Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

Directs a comprehensive product strategy from product conception and definition through end of life. Functions as a central resource with design, process, manufacturing, quality, test, marketing, and distribution as the product(s) and/or product line(s) move through their lifecycle. Formulates and executes long-term roadmaps for cost/profit control. Promotes use of new technologies and industry-leading trends. Directs those involved in the design, modification, and evaluation of all phases of a specific product or group of products. Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle including modifications, upgrades, and maintenance of the product or product line.    

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:  
•    Define and execute software roadmap for mobile broadband and wireless networking products.

•    Identifies gaps in market based on complex analyses of market, customer, technology, and other ecosystem demands and provides this information to guide design conversations.

•    Identifies critical needs that feed as requirements to be supported on the SW roadmap. Ensures comprehensive documentation of requirements, technical specifications, user guides, and release notes.

•    Creates and maintain a detailed Software product roadmap that outlines key milestones, feature sets and timelines.
•    Leads team collaboration in the creation of business cases and validates cases for development of a new, complex product to ensure they are appropriate given business direction and asks appropriate questions to understand relevance of program to roadmap.
•    Markets new and complex products and technologies through technical marketing opportunities such as conferences, congresses, and direct customer contact and drives product launch efforts. 
•    Prepares and delivers highly complex technical presentations regarding a product roadmap that explains and demonstrates products managed to customers.
•    Translates customer feedback and external environment into potential changes for the differentiated product roadmap and communicates this to senior leaders. 
•    Directs and oversees the development of highly complex products or new products areas and services, independently; maintains communication with individuals across functional teams.
•    Completes product development and definition activities for a new or highly complex, owned product, including determination of cost and impact, and interacts with sales team to generate forecasts.
•    Holds self and team(s) accountable for remaining up to date on competitors, technological advances, and the product ecosystem and taking the lead on development and design innovation of new and complex products to articulate differentiation of products to customer and identify trends.
•    Communicates regularly with leadership following a communication plan to ensure cross-functional understanding of product plans for a product line. 
•    Ensures successful cross-functional collaboration by ensuring that agreed upon KPIs and specifications are met for a new, complex product(s), upon delivery by engineering team. 
•    Collaborates with key stakeholders and program sponsors to develop product goals (e.g., performance, cost, timeline, customer schedules), discuss product feasibility, and facilitate cross-functional decision making for products they own.

Level of Responsibility:  
•    Working independently with little supervision.
•    Making decisions that are significant in impact; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct. 
•    Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
•    Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
•    Completing tasks that require multiple steps that can be performed in various orders; tasks require simultaneously executing multiple cognitive abilities and maintaining information in short- or long-term memory.
•    Exercising exceptional creativity to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/processes without established objectives or known parameters.
•    Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required. 
•    Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:  
•    Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
• 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in engineering or computer science or MBA
• 10+ years of Product Management managing complete lifecycle of products from concept to launch, defining product requirements and working with cross-functional teams, both technical and non-technical.
• Product management experience with Fixed Wireless Access and/or WiFi gateway products
• Experience with software architecture design and good understanding of Linux-based operating systems and distributions like OpenWRT and Yocto Embedded Linux
• Experience with RDK-B and prplOS open-source frameworks for CPE and gateway products 
• Experience with Cellular (4G/5G), WiFi (6/6E/7) and BLE technologies and standards

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$179,200.00 - $268,800.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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