Director, Strategic Marketing Alliances Ecosystem Strategy & Operations
About The Position
The Strategic Alliances organization within Marketing is bringing together Partner Marketing, Sponsorships, Snapdragon Insiders and Regional and Executive Engagement under a unified ecosystem strategy. This role serves as the strategic and operational backbone of Strategic Alliances. This is a builder role at the intersection of strategy, operations, and partner ecosystem design. This role will help define how the organization works: shaping structure, clarifying priorities, establishing operating rhythms, and ensuring strategic initiatives translate into measurable business impact. This role requires someone that brings structure to ambiguity, elevates decision‑making, manage competing priorities and incentives, and enables teams to move faster and more cohesively across a complex, matrixed environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.
- Associate's degree or equivalent degree and 10+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.
- High school Diploma or equivalent and 12+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, 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.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or Master's degree in related field.
- Proven experience in developing and communicating complex co-marketing strategies with measurable results.
- Proven experience leading matrixed teams and driving change to maximize impact to the business
- Strong executive presence; ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate business objectives into co-marketing strategy.
- Strong understanding of the technology industry, particularly in areas relevant to Qualcomm's business (e.g., mobile, IoT, automotive).
- Strategic thinker with a strong analytical mindset and a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly matrixed global environment.
- Ability to lead a high performing team
- Inspires team members and external stakeholders with innovative ideas. Creates new opportunities and focuses on impact.
- Translates the Strategic Alliances strategy into succinct and impactful messages that inspires and connects efforts to the broader partner vision and goals of the company.
Responsibilities
- Define the vision, structure, and operating model for a newly formed, Strategic Alliances, including partner segmentation, engagement models, and value exchange frameworks.
- Serve as an extension of the VP—supporting strategic planning, executive communications, narratives/updates, and leadership readiness.
- Define and institutionalize clear charters, roles and responsibilities across all Strategic Alliances (Partner Marketing, Sponsorships and Snapdragon Insiders and).
- Drive follow‑through on critical initiatives by orchestrating stakeholders, tracking progress, and resolving roadblocks.
- Lead North America marketing – create the NA marketing strategic plan in tight alignment with NA business priorities; own the relationship with NA leadership, orchestrating cross-functional alignment, event visibility, partner requests, budget coordination, executive engagements and additional business priorities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to C-suite and regional executives, coordinating and updating key business priorities, executive communications, and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to ensure alignment and execution against organizational goals.
- Define and institutionalize KPIs, success metrics, and operational dashboards across all Strategic Alliances’ disciplines.
- Establish a clear cadence for business reviews and capture learnings and continuously improve how the organization operates as it scales.
- Establish measurement frameworks that articulate partnership impact, ROI, and contribution to business outcomes.
- Synthesize insights from KPIs, partner performance, and regional insights to inform future strategy and investment decisions.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants
- Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
