Director, Business Operations – Silicon Planning

We are looking for a Business Operations Director to lead and optimize silicon build plans and strategies across all business segments. In this role you will join a very experienced team that combines business and operational skills with powerful analytical tools to position the company for growth. You will collaborate with the business segments to understand strategies, markets, strengths, and opportunities, and use this knowledge to identify ways to improve across the company. You will consolidate the company-wide build and supply plans, review it with our executive team, and engage with engineering and operations teams to develop optimal sourcing and supply chain plans. You will help guide the business segments on how to use the methodologies developed by our team and in turn keep refining and improving our tools and systems.

You will be part of a small, high-impact, high-visibility team coordinating operations, engineering, product management and finance across all business segments. We work with all levels of the organization, from engineering and product teams to ensure the roadmap is scalable for growth, to operations and finance teams to secure our supply base years ahead, as well as with our senior executive team. Our team manages tactical build plans to support our financial forecasts and works across organizations to optimize for improved financial performance. We engage with product managers on how to define the best products from a performance, supply and revenue perspective given our chip architecture. We guide product engineering and operations teams to implement chip supply plans that allow for maximum flexibility and revenue potential. To do all this optimally we look across the entire company portfolio of products and ensure alignment across all groups.

What you will be doing:

• Own company-wide build and supply plans for silicon. This entails managing wafer and product build plans, developing optimized test strategies with our product engineering team, and ensuring supply in coordination with Operations teams.

• Present to executive team on regular cadence, identify gaps and opportunities to optimize across the company.

• Work closely with Product Management teams to define our new product roadmap, guide the marketing team on launch plans and supply availability, and recommend changes where needed.

• Support the monthly forecasting process working with Sales teams and the Business Units and provide insight and guidance on what can be improved and optimized.

• Work with Business Units, Engineering, and Sales on competitive analysis, roadmap, and product strategies.

• Develop models and tools that provide insight into how we can steer our supply for maximum revenue contribution using a combination of business intelligence, data science, as well as advanced optimization tools.

What we need to see:

• Proven experience and understanding of silicon planning (wafer, die, packaging, test)

• Demonstrated experience operations management, supply chain management, product management, or equivalent.

• 15+ overall years of demonstrated experience.

• 8+ years of leadership experience.

• Excellent quantitative, analytical, and modeling skills.

• Understanding of optimization tools for supply-demand-optimization.

• Ability to work and communicate with senior executive level staff.

• Ability to deliver results in a multifaceted and matrix work environment.

• MBA combined with undergraduate degree (or equivalent experience) in engineering, science, or business/finance.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Self-starter with a demeanor for growth and continuous learning.

• Can find creative, out-of-the-box solutions and approaches to complex problems.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers! We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is 240,000 USD - 471,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.