Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Software Product Manager with a strong understanding of hardware, operating system (OS) software, platform SDKs, and tools, with special interest in open-source technologies. This role requires a strategic thinker who can bridge the gap between software and hardware development, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance of our products. Actively participates in development of comprehensive product strategy in platform software from product conception and definition through end of life. Promotes use of new technologies, standards, open source and industry-leading trends.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Roadmap: Develop and maintain the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with company goals and market demands. Reviews identified gaps in market based on complex analyses of overall ecosystem demands and makes portfolio decisions on how these gaps impact product roadmaps.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to define product requirements and deliver high-quality products. Drives effective cross-functional collaboration by ensuring that engineering and other internal partners (i.e., program management) meet customer expectations, promised deadlines, and align with overall roadmap for product portfolio(s). Drives communication plan and communicates appropriately with internal customers, third-party vendors, and senior management to build relationships, ensure alignment and buy-in, and achieve product goals as well as manage any planned changes.
• Requirement Gathering: Gather and prioritize product and customer requirements, translating them into detailed specifications. Validates business cases and determines relevance to organizational strategy; contributes to the creation of the product roadmap to advance organizational strategy and goals. Translates customer needs, product roadmaps, and organizational strategy into successful product portfolios and facilitates decisions necessary for product delivery by partnering with cross-functional leaders.
• Project Management: Oversee the product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.
• Technical Expertise: Leverage your understanding of hardware, OS software, platform SDKs, and open-source tools to guide product development and troubleshooting.
• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate product vision, progress, and updates to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment. Reviews, prepares, and delivers technical presentations regarding product roadmaps, RFPs, and/or proposals to demonstrate and market product portfolios to customers and/or prospective customers, and integrates customer feedback into project roadmaps.
• User Experience: Advocate for the end-user, ensuring the product delivers a seamless and intuitive experience.

Required Competencies

• Execution oriented and track record of driving on time Software deliverables to customers with aggressive schedules
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Passion to evangelize disruptive new technologies

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

• 10+ years of product management or engineering development experience in x86/Windows or ARM/Linux ecosystem, product development process, release cadence and geo specific partners. 
• Hands on knowledge of one or more of the followingdrivers, compilers, low level firmware, middleware, tools etc. 
• In depth understanding of consumer, commercial, enterprise software products, APIs, use cases, user experience, performance/power consumption etc.
• Direct experience with OEMs, OS vendors, ISVs, open-source community and product sustenance

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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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