Director, Product Management (AI)

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

Job Profile Summary

• Hands on experience with development and commercialization of advanced NPUs
• 8+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• EE or CS Master’s degree

Job Description

• Drive the development of the next-generation compute platforms supporting advanced machine learning workloads, balancing performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Translate evolving model requirements and workload characteristics into clear product requirements, making informed trade-offs across compute, memory, and system constraints.
• Drive execution across engineering, research, and software teams, aligning hardware capabilities with model and developer needs from concept through launch.

Principal Duties and 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 based on a thorough understanding of internal and external influences and assists in determining product development that advances the roadmap.

•    Drives product line launch strategies for new products and technologies through technical marketing opportunities such as conferences, congresses, and direct customer contact and ensures successful product launch.

•    Prepares and delivers highly complex and high-stakes technical presentations regarding product roadmaps that explain and demonstrate products to customers, and integrates customer feedback into project roadmaps.

•    Monitors the market to validate product roadmaps and translates these into changes and adjustments for the roadmap.

•    Oversees the development of multiple, complex products and ensures cross-functional communication of product development goals. Ensures products and roadmap are differentiated using input from customers, market, competitors, and technology advancements.

•    Reviews development and definition activities for multiple new and emerging technology product portfolios including determination of cost and impact, and continually reviews ROI of specific products.     

•    Drives the development of long-term innovation strategies for products and drives IP strategies while maintaining the best interest of customers and alignment to the product roadmap.

•    Communicates regularly with internal customers, third-party vendors, and senior management to establish needs and goals, and executes communication/change management plan for stakeholders, management, and executives.             

•    Oversees successful cross-functional collaboration by ensuring the completion of milestones by Engineering team and other internal partners (i.e., program management) ensuring the completed work aligns with roadmap for a product line(s).

•    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 product lines.     

Level of Responsibility:

•    Working independently with no supervision.

•    Making decisions that are significant in impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; 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. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

•    Some financial accountability (e.g., manages a small budget, has input into P&L).

•    Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that have substantial impact on the organization).

•    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.

•    Regularly determines what needs to be done and is involved with sharing innovative solutions to achieve broad policies and objectives.

•    Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data