Product Manager, Staff (AI Ecosystem)

Overview

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

Qualcomm Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

Job Description

Directs a comprehensive product 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 product(s) and/or product line(s) move through their lifecycle. Formulates and executes long-term roadmaps for cost/profit control. Promotes use of new technologies and industry-leading trends. Directs those involved in the design, modification, and evaluation of all phases of a specific product or group of products. Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle including modifications, upgrades, and maintenance of the product or product line.

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 SW 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. Required Competencies

• Strong understanding on the challenges and best practices of deploying AI/ML systems at scale

• Deep knowledge of neural network algorithms, trends in ML space and challenges associated with deployment.

• Experience training and/or deploying deep learning applications.

• Background with CUDA or Open VINO or Core/Create ML would be a strong value add

• Experience in Mobile or Auto or Cloud compute AI design would be a strong plus

• Execution oriented and track record of driving on time deliverables to customers with aggressive schedules.

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Passion to evangelize disruptive new technologies.

Required Competencies

• Strong understanding on the challenges and best practices of deploying AI/ML systems at scale

• Strong understanding of AI inference frameworks (TF, TF-Lite etc), AI processing offload to accelerators & associated tradeoffs

• Understanding of Computer/AI hardware architecture – CPU, GPU, Neural Accelerators

• Deep knowledge of neural network algorithms, trends in ML space and challenges associated with deployment.

• Experience training and/or deploying deep learning applications.

• Background with CUDA or Open VINO or Core/Create ML would be a strong value add

• Experience in Mobile or Auto or Cloud compute AI design would be a strong plus

• Execution oriented and track record of driving on time deliverables to customers with aggressive schedules.

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Passion to evangelize disruptive new technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 5+ years Product Management or related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years Product Management or 10+ years’ work experience in SW development.

• Strong background in bringing SW products and solutions to market.

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