Director, Product Management - Camera & Machine Vision

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks a Director of Product Management to own strategy, roadmap, and growth of its camera and machine-vision portfolio.

This leader will define differentiated processors and platforms for intelligent cameras, machine vision, video analytics, and vision-enabled IoT endpoints. The role requires deep knowledge of the camera value chain from sensors to ISP, video, Edge AI, software, and cloud or fleet integration, translating customer workflows into platform requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• Advanced degrees may substitute for up to two years of experience (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years).

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-generation product roadmap, segmentation, positioning, pricing inputs, business case, and lifecycle for machine-vision products.
• Define differentiated tiers for smart cameras and AI-enabled endpoints.
• Translate market and customer needs into requirements across sensors, ISP, video, and AI.
• Partner with sales, engineering, and marketing to convert requirements into revenue growth.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Camera/machine-vision domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

Qualcomm is seeking a Director of Product Management to own the strategy, roadmap, and growth of its camera and machine-vision portfolio. This leader will combine strong camera-market insight with hands-on product management to define differentiated processors and platforms for intelligent cameras, machine vision, video analytics, and vision-enabled IoT endpoints.

The ideal candidate understands the full camera value chain, from image sensors and optics through ISP, video, computer vision, Edge AI, software, and cloud or fleet integration. The role will translate customer workflows into processor and platform requirements, build trusted OEM and ecosystem relationships, and drive adoption across industrial machine vision, enterprise and commercial cameras, retail, Smart Cities, and other IoT camera markets.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio & Product Strategy

• Own the multi-generation product roadmap, segmentation, positioning, pricing inputs, business case, and lifecycle for products across machine-vision processors and platforms.
• Define differentiated tiers for smart cameras, machine-vision systems, video analytics, multi-camera platforms, and intelligent vision endpoints such as industrial machine vision, AI fleet camera, AI Dash camera
• Translate market and customer needs into requirements across image sensors, ISP and imaging quality, video encode/decode, NPU and computer vision, CPU/GPU, memory, I/O, connectivity, security, power, and thermal design.
• Work with chipset PDM, Software PDM, architecture, and engineering to align camera workloads, silicon capabilities, SDKs, reference hardware, and validation plans.

Customer, Ecosystem & Go-to-Market

• Engage camera OEMs, machine-vision companies, sensor vendors, lens and module partners, ODMs, ISVs, and AI ecosystem partners to shape roadmap priorities and accelerate adoption.
• Build lighthouse programs and repeatable platforms for industrial inspection, enterprise cameras, retail analytics, Smart Cities, and other vision-led IoT applications.
• Drive design wins from concept through launch by developing clear value propositions, competitive benchmarks, commercialization plans, and executive customer narratives.
• Partner with sales, business development, marketing, and engineering to convert customer requirements and ecosystem partnerships into scalable revenue growth.

Machine Vision & Edge AI Leadership

• Define requirements for image quality in difficult conditions, low-light and high-dynamic-range performance, LED-flicker mitigation, global-shutter and triggered capture, multi-camera synchronization, and predictable capture-to-decision latency.
• Work with Software PDM and Engineering to translate inspection, detection, tracking, classification, and video-understanding workloads into compute, memory, imaging, AI, and developer-tool requirements.
• Establish workload benchmarks and customer success criteria spanning accuracy, latency, throughput, power efficiency, reliability, and deployment at scale.

This is an office-based position located in San Diego, CA and is expected to comply with the company's onsite work policy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 8+ 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

• 20+ years of relevant experience in camera, imaging, machine vision, video, semiconductor product management, or related IoT markets.
• Demonstrated ownership of product strategy, roadmap, positioning, customer engagement, and product launches.
• Strong understanding of camera architecture, ISP, video, computer vision, Edge AI, sensors, interfaces, and software enablement.
• Track record of building customer and ecosystem relationships and leading cross-functional execution across engineering, software, sales, and business teams.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$198,200.00 - $297,400.00

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.