IP Customer Program Manager
Santa Clara · United States · USD 100,000-500,000 · Hybrid · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Santa Clara · United States
- Salary
- USD 100,000-500,000 · OTE
About the role
- Tenstorrent is seeking a driven and passionate IP Customer Program Manager within the Product Group to align the strategy and development of the customer journey with IP products.
- The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams including Technical Program Management, Engineering, Architecture, Product Management, and Sales to deliver Accelerated Compute IP solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day coordination and communication between customers and IP Product and Engineering teams.
- Align product milestones, deliverables, and customer engagement plans with product strategy and the signed statement of work.
- Coordinate architects, design teams, software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver agreed actions and commitments.
- Establish and maintain program plans, goals, tracking processes, and customer service-level agreements, including turnaround times and escalation paths.
- Lead program reviews, communicate status and risks to senior leaders and stakeholders, identify improvement areas, and drive corrective actions.
- Use AI tools where they can improve program processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Five or more years of customer program management experience, ideally supporting IP products or semiconductor technologies.
- Experience in CPU, SoC, or silicon development as an engineer, technical lead, or program manager, and ability to engage comfortably with technical teams.
- Ability to translate technical details into clear status, dependencies, trade-offs, and executive-ready updates.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Compute IP products with a background in Arm, RISC-V, x86, AI accelerator, subsystem IPs, or GPU IPs from a customer focused perspective.
- Experience with AI inference or training technologies.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, or Confluence.
Workplace
- This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX, Fort Collins, CO, Santa Clara, CA or Toronto, ON.
Skills
- Jira
- Asana
- Smartsheet
- Confluence
- Arm
- RISC-V
- X86