Semiconductor Manufacturing Ecosystem Manager
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management.
- Experience in semiconductors sourcing, agreement negotiation and supplier development.
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related technical field.
- 10 years of experience in semiconductor supply chain, foundry management, or strategic sourcing.
- 3 years of experience in direct people management and developing high-performing sourcing or operations teams.
- Experience managing Tier 1 foundry relationships and understanding of wafer pricing, yield dynamics, and advanced packaging economics.
- Experience negotiating agreements directly within the Korean or Japanese semiconductor ecosystems.
About the job
Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.
We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Responsibilities
- Lead the commercial and operational effort to bring foundry online as a high-volume second source. Partner closely with silicon engineering and legal to negotiate relevant agreement.
- Act as the primary commercial leader and country coordinator for semiconductors in the region. Navigate the business cultures of chaebols and keiretsus, building strong relationships to secure allocation during constrained market cycles.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for Ajinomoto Build-Up Film (ABF) substrates, advanced packaging (e.g., 2.5D/3D), and test hardware with key regional players.
- Manage the supplier relationships with major memory vendors. Ensure memory procurement strategies especially for critical, supply-constrained technologies like High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) are tightly integrated with our compute and AI silicon roadmaps.
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