Overview:
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Responsibilities:
The Role:
As a key member of a dynamic AMD Embedded x86 Competitive Marketing team, this role will be responsible for competitive analysis, sales enablement, sales/field training and outbound competitive messaging for AMD AECG Embedded portfolio.
The Person:
The person in the role of Embedded x86 Competitive Marketing and Sales Enablement is an experienced, skilled, creative, detail-oriented and self-motivated team player. This person will be deeply steeped in the embedded x86 market—key technologies, key competitors, how customers evaluate Embedded x86 products and related tools, and knows how to quantitatively articulate technology and product advantages versus Embedded x86 competitors. This role works closely with technology and product marketing, sales enablement, performance engineering, architecture, legal and other business unit partners to document proof points and develop compelling competitive collateral.
Key Responsibilities
- Be the primary point of contact for consolidating and disseminating competitive information related to AECG Embedded x86 products, both internally and externally
- Develop and maintain compelling competitive collateral for AMD Embedded x86 portfolio.
- Provide the first line of response to sales and field teams by providing detailed competitive analysis that quantifies AMD Embedded x86 competitive position versus leading competitors.
- Generate, document, and guide legal approval of required competitive features, performance and efficiency claims for launch, industry events and other key competitive collateral.
- Contribute competitive and technical expertise to marketing, sales and training collateral.
- Evolve and create new trainings to help sales, field, channel and business unit partners become more familiar and empowered to sell based on superior AMD Embedded x86 features.
- Lead recurring cross functional competitive alignment meetings across the organization
- Track competitive developments and ensure timely competitive alerts and analysis are sent out to internal stakeholders
- Familiar with AI competitive technologies for Embedded x86 (across NPU/GPU/CPU): Understand use‑cases, models, datasets, metrics, and evidence thresholds that field can rely on for design wins.
Key skills
The ideal person is:
- Seasoned product marketing professional with 7+ years of Embedded x86 technology experience: Embedded x86 products, embedded x86 software tools and technologies.
- Analytical – can assess seemingly complex challenges and solutions with myriad facts and data points, and can identify those that are the most essential to the issue at hand.
- Creative – skilled in the ability to refine complexity into easily digestible information and to re-purpose relevant information without compromising integrity or veracity of data.
- Customer-centric – Realizes that we have multiple stakeholders— engineering, architecture, field, sales that are vital to success, and looks to include all of these stakeholders in developing compelling competitive collateral.
- A storyteller – can engage audiences of all types (verbally, in writing and in other formats) by telling easy-to-understand stories that deliver impactful statements of how AMD adaptive SoC products and technologies deliver exceptional value.
- Inquisitive – asks key questions and identifies critical details or omissions in competitive products and solutions that open the door to advantageous response by AMD.
- Responsive – Lets stakeholders know when the issue or questions is received and understood. Pro-actively sets and meets expectations for follow-up.
- Flexible – can self-prioritize and adjust based on changing business demands.
Preferred Experience:
Direct experience in any one of the following areas: Product Marketing/ Management, Field Applications, Competitive Marketing or Product Planning.- Prior experience with evaluating solutions from at least one or more competitors such as Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and ARM‑based SoCs/ASSPs.
- Strong skills in using Excel to aggregate data from disparate internal and external sources to build compelling competitive messaging.
- Detail oriented with strong affinity for identifying and articulating ways to demonstrate how technology and innovation enables customers take advantage of AMD Embedded x86 portfolio to meet their goals.
- Experience in developing compelling tools and collateral that establishes AMD Embedded x86 as a superior alternative versus competitors.
- Demonstrated knowledge of key Embedded x86 customer use cases and competitive benchmark metrics (performance, efficiency, features..)
- Experience in a large, fast growing, fast paced company and/or in the high-tech sector.
- Analytical skills and savvy to get to the most important aspects of an issue/opportunity.
- Demonstrated cross-functional communication, diplomacy, and relationship building skills.
- Agility and speed in decision making—but also comfortable in taking an iterative approach.
Academic Credentials:
- Degree/Major: Undergraduate or Master’s degree in Engineering, Marketing, Communication and/or related field required.
Location: Belfast, Ireland
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Qualifications:
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AMD 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.
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This posting is for an existing vacancy.
