Head of Capacity Planning
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Head of Capacity Planning overseeing AMD GPU cloud capacity forecasting, allocation, and sellable inventory. Aligning infrastructure, sales, finance, and operations around reliable multi-year capacity plans.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain a single source of truth for total, committed, reserved, and available-to-sell capacity across every site and GPU generation.
- Reconcile physical fleet inventory against logical and contracted allocations.
- Standardize how capacity is defined, measured, and reported.
- Own demand pipeline and track contracted ramp, steady-state consumption, expiries, renewal probability, and take-or-pay floors.
- Define and publish sellable capacity by site, GPU type, and timeframe for Sales.
- Partner with Sales and Deal Desk to validate deal feasibility and flag oversubscription risks and allocation conflicts.
- Own the multi-year capacity strategy across Infrastructure Operations, Sales, Finance, and leadership.
- Anticipate capacity constraints and drive decisions on deployments, reservations, and site expansion.
- Own buffer and oversubscription policy with Operations and Finance.
- Translate sales pipeline and contracted growth into a rolling capacity forecast.
- Coordinate incoming racks, nodes, power, cooling, and network capacity with Infrastructure Operations, Global Operations, and supply chain.
- Run the weekly capacity review and produce weekly capacity reports and dashboards.
- Track committed versus available capacity with an auditable record of allocations and decisions.
- Assess and elevate capacity planning processes, standards, and workflows.
- Define and prioritize tooling requirements for capacity, inventory, and allocation systems, partnering with IT, Engineering, and vendors.
Requirements:
- 5+ years in capacity planning, supply and demand planning, S&OP, technical program management, or infrastructure operations, ideally in cloud, data center, or hardware-intensive environments.
- Working knowledge of data center and compute infrastructure fundamentals: racks, power and cooling constraints, servers and GPUs, and networking, with the ability to reason about both physical and logical capacity.
- Advanced modeling skills and comfort building forecasting and allocation models; strong data fluency (SQL and BI tools a plus).
- A track record of working across Sales, Finance, and Operations, translating technical constraints into commercial guidance that others can act on.
- Excellent written communication and the discipline to run a recurring operating cadence and produce clear, trusted reporting.
- Experience in GPU cloud, HPC, hyperscale, colocation, or semiconductor capacity environments preferred.
- Familiarity with Slurm and Kubernetes cluster capacity, GPU fleet management, and utilization metrics preferred.
- Experience writing requirements for and standing up DCIM, capacity, or inventory tooling preferred.
- Program management certification (PMP or equivalent) preferred.
- Authorization to work in the United States is required.
Benefits:
- Stock Options
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for Employees
- Company Health Savings Account Contributions
- 100% paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance for Employees
- Life and Voluntary Supplemental Insurance Options
- Other Insurance Options, such as Pet & Legal Insurance
- Various Supplementary Health Benefits, such as discounted Virtual Healthcare Appointments and Serious Illness Support
- Flexible Spending Account
- 401(k)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Other In-Office Perks

















