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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Vice President Software Product Management - Mobile Handset, Product Management

Technical Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • At least 15 years of Software Product Management or related technical work experience.
  • At least 6 years of leadership experience.
  • At least 4 years working in a large matrixed organization.
  • At least 2 years working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
  • At least 2 years negotiating third-party business agreements.
  • Deep software domain credibility spanning system software, platforms, and developer enablement sufficient to earn trust with senior architects and engineering leaders.
  • Strong understanding of mobile computing systems, including how CPU, GPU, and NPU capabilities combine in real-world software solutions.
  • Fluency in modern AI systems and platforms, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and related toolchains, with the ability to translate AI trends into platform strategy.
  • Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-stakeholder software initiatives with enterprise-level impact.
  • Business acumen, including comfort engaging on financial, legal, and ecosystem considerations.
  • Ability to operate and collaborate across disciplines in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  • Deep understanding of key macro trends in the industry.

Responsibilities

  • Define and manage handset software requirements for original equipment manufacturers, including Samsung, Oppo, and Xiaomi.
  • Manage software baselining across chipsets and stock-keeping units.
  • Develop kernel strategy, verification, and quality of release.
  • Execute Qualcomm software delivery at massive scale.
  • Extend the handset platform with richer capabilities and ecosystem partners, and bring external technologies into the Qualcomm platform.
  • Drive platform extensibility across the broader ecosystem.
  • Define long-term software direction, including security, agentic AI, and new paradigms.
  • Evaluate build, buy, and acquisition decisions and shape the roadmap for next-generation mobile software solutions.
  • Set and lead software strategy for Mobile Handsets, establishing how AI and software drive competitive advantage.
  • Embed software strategy in business decision-making, applying working knowledge of financial implications, legal considerations, and go-to-market tradeoffs.
  • Work closely with internal executives and key stakeholders to gain support for and execute long-term plans.
  • Establish key business and technical goals for the group.
  • Identify and work closely with top customers and their executives to establish Qualcomm as an innovative industry leader.
  • Lead and influence the development of scalable software architectures.
  • Provide cross-functional leadership and influence across product management, engineering, and business unit teams, building consensus in a highly matrixed organization.
  • Ensure execution plans advance strategic priorities and company goals, and guide complex, strategic decisions with global reach or significant business or financial impact while adhering to company standards of ethical behavior.
  • Provide leadership across organizations by creating organization-development strategies, developing a talent pipeline and workforce, driving talent development, setting department expectations, and fostering coaching and mentoring relationships and a culture of inclusion and learning.
  • Motivate peers, senior leaders, and employees to align individual, team, department, and organization development with company vision and goals.
  • Inspire stakeholders and the company through a visionary approach that shapes the organization by introducing and enabling breakthrough ideas, products, and processes.
  • Create business opportunities by challenging the organization to push boundaries, taking appropriate risks, anticipating future needs, and transforming the product category.
  • Translate strategic vision into clear, impactful messages that connect efforts to broader company vision and goals, and champion proactive, open, respectful, and inclusive communication.

Desired Qualifications

  • At least 20 years of related professional experience in technology and software product management.
  • At least 10 years of leadership experience.
  • A master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related technical field of study.
  • Willingness to travel internationally as needed.
  • Mandarin fluency.

About the Company

Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Diego, CA
Founded
1985

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