Platform Architecture Manager

Job Details:

Job Description:

This position is in the Silicon and Platform Engineering, Platform and Experience Architecture, PXA team. This team is responsible for defining experience driven client platforms that delight customers and drive business success. This role is for the Platform Architecture Manager and leader of the Platform Workflow and Competitive Analysis team which exists to translate outside-in insights into platform requirements that define winning client PC experiences. Under a single-umbrella of leadership, PWCAs responsibilities are focused on integrating UX research, ecosystem engagement, competitive analysis, UX workflow development, and data collection into a single operating model that improves PXA's ability to make fast, evidence-based architecture and roadmap decisions.

PWCA integrates diverse functions and expertise to uncover insights and translate a data-backed vision into actionable recommendations for complex technology and product roadmap decisions. Its leader must build a cohesive team, foster a strong culture, and establish a decision-making framework that aligns diverse projects and expertise in an open-ended environment requiring long-term, multidisciplinary research and analysis. The qualifications below reflect the experience and capabilities needed to succeed in this role.

Experience

• Experienced managing 10-20 person teams with varied deep areas of expertise
• Intuitively grasps the unique timelines of IP, SOC, and Platform development and the key moments of intercepting different inputs into the development cycles
• Proven ability to apply user experience research methods and lead the collection, synthesis, and management of insights from users, customers, and ecosystem partners to inform platform and roadmap decisions
• Proven experience leading competitive analysis across products and technologies, translating findings into differentiated platform requirements and roadmap recommendations
• Well-suited for representing a large organization in external customer and partner meetings
• Experienced within a highly matrixed environment
• Nice to have: Experienced in transforming or improving team cohesion through the usage of AI tooling in a knowledge worker environment

Skillset

• Well-versed and deeply knowledgeable about the history of the PC industry, it's key technologies, usages, personas, and the ecosystem of software partners that drive technologies forward
• Proven ability to think strategically and merge disparate knowledge and research into clearly articulated action
• Strong working knowledge of user experience research methods, including framing research questions, selecting appropriate qualitative and quantitative approaches, evaluating research quality, and translating findings into actionable experience and platform requirements
• Knowledge of competitive analysis techniques in the semiconductor industry, spanning IP feature-set, SOC floor plan and implementation, and high-level strategic direction analysis
• Comfortable in aiding highly knowledgeable researchers in constraining their thinking and analysis towards an end goal or recommendation
• Deep expertise of foundational performance metrics in the world of high performance and personal computing
• Foundational understanding of PC systems architecture, spanning: Compute, Display, Media, Graphics, IO, Storage, Memory, Networking, and the associated Software Stacks
• Experience managing teams
• UX (ethnographic research) experience either by education or by work experience

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years working within the PC industry across hardware and software solutions
• BS computer engineering, computer science etc,

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

US, California, Folsom

Additional Locations:

US, Arizona, Phoenix, US, California, Santa Clara, US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

This role is a Position of Trust. Should you accept this position, you must consent to and pass an extended Background Investigation, which includes (subject to country law), extended education, SEC sanctions, and additional criminal and civil checks. For internals, this investigation may or may not be completed prior to starting the position. For additional questions, please contact your Recruiter.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel.

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $190,610.00-361,480.00 USDThe range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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