Qualcomm Senior Product Manager 

United States, California, San Diego 

731456053

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Define and execute the product strategy for Qualcomm Sensing Hub, ensuring alignment with the company’s vision and market needs.

• Drive Qualcomm’s software development process, liaise across engineering and teams, create Feature Requests and own Software products; take the platform through any necessary stage-gate processes

• Manage the entire product lifecycle from planning to tactical activities.

• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify trends and opportunities.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate product strategy into detailed requirements.

• Work closely with sales and marketing teams to define product positioning and go-to-market strategies.

• Engage with customers and partners to gather feedback and incorporate it into product improvement.

• Collaborate with key partners and stakeholders to create buy-in for the product vision and roadmap.

• Develop Market Requirements for sensors software products across business units – handsets, compute, VR/AR, wearables, IoT.

• Develop and maintain the sensors software roadmap for development and delivery within Qualcomm platforms.

• Work with ecosystem partners, including sensors vendors and OS partners.

• Provide support for sensors software and sensors fusion algorithms across various business units.

• Ensure that Qualcomm platforms have clear sensors software requirements by coordinating with OEMs/customers, HLOS partners, Sales/Marketing, Customer Engineering and Product Management teams.

• Contribute to the sensors technology, product and platform strategy by supporting the various business units within Qualcomm.

• Coordinate competitive analysis of sensors technologies across all platforms.

• Drive the overall communication strategy and development of marketing collateral including documentation for internal use, customer support and for external marketing of sensors technologies.

• Coordinate product launch plans to launch sensors features, products and platforms including training, documentation, trade shows, and sales guide.

• Participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:

• Analytical Skills - The ability to collect information and identify fundamental patterns/trends in data. This includes the ability to gather, integrate, and interpret information from several sources.

• Building Trusting Relationships - The ability to build trusting, collaborative relationships and rapport with different types of people and businesses. This includes delivering on commitments and maintaining confidential information, as well as being approachable, showing interest in the other person, and relating well to people regardless of personality or background.

• Communication - The ability to convey information clearly and accurately, as well as choosing the most effective method of delivery (e.g., email, phone, face-to-face). This includes using a technically sound communication style both verbally and in writing.

• Creating the New and Different - The ability to be creative. This includes the ability to produce breakthrough ideas, being a visionary, managing innovation, seeing multiple futures, having broad interests and knowledge, and gaining support in order to translate new ideas into solutions. This also includes the ability to plan and implement unconventional ideas and speculate about alternative futures without all of the data.

• Decision-Making - The ability to make quick, accurate decisions. This includes the ability to weigh alternatives and take into account the impact of the decisions on people, equipment, or other resources.

• Getting Work Done - The ability to be organized, resourceful, and planful. This includes the ability to leverage multiple resources to get things done and lay out tasks in sufficient detail. This also includes the ability to get things done with fewer resources and in less time, work on multiple tasks at once without losing track, and foresee and plan around obstacles.

• Product Management - The ability to direct a comprehensive product strategy from product conception and definition through end of life. This includes the ability to function 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

• 4+ years of Product Management or related work experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• MBA or equivalent.

• 7+ years of product management or related work experience.

• 5+ years as sensors product manager or in a business role.

• 2+ years negotiating 3rd party business agreements.

• Deep understanding of sensor vendor market, supply chain

• Customer facing experience with presenting technology overviews, roadmaps and managing customer requirements.

• Strong critical thinking to produce innovative technologies and use-cases leading to successful feature and product launches.

• Working familiarity with Snapdragon chipset architecture and development.

• Experience working with or developing embedded products for smartphones, compute, etc.

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.

Pay range:

$152,000.00 - $228,000.00