Staff, AI Software Product Management

Qualcomm Incorporated; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a Senior Product Manager to direct product strategy from conception through end of life.

You will lead cross-functional teams across design, process, manufacturing, quality, and marketing to drive roadmaps and complex product launches. The role requires 5+ years in product management, strong market analysis, and capability to communicate roadmap plans to executives.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Identify gaps in market based on complex analyses of market, customer, technology, and other ecosystem demands and provide information to guide design conversations.
• Lead team collaboration in the creation of business cases and validate cases for development of a new, complex product to ensure alignment with roadmap.
• Market new and complex products and technologies through technical marketing opportunities and drive product launch efforts.
• Prepare and deliver highly complex technical presentations regarding a product roadmap to customers.
• Translate customer feedback and external environment into changes for the differentiated product roadmap and communicate to senior leaders.
• Direct and oversee the development of highly complex products or new product areas and services, independently; maintain cross-functional communication.
• Complete product development and definition activities for new or highly complex products, including cost/impact, and interact with sales to forecast.
• Stay up-to-date on competitors and technology, and lead development and design innovation to differentiate products for customers.
• Communicate product plans to leadership to ensure cross-functional understanding of roadmaps.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration by meeting KPIs and specifications for new products upon engineering delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop product goals and facilitate cross-functional decision making.

Skills

Product management

Market analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT

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.

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:

• 10+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• 3+ years of working in a large matrixed organization.
• 2+ years of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• 2+ years of negotiating 3rd party business agreements.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

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

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EEO Employer:

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

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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 .