Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area:Operations Group, Operations Group > Product ManagementGeneral Summary: Qualcomm is a leading supplier of chipset platforms for IoT applications. You will be part of the team responsible for managing the IOT SW and Solutions roadmap , and driving a comprehensive product strategy with emphasis on software capabilities for IOT Products, specially focused on the Retail Industry, for example Rugged Handhelds, Payment Terminals, Smart Cameras etc. You will be promoting the technology, industry-leading trends, and directing those involved in design, modification and evaluation of all phases of the product.Responsibilities:
Reviews identified gaps in market based on complex analyses of overall ecosystem demands and makes portfolio decisions on how these gaps impact product roadmaps.
Validates business cases and determines relevance to organizational strategy; contributes to the creation of the product roadmap to advance organizational strategy and goals.
Translates customer needs, product roadmaps, and organizational strategy into successful product portfolios and facilitates decisions necessary for product delivery by partnering with cross-functional leaders.
Drives portfolio launch strategies and identifies technical marketing opportunities such as conferences, congresses, and direct customer contact and ensures successful product launch.
Reviews, prepares, and delivers technical presentations regarding product roadmaps, RFPs, and/or proposals to demonstrate and market product portfolios to customers and/or prospective customers, and integrates customer feedback into project roadmaps.
Drives effective cross-functional collaboration by ensuring that Engineering and other internal partners (i.e., program management) meet customer expectations, promised deadlines, and align with overall roadmap for product portfolio(s).
Drives communication plan and communicates appropriately with internal customers, third-party vendors, and senior management to build relationships, ensure alignment and buy-in, and achieve product goals as well as manage any planned changes.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field. 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree in a technical field such as engineering or computer science or equivalent experience
10+ years of Product Management or related work experience in embedded platforms including inferencing techniques on CPU, GPU or NPU
Experience with Wireless technologies like Wi-Fi, BLE and UWB
Experience with Software Architecture and Linux based OS frameworks.
Ability to collaborate with internal, and external stakeholders, to achieve extraordinary results
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Identifies gaps in market based on complex analyses of market, customer, technology, and other ecosystem demands and provides this information to guide design conversations. Leads team collaboration in the creation of business cases and validates cases for development of a new, complex product to ensure they are appropriate given business direction and asks appropriate questions to understand relevance of program to roadmap. Markets new and complex products and technologies through technical marketing opportunities such as conferences, congresses, and direct customer contact and drives product launch efforts. Prepares and delivers highly complex technical presentations regarding a product roadmap that explains and demonstrates products managed to customers. Translates customer feedback and external environment into potential changes for the differentiated product roadmap and communicates this to senior leaders. Directs and oversees the development of highly complex products or new products areas and services, independently; maintains communication with individuals across functional teams. Completes product development and definition activities for a new or highly complex, owned product, including determination of cost and impact, and interacts with sales team to generate forecasts. Holds self and team(s) accountable for remaining up to date on competitors, technological advances, and the product ecosystem and taking the lead on development and design innovation of new and complex products to articulate differentiation of products to customer and identify trends. Communicates regularly with leadership following a communication plan to ensure cross-functional understanding of product plans for a product line. Ensures successful cross-functional collaboration by ensuring that agreed upon KPIs and specifications are met for a new, complex product(s), upon delivery by engineering team. Collaborates with key stakeholders and program sponsors to develop product goals (e.g., performance, cost, timeline, customer schedules), discuss product feasibility, and facilitate cross-functional decision making for products they own.Level of Responsibility: Working independently with little supervision. Making 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. 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. 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. Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.The responsibilities of this role do not include: Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility).Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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