Qualcomm Director Software Product Management 

United States, California, San Diego 

98857747

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

The successful candidate will define software product requirements, analyze business opportunities, perform gap analysis, drive execution, and help with go-to-market plans and global customer engagements.

Principal Requirements and Responsibilities:

• Define and execute software roadmap for Server SoCs

• Review identified gaps in market based on complex analyses of overall ecosystem demands and makes portfolio decisions on how these gaps impact product roadmaps

• Engage with Customers, ODMs and other stakeholders to gather feedback and identify critical needs that feed as requirements to be supported

• Create and maintain a detailed Software product roadmap that outlines key milestones, feature sets and timelines

• Lead collaboration with industry partners on emerging technologies, including areas of modern operating system constructs, security, hypervisors, memory, storage, RAS, system manageability, networking, energy efficiency, and system disaggregation.

• Prioritize features and enhancements based on market demands, customer feedback, technical feasibility, and strategic importance.

• Provide technical guidance on HW feature capability supported on server SW stack to customer and work closely with technical support teams to resolve problems efficiently and in a timely manner.

• Facilitate collaboration between software engineering teams, hardware teams, quality assurance, marketing, and sales to ensure aligned objectives and smooth execution.

• Maintain transparent communication with all stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, risks, and changes in plans.

• Ensure comprehensive documentation of requirements, technical specifications, user guides, and release notes.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• 4+ 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.

Level of Responsibility:

• Working independently with no supervision.

• Making decisions that are significant in impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; 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. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Some financial accountability (e.g., manages a small budget, has input into P&L).

• Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that have substantial impact on the organization).

• 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.

• Regularly determines what needs to be done and is involved with sharing innovative solutions to achieve broad policies and objectives.

• 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.

• Develops, redesigns organizational strategies and provides overall direction for various functional areas and/or entire organization. Has influence over the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.

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.

$196,000.00 - $294,000.00