Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary

Qualcomm is seeking a product manager to manage AI hardware technology, encompassing DSP, NPU and new memory architecture. This position is part of the team which drives Qualcomm’s Technology roadmaps.

The successful candidate will be able to build strong relationships with the AI HW & engineering teams, scope out product and roadmap requirements based on real world use cases, align DSP, NPU and memory architecture definitions with various internal business units/product teams, and advocate Qualcomm’s DSP, NPU and AI technology with customers & media.

Desired Skills

• Strong background in processor architecture/microarchitecture, including in-depth knowledge of DSP, NPUs, TPUs architecture; competitive landscape & industry trends across different verticals; HW requirements to support emerging AI/GenAI workloads
• Strong background in memory architectures including HBM, PIM, WoW; associated tradeoffs – performance, implementation at IP and system level implications
• Experience with SoC definition/execution
• Impact of architecture on debug/toolchain/software platform needs
• Familiarity with back-end implementation power, performance, and area tradeoffs
• Background in customer facing role
• Strong written and spoken communication skills with diverse audiences
• Ability to lead without direct authority across organization and industry
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• 3+ years of working in a large matrixed organization.
• 2+ years of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• 2+ years of negotiating 3rd party business agreements.
  
  
  

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.
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

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

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