Product Manager, Staff - Software for IE IoT

$179,200 - $268,800/Yr

Qualcomm - San Diego, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Diego, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

Qualcomm is seeking a Staff Product Manager for Software in the Industrial and Embedded IoT Business Unit. This role involves defining and promoting Qualcomm chipsets for various IoT segments, analyzing business opportunities, and driving execution of software product requirements. The successful candidate will collaborate with customers, engineering, sales, and business development teams to prioritize use cases and manage the product lifecycle, while formulating long-term roadmaps for cost and profit control.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute software roadmap for Android based SoCs.
• Review identified gaps in the market based on complex analyses of overall ecosystem demands and make portfolio decisions on how these gaps impact product roadmaps.
• Work closely with chipset product managers to gather detailed requirements for each chipset, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance.
• Engage with customers, ODMs, and other stakeholders to gather feedback and identify critical needs that feed as requirements to be supported on the Android SW roadmap.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of needs of the various IoT market segments and create Software Package (SP) definition and component sharing strategy to maximize SP and SW component reuse.
• Create and maintain a detailed Software product roadmap that outlines key milestones, feature sets, and timelines.
• Provide technical guidance on HW feature capability supported on IoT Chipset to customers 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.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on market demands, customer feedback, technical feasibility, and strategic importance.
• Work with engineering teams to allocate resources effectively, ensuring a balance between feature development, bug fixing, and technical debt reduction.
• Explore opportunities to reduce the SW carrying cost and lowering upgrade cost.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

• Solid understanding of Android Product lifecycle, GMS, certifications.
• Deep understanding of Android software architecture.
• Advanced degree in engineering or computer science or MBA.
• 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.
• Deep knowledge of internals of various Linux based operating systems and distributions like Android, Ubuntu, Debian, RTOS.
• Effective communication skills with cross-functional teams, both technical and non-technical.

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants
• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support success at work, at home, and at play.