Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management
General Summary:
Qualcomm is looking for a Director, Product Management - Software for its Industrial and Embedded IoT Business Unit to help define and promote Qualcomm chipsets for emerging use cases in various IoT segments. 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. In addition, the candidate is expected to prioritize use cases while working closely with customers, engineering, sales, and business development teams. Furthermore, the candidate will also 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. Lastly, the successful candidate will formulate and execute long-term roadmaps for cost/profit control and promote use of new technologies and industry-leading trends.
The position requires strong expertise in business and systems analysis, strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to collaborate and influence key stakeholders within Product Management team and across various functional teams.
The key responsibilities of this role include:
- Writing software product and functional requirements considering inputs from various internal and external stakeholders.
- Define scalable architecture for IoT applications built on Android, Yocto Embedded Linux, Ubuntu. Expertise in RT kernels and RTOS is a definite plus.
- Define the Linux software upstreaming strategy across various IPs, and partner with upstream community to ensure compliance of software frameworks used within the BSP.
- Define the software roadmap of features across various IoT business segments and publish plan for commercialization. Oversee successful cross-functional collaboration by ensuring the completion of milestones and ensuring the completed work aligns with roadmap for a product line(s)
- Drive an extensive ecosystem of third-party software developers while identifying opportunities for software reuse, and architecture innovation that result in software roadmap optimizations that drive an efficient engineering execution strategy and a clear go to market strategy.
- Make 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.
- Reviews and identifies gaps in market based on complex analyses of overall ecosystem demands and provides recommendations to address such gaps that impact product roadmaps.
- Reviews, prepares, and delivers technical presentations regarding product roadmaps, customer RFPs, and/or proposals to demonstrate and market product portfolios to customers and/or prospective customers, and integrates customer feedback into project roadmaps.
- Drives portfolios launch strategies and identifies technical marketing opportunities such as conferences, congresses, and direct customer contact and ensures successful product launch.
- Validates business cases and determines relevance to organizational strategy; contributes to the creation of the product roadmap to advance organizational strategy and goals.
- 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.
- Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
• 8+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in engineering or computer science or MBA
- Deep understanding of embedded software engineering principles
- Software Engineering background with in-depth knowledge of internals, system-architecture of various Linux based operating systems.
- Deep understanding of software frameworks, and distributions based on Linux (e.g. Yocto, Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian)
- 7+ years of software product management experience managing medium to large scale embedded systems projects.
- 10+ years of Product Management experience managing complete cycle of products from concept to commercialization, defining product requirements document, change requests and prioritization of commercial feature requests.
- Solid understanding of toolchains, package policies, boot flow, open-source frameworks, kernel, open-source community engagement and upstreaming procedures
- Solid understanding of containers, orchestration and virtualization
- Effective communication skills with cross functional teams, both technical and non-technical, within a fast-paced, collaborative, innovative environment, including experience in discussing complex ideas with partners, customers, and executives
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Pay range:
$189,000.00 - $284,000.00
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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer!
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