Product Manager​/Director

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Product Management

Working as part of Qualcomm IE-IoT Business Unit Product Management team to plan and define hardware platforms, evaluation kits, development kits, modules and reference designs to support the BU GTM plans across multiple segments.

• Defining requirements, managing reference design roadmap, and supporting platform development execution and ecosystem partner engagements.
• The candidate will drive a comprehensive hardware platform strategy from product conception and definition through end of life.
• Functions as a central resource with design, process, manufacturing, quality, test, marketing, and distribution as the platform(s) move through their life cycle. Formulates and executes long-term platform roadmaps for multiple segments. Promotes use of new technologies and industry‑leading trends.
• Directs and leads those involved in the design, modification, and evaluation of all phases of the platform.
• Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle including modifications, upgrades, and maintenance of the platform.

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

• 5-10 years of Product Management or related work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in hardware platform, development kits, modules, reference design and related ecosystem and development/management.
• 2+ years driving 3rd party business agreements and engagements.
• 2+ years’ experience in customer/ecosystem engagements, product planning and management in IoT.
• Experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• Experience working in a large matrixed organization.
• Experience with networking and connectivity chipsets and architectures.
• Experience with industrial IoT embedded systems and applications.
• Experience with IoT or mobile BSP and Apps software such as Android, Yocto, Debian, Ubuntu.
• Experience working with indirect and distribution channel partners.

• Successful candidate for this role will define, collect and manage product requirements, access business opportunities and help drive go‑to‑market plans and ecosystem partner engagements.
• Work with ecosystem partners to define and lead hardware platforms and reference design roadmap.
• Must have knowledge of current and evolving semiconductor technologies and their impact on chipset architecture. Will work closely with internal and external software, hardware engineering teams across global sites and time zones.
• Work with IP & domain leads and team to drive technology roadmap for industrial IoT requirements.
• Maintain our platform competitive positioning across tiers from features, power, performance, benchmarking, and cost, and use those to ensure that we continue to have the best‑in‑class overall IoT product roadmap.
• IoT System design and use case analysis to evaluate architectural changes to existing and new platforms.
• Working with ecosystem partners and internal engineering teams to support customer RFI, RFQs, system level use case modelling and analysis.
• Develop risk management strategies, and plans, and monitor key performance indicators.
• Identifies gaps in market based on complex analyses of market, customer, technology, and other ecosystem demands and provide this information to guide design conversations and engagements with ecosystem partners and developer communities.
• Lead team collaboration in the creation of business cases and validates cases for development of a new, complex platforms to ensure they are appropriate given business direction and ask 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 partner and developer contact.
  Prepare and deliver highly complex technical presentations regarding product and platform roadmap that explains and demonstrates products managed for ecosystem partners and…