Staff Product Manager, Product Planning

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

The Product Planning team is looking for a highly motivated leader who can take the success of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon to the next level, driving world leadership in performance, power consumption, and cost-efficient design. The Staff Product Manager, as a member of the Product Planning team, will be a key contributor to the Qualcomm Snapdragon roadmap for all target markets including Handsets, Computing, Automotive, Internet of Things, eXtended Reality, Wearables, Data Center, and others.

The successful candidate will have a combination of technical and business backgrounds in System-On-Chip design and architecture, as well as a high-level understanding of the technology building blocks of a state-of-the-art chipset, such as CPU, GPU, NPU, DSP, multimedia, memory, cellular 5G/6G modem, low power design, thermal management, wireless connectivity, sensors, chiplet architectures, etc.

The Staff Product Manager will work with internal teams, partners and customers to define and promote specifications for the next-generation Snapdragon processors for smartphones, consumer and enterprise computing devices, automotive applications, data center applications, smart glasses, augmented and virtual reality applications, wearables and IoT products.

   

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as a key contributor to the roadmap for all categories of Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets:
  • Participate in synchronizing the Technology IP roadmaps and the Snapdragon product roadmap, in close collaboration with the Technology IP Product Management teams. This workflow is driven by technology inflections, process technology, architecture and partitioning plans, standards, future use cases, extrapolation of trends and competition. 
  • Contribute to synchronization and alignment between the product roadmaps for the different Business Units, to ensure the most optimal reuse and cross-pollination of technologies among the BUs.
  • Identify and anticipate key technology development trends and analyze solutions from Qualcomm’s competitors.
  • Update and maintain the Snapdragon roadmap documentation. Communicate it to the executive and other levels of the Qualcomm organization.
  • Guarantee the integrity and security of the Snapdragon roadmap data, in accordance with Company Confidential Information procedures.
• Drive the specification of chipsets in the concept phase until a program plan of record is approved at the executive level:
  • Participate in the definition of a competitive value proposition and high-level product specification, ensuring balance and consistency between the multiple technologies embedded in the system.
  • Collaborate with all the Technology Product Management teams to define and recommend options and trade-offs for each technology in the system, taking into account features, performance, power, cost, resources, and program schedule constraints.
  • Deliver to and get buy-in from the key decision-makers: Chipset Product Management team and Program Engineering team responsible for the overall chipset PNL and execution.

Required Competencies

• Proven track record of successfully managing large-scale projects, working with people from various groups, managing diverse goals, priorities and personalities in driving a project forward to completion.
• Understanding of mobile processing, multimedia and graphics technologies including a technical perspective (technology fundamentals, industry standards) as well as business perspective (industry players, value chain, ecosystem).
• Strategic planning and vision, competitive analysis, positioning and messaging skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, a can-do attitude in a collaborative, highly dynamic environment, and an ability to lead cross-functional projects without formal reporting relationships.
• Rigor and precision in managing frequently changing, complex, sensitive data.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

*Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• 5+ years Product Management or related work experience in the wireless communications industry.
• 2+ years working in a large matrixed organization.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$181,800.00 - $272,600.00

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.

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