Staff Program Manager

Qualcomm Incorporated; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 202,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

RSU grants

Job summary

Qualcomm Incorporated in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Principal Program Manager to lead software/firmware teams, guiding Agile plans, requirements scoping, and prioritization to deliver on schedule.

You will partner with stakeholders to define goals, manage health metrics and risks, and drive continuous improvement across programs with impact on business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of Program Management or related work experience.
• Completed advanced degrees may substitute for up to two years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive requirements scoping, analysis, and planning across multiple tech teams using Agile.
• Establish Plan of Record commitments and drive prioritization.
• Apply best practices through program initiation, planning, execution, and closing phases.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop goals and ensure on-time delivery.
• Develop and manage program health metrics and risk mitigation plans.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Program leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Jira

Confluence

PowerBI

Tableau

Job description

Principle Requirements and Responsibilities

Develop, define, and execute plans for 1 or more software/firmware teams:

• Drive requirements scoping, analysis, and planning including interdependencies, staffing constraints, and schedule optimization across multiple tech teams and customers using Agile best practices.
• Establish a clear Plan of Record commitment and drive prioritization.
• Apply consistency and best practices through program initiation, planning, execution, and closing phases, enabling business outcomes and benefits tracking.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and program sponsors to develop program goals, set the prioritization of deliverables, discuss involvement of business processes (e.g., program change management, communication), and drive decisions necessary for on-time delivery.

Manage program health and execution

• Proven technical understanding of SW deliverables and risk management/risk mitigation.
• Ability to establish rigorous execution discipline, Agile best practices, and communication processes including: risk management, mitigation, tracking, schedule trends vs baseline, recovery actions, executive reporting & stakeholder communication.
• Partner with other program managers to develop program indicators to manage program health including quality and timelines.
• Promote program vision and objectives within the team, ensure program objectives are met or exceeded, present program vision to management, and gain buy-in from stakeholders.

Additional responsibilities

• Develop and manage the execution of the program Plan of Record (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope) for multiple medium-sized programs which include schedule and resource forecasting, stakeholder identification, method and frequency of communication, scope, and prioritization.
• Establish key program metrics and manage teams to act outside their comfort zone to ensure program success when metrics deviate from Plan of Record.
• Drive teams to identify program issues/risks and create a risk mitigation plan for multiple medium-sized or a single complex program(s). Maintain and update the risk tracker.
• Autonomy: Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Communication: Use verbal and written skills to convey complex information to diverse audiences, including senior leadership and large groups.
• Influence: Have a notable impact on key organizational decisions by providing input to senior leadership.
• Task Management: Execute multi-step tasks requiring simultaneous cognitive abilities and memory management.
• Innovation: Exercise exceptional creativity to develop new ideas and innovative products/processes.
• Problem Solving: Use deductive and inductive reasoning to solve complex problems with advanced data analysis and interpretation.
• Strategic Planning: Occasionally partake in strategic planning affecting immediate operations within own area.

Minimum Qualifications

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

• Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• PMP Certification.
• 10+ years of Program Management or related work experience.
• 2+ years in chipset/firmware development, OR in AI development either in an engineering or program management role
• PMP Certification and/or Agile Certification
• 3+ years’ experience using agile program management tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Dashboards (Gantt charts, PowerBI, Tableau, etc.)

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$202,000.00 - $303,000.00

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.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity 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.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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