Staff Product Manager, Product Planning

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

5d • $181,800 - $272,600

About The Position

The Product Planning team is seeking a leader to help advance Qualcomm Snapdragon performance, power consumption, and cost-efficient design. The Staff Product Manager will contribute to the Snapdragon roadmap across target markets including handsets, computing, automotive, Internet of Things, eXtended Reality, wearables, data center, and other applications.

The role combines technical and business knowledge of system-on-chip design and architecture with an understanding of chipset technologies such as CPU, GPU, NPU, DSP, multimedia, memory, cellular 5G/6G modems, low-power design, thermal management, wireless connectivity, sensors, and chiplet architectures. The position works with internal teams, partners, and customers to define and promote specifications for next-generation Snapdragon processors.

The role contributes to roadmap planning, aligns technology IP and business-unit product roadmaps, evaluates technology trends and competitors, and maintains and communicates roadmap documentation. It also drives chipset specification from the concept phase through executive approval of a program plan, balancing product features, performance, power, cost, resources, and schedule constraints. The position delivers recommendations to key decision-makers, including Chipset Product Management and Program Engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of Product Management or related work experience; completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may substitute for up to two years of work experience (Master’s degree for one year; doctorate for two years).
• Proven ability to manage large-scale projects and work across groups with diverse goals, priorities, and personalities to drive projects to completion.
• Understanding of mobile processing, multimedia, and graphics technologies, including technical fundamentals and industry standards, as well as industry players, value chains, and ecosystems.
• Strategic planning, vision, competitive analysis, positioning, and messaging skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional projects without formal reporting relationships and work collaboratively in a highly dynamic environment.
• Rigor and precision in managing frequently changing, complex, and sensitive data.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.
• At least 5 years of Product Management or related work experience in the wireless communications industry.
• At least 2 years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset roadmaps across product categories and target markets.
• Synchronize technology IP roadmaps with the Snapdragon product roadmap in collaboration with Technology IP Product Management teams.
• Align product roadmaps across business units to support technology reuse and cross-pollination.
• Identify and anticipate technology development trends and analyze competitor solutions.
• Maintain Snapdragon roadmap documentation and communicate it to executive and other organizational levels.
• Protect the integrity and security of roadmap data in accordance with company confidential information procedures.
• Help define competitive value propositions and high-level product specifications during the chipset concept phase.
• Collaborate with Technology Product Management teams to recommend technology options and trade-offs, considering features, performance, power, cost, resources, and program schedule constraints.
• Present recommendations to and secure buy-in from Chipset Product Management and Program Engineering decision-makers.

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for the annual bonus).
• Competitive benefits package designed to support employees at work, at home, and at play.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior