWhether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger - technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.\nWHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING\nAt 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.\nThe Role\nAMD’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.\nThe 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.\nThe Person\nThe ideal candidate is a highly motivated, results-driven professional with strong financial modeling, program management, and communication skills. This person is comfortable organizing complex workstreams, identifying issues early, and converting market, technical, financial, and contractual information into clear recommendations. The successful candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, collaborates effectively across functions, and maintains close attention to detail while managing multiple priorities.\nKey Responsibilities\nConduct market scans, lead qualification, and preliminary assessments of power availability, delivery timing, site readiness, counterparty capability, commercial terms, and project economics during prospecting and early diligence.\nProgram-manage the data center power and partnerships pipeline, including workplans, milestones, dependencies, decision gates, risks, action items, and owners across multiple concurrent projects.\nPrepare 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.\nCoordinate 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.\nSupport 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.\nDrive stakeholder management across AMD by establishing meeting cadences, aligning functional requirements, documenting decisions, escalating blockers, and ensuring accountable follow-through against agreed timelines.\nMaintain the opportunity tracker and executive dashboard; update aging, conversion, capacity, schedule, pipeline stage, No-Go dispositions, financial exposure, and other performance metrics; produce weekly and phase-gate reports.\nPrepare materials for decision gates, including ROFR documentation, Go or No-Go packages, selection-criteria analyses, site-readiness filters, and executive presentations.\nResearch off-takers, landlords, developers, neoclouds, utilities, power-delivery timelines, partnership structures, and competitive landscapes; compile market and transaction benchmarks.\nGather and validate financial data and build or maintain models covering project economics, NPV, ROI, TCO, cash flows, sensitivities, and scenario comparisons; prepare concise risk and opportunity summaries.\nTrack readiness-phase progress, including partner deliverables, power-on forecasts, permitting and construction milestones, contractual obligations, and dependencies that may affect capacity delivery.\nSupport ad hoc strategic analysis, transaction evaluation, and deck creation for executive briefings and investment or approval discussions.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, Real Estate, Energy, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nExperience in data center industry, strategy, corporate development, investment banking, consulting, program management, infrastructure, energy, commercial real estate, or another analytical role; relevant graduate-school experience and internships may be considered.\nExperience performing financial, market, or commercial analysis and developing decision-ready recommendations.\nStrong Excel and PowerPoint capabilities, including financial modeling, data synthesis, and executive-level presentation development.\nDemonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional workstreams, manage project status, and communicate effectively with stakeholders at different levels of an organization.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMBA or other relevant graduate degree, or a strong undergraduate record combined with relevant internship or professional experience.\nExperience supporting due diligence, commercial negotiations, strategic partnerships, or transaction execution.\nExposure to data centers, utilities, power markets, infrastructure, real estate, cloud services, or the GPU and AI supply chain.\nUnderstanding of data center power-delivery fundamentals, including utility engagement, interconnection, capacity timing, infrastructure readiness, and key commercial dependencies.\nExperience with Power BI, Tableau, or comparable data-visualization and dashboard tools.\nStrong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to maintain accurate records and manage multiple priorities under tight timelines.\nAbility to synthesize complex quantitative and qualitative information into clear insights, visuals, and concise written recommendations.\nCollaborative, proactive working style with sound judgment and the ability to build alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nThis role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.\n#LI-SD1\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.\nAMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.\n\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nWHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING\nAt 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.\nThe Role\nAMD’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.\nThe 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.\nThe Person\nThe ideal candidate is a highly motivated, results-driven professional with strong financial modeling, program management, and communication skills. This person is comfortable organizing complex workstreams, identifying issues early, and converting market, technical, financial, and contractual information into clear recommendations. 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