Product Manager, Staff/Director

Nuvia

Nuvia

Product
San Diego, CA, USA
USD 179,200-268,800 / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 2, 2025

Job Description

Job Posting Date

2025-07-01


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

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.

The responsibilities include:

  • 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.

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:

  • 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.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • 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 Developers.

  • 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.

  • Complete product development and definition activities for a new or highly complex, owned product, including determination of cost and impact, and interacts with sales team and ecosystem partners to generate forecasts.
    Hold 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 and/or partner.

  • 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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