CPU SW Staff Program Manager

Qualcomm; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Program Manager to lead cutting-edge software and hardware projects. This role involves driving program execution from inception to delivery, collaborating with diverse teams, and ensuring alignment across stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the semiconductor industry, strong technical acumen, and the ability to manage complex projects effectively. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will significantly impact innovative product development and execution. Embrace the opportunity to shape the future of technology in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Competitive annual discretionary bonus

Annual RSU grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software product development and program management.
• Strong technical understanding of software deliverables and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Drive requirements scoping, analysis, and planning across tech teams.
• Develop program indicators to manage health including quality and timelines.

Skills

Semiconductors/Embedded Software

Software Product Development

Program Management

End-to-End Product Integration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Master's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management

General Summary:

Develops, defines, and executes plans of record, including: schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables, and risks. Monitors and drives the program from initiation through delivery, interfacing with internal and external stakeholders across functions on technical matters, as needed. Monitors budget/spending, on-time delivery, and achievement of program milestones. Represents the program and drives alignment across stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Excellent opportunity to work on the latest cutting edge software, hardware technologies
• Drive requirements scoping, analysis and planning including interdependencies, staffing constraints and schedule optimization across multiple tech teams and customer connect
• Establish clear Plan of Record commitment and drive prioritization
• Strong technical understanding of SW deliverables and risk management/risk mitigation
• Establish rigorous execution discipline & communications process: risk management, mitigation, tracking, schedule trends vs baseline, recovery actions, executive reporting & stakeholder communications
• Develop program indicators to manage program health including quality and timelines
• Partner with other functional areas to establish critical processes to support disciplined product development and decision making and to ensure quality. Coordination across multiple development sites may be required
• Develop and establish strong processes that streamline the development cycle and help integrate multiple plans, dependencies and deliverables effectively
• Develop metrics driven dashboards/structures/boards in JIRA to track program health and team execution towards programs

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.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience and domain knowledge ofSemiconductors/EmbeddedSW is a must
• 8+ years of experience in a combination of Software product development and program management insemiconductor/SW industry
• Experience with end to end product integration
• Experience managing software products through entire development life cycle

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• PMP Certification and/or Agile Certification
• 10+ years Agile Program Management experience or related work experience.
• 2+ year's experience with agile program management tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• 5+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 3+ year's experience working in a large matrixed organization.
• 3+ year's experience with firmware development

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$197,000.00 - $295,400.00

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