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The Role and Impact:

Intel's Consumer Industries vertical focuses on enabling intelligent, secure, and reliable transactional devices across the retail, grocery, hospitality, venues, and retail banking ecosystem. As workloads increasingly move closer to where data is generated and the industry is shifting toward edge native solutions that must operate within real-world constraints such as latency, data privacy, reliability, power, and regulatory compliance. In this dynamic position, you will also lead industry transformation with the design and development of integrated AI solutions that combine hardware, software, firmware, board, and silicon components, pushing technological boundaries to solve complex challenges that will transform vertical industries.

The Consumer Industries vertical team operates at the intersection of technology, industry, and ecosystem partners to translate these constraints into actionable roadmaps and deployable solutions across point of sale, self-checkout, ATMs and edge-enabled transactional platforms. Success requires tight alignment between forward looking roadmap strategy, AI enablement, and practical solution definition, ensuring innovation at the edge can be validated, scaled, and adopted in real retail and service environments.

We are seekinga Solution Lead to operate across portfolio roadmap ownership and customer and partner-facing solution definition. This role is intentionally balanced between shaping long term strategic direction and driving near-term solution clarity, ensuring strategic intent translates into executable, scalable growth and business outcomes. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience, is comfortable navigating ambiguity, and can align product, engineering, and go-to-market stakeholders around clear priorities grounded in vertical industry needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Roadmap Planning and Portfolio Alignment

Own and drive roadmap requirements aligned to business objectives, device strategies, market needs, and technology readiness.

Translate industry trends, customer insights, regulatory considerations, and internal constraints into clear roadmap priorities and tradeoffs.

Partner closely with product management, engineering, and architecture teams to ensure feasibility, dependency management, and alignment with platform strategies.

Support annual and quarterly planning cycles by developing roadmap narratives, options, and scenario analyses for leadership decision making.

Identify portfolio gaps, overlaps, and risks, and proactively drives alignment and prioritization discussions across stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or equivalent discipline; or a master's degree with 6+ years of experience;or an MBA with 6+ years of experience or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of experience in theretail industry developing checkout or transactional systems and solutions, or the retail ecosystem designing retail devices or solutions, including point of sale, self-checkout, or transactional systems.

• 4+ years of experience in product management, platform, or solution roadmap planning, or solution strategy.

• 2+ years of experience translating ambiguous market signals into structured priorities, roadmaps, and solution direction.

This position is not eligible for Intel's immigration sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across teams and disciplines.

• A passion for solving complex problems and driving technological advancements in AI, edge computing, or data-intensive workloads in consumer-facing industries or retail environments.

• Understanding of regulatory, privacy, and reliability considerations for transactional systems.

• Experience engaging directly with customers, partners, or ecosystem stakeholders in a technical or strategic role.

• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, architecture, and go-to-market teams.

• Excellent executive-level communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around complex tradeoffs.