Director, SW Product Management

Job Title

Director, SW Product Management

Role Summary

Lead software platform and ecosystem enablement for next-generation Arm technologies, focusing on platform software, firmware, OS enablement, and reference platforms to drive partner adoption.

This role operates across engineering, product, OEMs, silicon partners, and ecosystem teams to define software requirements, prioritise enablement, and ensure platform and software readiness for customer engagement and productisation.

Experience Level

Senior (Director-level). Years of experience not specified in the posting.

Responsibilities

Drive strategy, alignment, and execution to validate Arm technologies in software environments and enable adoption across partners and customers.

• Define and lead platform software, firmware, and reference build enablement strategy for Mobile and consumer compute platforms.
• Engage directly with customers, OEMs, and silicon partners to gather requirements and feedback, and translate them into software priorities.
• Align downstream validation (simulation, emulation, FPGA, testchip) with upstream ecosystem readiness across firmware, OS, and tooling.
• Ensure features are supported in key software stacks and release cycles, including Android, Linux, and Windows variants.
• Drive platform bring-up and feature validation across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
• Establish traceability from architecture intent to platform implementation, validation outcomes, and ecosystem preparedness.
• Build cross-team operating models to reduce ambiguity and delivery risk between downstream validation and upstream enablement.
• Prioritise features, trade-offs, and release timelines while representing software readiness to senior leadership and partners.
• Scale and lead teams for reference platform and firmware/platform enablement.

Requirements

Key qualifications required to perform in this role; preferred skills follow.

• Must-have: Proven software product leadership experience in platform software or ecosystem enablement in customer-facing settings.
• Must-have: Strong technical understanding of system software, firmware, platform bring-up, and OS enablement.
• Must-have: Experience defining and executing strategy that bridges early technology validation and productisation.
• Must-have: Ability to translate technical capabilities into partner value, concrete requirements, and implementation plans.
• Must-have: Strong partner management and cross-functional leadership skills; excellent written and verbal communication.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with Arm architecture and Arm-based SoCs.
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with client/compute platform bring-up across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with Android upstreaming, kernel enablement, performance tooling, telemetry, power methodology, or compiler/toolchain integration.
• Nice-to-have: Experience transitioning prototype or research code into stable, customer-ready software and managing release-alignment constraints.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Arm

Headquarters: Cambridge, United Kingdom

ARM is a global leader in semiconductor and software design, driving innovation in computing technology. The company specializes in designing processors and systems that provide the essential building blocks for electronic devices. ARM's architecture is widely used in smartphones, servers, and IoT devices, and its collaborative culture fosters bold thinking, diversity, and high-impact benefits for its talented workforce.