Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

In this role, you will regularly interface with Product Managers, Business Operations, Finance, and Procurement teams, organize recurring meetings such as Bi-weekly PC Market Updates, Operations Sync, and Monthly Sync on Compute Growth Funds & Opex Tracking and act as a key liaison for strategic initiatives, including roadmap alignment and market intelligence coordination

You direct a comprehensive product strategy from conception and definition through end of life. You serve as a central resource across design, process, manufacturing, quality, test, marketing, and distribution as the product or product line moves through its lifecycle. You formulate and execute long-term roadmaps to manage cost and maximize profit. You promote the use of new technologies and industry-leading trends. You lead those involved in the design, modification, and evaluation of all phases of a specific product or group of products. Your involvement spans all stages of the product’s lifecycle, including modifications, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance.

Key Duties

Operations Program Manager – Forecasting, Lifecycle Planning & Growth Fund Management

We are seeking a highly analytical and collaborative Operations Program Manager to drive strategic planning and execution across forecasting, product lifecycle management, and growth fund oversight.

Forecasting & Build Plan Enablement

This role leads the quarterly submission of SKU-level forecasts across a two-year horizon, forming the foundation of our build plans. Forecasts are deeply granular and incorporate diverse inputs—sales judgment, market intelligence, business unit aspirations, and anecdotal field feedback. Precision and cross-functional collaboration are essential, as the forecast directly informs wafer starts, build plans, and risk assessments for blind starts 

Product Lifecycle & NPI Planning

You will conduct monthly assessments of product lifecycle changes and lead times to monitor PRD status shifts. Quarterly reserve evaluations for PC, Tablet, and HHG products are also part of the scope. The role partners closely with Product Managers to support NPI planning, including sample allocation and customer readiness. You’ll also collaborate with Business Operations and PdMs to align on wafer starts, build plans, and risk mitigation strategies for new product launches 

Growth Fund Management

This role oversees the compute growth fund, managing a complex portfolio of funding requests. Responsibilities include rolling up requests across teams, maintaining detailed documentation, and facilitating quarterly reviews with senior leadership. You’ll track budget utilization, assess impact, and ensure alignment with strategic priorities

Impact:

This role promotes the use of new technologies and industry-leading trends, formulates and executes long-term roadmaps for cost/profit control, and directs design, modification, and evaluation efforts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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.

Level of Responsibility:  
•    Working independently with little supervision.
•    Making decisions that are significant in impact; 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. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
•    Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
•    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.
•    Exercising exceptional creativity to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/processes without established objectives or known parameters.
•    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. 
•    Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:  
•    Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility).

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$179,200.00 - $268,800.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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