Portfolio and Product Planning Director – Roadmaps and Capacity

Overview

In this role you will lead Arm’s roadmap and capacity planning at enterprise scale, shaping governance and value-led decisions. You will manage a small team and collaborate with cross-functional partners to mature portfolio capabilities, data quality, and planning tooling. Your work will connect strategy to actionable roadmaps, ensuring readiness and informed investment decisions. This is a chance to drive impact across IP, silicon, CSS, SoC, and software while engaging senior leaders and enterprise portfolios. You will help Arm turn strategy into measurable delivery and value.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• accommodations during recruitment
• equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

• Define vision and operating model for roadmap and capacity planning, establishing governance and execution rhythm.
• Lead a small team covering roadmap, governance, capacity, and delivery planning.
• Collaborate with the Head of Portfolio and Product Planning to mature enterprise portfolio capabilities.
• Ensure roadmaps are standards-led, high quality, and used to inform portfolio, investment, lifecycle, and delivery decisions.
• Coordinate resource planning, prioritisation, and escalation processes across the organisation.
• Build frameworks linking capacity to strategic value, impact, risk, and product outcomes.
• Lead scenario planning for demand, staffing, timing, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Support product and solution approvals and readiness across the lifecycle.
• Partner with Business Units to prepare proposals for executives and the Portfolio Board.
• Influence senior stakeholders across Business Units, Engineering, Finance, Commercial, and Manufacturing.
• Balance agility and structure to scale planning, foster shared ownership, and enable constructive challenge.

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in portfolio management, product management, long-term planning, or business planning.
• Proven ability to set vision, build capability, lead a team, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Experience in roadmap governance, capacity planning, resource management, and investment prioritisation.
• Strong understanding of ERM tools, capacity planning processes, and value-led prioritisation.
• Excellent business judgement connecting demand, capacity, investment, lifecycle readiness, and outcomes.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across multiple functions and executive forums.
• Good understanding of the semiconductor industry and Arm’s product range.
• Ability to translate complex portfolio data into clear executive recommendations.

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Confidence in senior decision-making forums
• Constructive challenge and collaboration
• Portfolio management and roadmap governance
• Capacity planning and resource management
• Investment prioritisation and readiness reviews

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