Senior Director

Qualcomm is looking for an experienced and hands-on Product Manager in the Cloud Business Unit to help strategize and drive next generation Server SoCs and Platforms roadmap. In this customer-focused role, you will be working with the world’s leading Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), drawing insights and requirements from a deep understanding of the cloud hardware infrastructure landscape in these customer’s datacenters, and driving the Cloud server, rack, systems and platforms definitions and roadmap targeting general-purpose and AI workloads.

In addition, such candidate is expected to prioritize use cases while working closely with customers, engineering, sales, and business development

teams.

Furthermore, such candidate will also function as a central resource with design, process, manufacturing, quality, test, marketing, and sales as the product(s) and/or product line(s) move through their lifecycle.

Lastly, such candidate will formulate and execute long-term roadmaps for cost/profit control and promote the use of new technologies and industry-leading trends.

The position requires strong expertise in business and systems analysis, strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to collaborate and influence key stakeholders within Product Management team and across various functional teams.

Principal Requirements and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for definition and execution of strategic planning of Server SoC roadmap, including server platforms and racks

• Take end-to-end ownership of the product and be a tireless voice for of the customer, while ensuring business goals are met

• Drive adoption of Cloud server platforms with customers: evangelize existing and future solutions across internal and external customers

• Drive and product-manage the customer engagement activities. coordinating with internal stakeholders such as program management, software development, performance benchmarking, and applications engineering

• Align with Qualcomm cross-functional teams (Business Unit, Sales, Engineering) on CSP and OEM/ODM requirements, with emphasis on driving enablement/communications, support, and address and balance prioritization of the requirements through formal MRD/PRD process

• Responsible for partnering with and managing key OEM and ODM customer engagements, from product concept through qualification and post-launch, to deliver the servers, racks and platforms, to CSP customers

• Drive executive decision making for new investments in cloud data center solutions, including competitive analysis, program goals and business requirements, architectural concepts, risk management strategies, financial analysis, schedule and hardware strategy

• Work closely with datacenter business teams to drive adoption across the portfolio

• Build strong relationships with the program management and engineering counterparts on the customer side

Preferred Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in the Cloud and Datacenter industry, with experience at CSP, OEM, ODM, or technology provider level

• Solid understanding of CSP, OEM and ODM customer product life cycle

• Significant experience in a customer-facing role and experience with CSPs or enterprise datacenter customers is a plus.

• In-depth knowledge of server workloads and ISV ecosystem

• In-depth knowledge of cloud and datacenter hardware requirements and design

• Excellent written, oral communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills

• Ability to multi-task and handle multiple simultaneous projects

• Highly results driven

• Experience in writing business plans and commercial justifications

• MBA

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 analysis and interpretation skills are required.

• Develops, redesigns organizational strategies and provides overall direction for various functional areas and/or entire organization. Has influence over the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.