Staff Manager, Program Management (Automotive Software)

Overview

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management

Job 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.

GENERAL SUMMARY

Automotive SW PM position to develop, define, and to execute plans of record, that includes: schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables, and risks. Monitors and drives the program from inception through commercialization by tracking to key milestones, managing dependencies and deliverables, interfacing and coordinating with cross functional teams as well as 3rd party suppliers for development, Integration and test. Represents the program and drives alignment across stakeholders and establish and exercise escalation path when necessary. Understanding of Automotive SW product cycle and key SW OS technology are a key plus when engaging in strategic planning and solving issues that require reconciling multiple approaches with different parties.The responsibilities of this role include: • 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. • Work on driving pre-silicon activities for new SoC development, working with stakeholders across organization for strategy and activities involving design reviews and detailed work breakdown structure to put together a execution plan.• 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).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.

Physical Requirements

• Frequently transports between offices, buildings, and campuses up to ½ mile.

• Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 5 lbs.

• Performs required tasks at various heights (e.g., standing or sitting).

• Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.

• Continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors – Computer Science, Bachelors – Engineering

Work Experiences:

5+ years Program Management or related work experience., 5+ years working with operating budgets, resources, and/or project financials.

Certifications:

Skills:

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

Masters – Computer Science, Masters – Engineering

Work Experiences:

3+ years experience working in a large matrixed organization. ,5+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above). ,2+ years experience with program management tools such as dashboards, Gantt charts, etc. ,10+ years Program Management experience or related work experience.

Certifications:

Project Management Professional (PMP) – Project Management Institute (PMI)

Skills:

Agile Scrum Project Management, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Prepare Budgets, Prepare Presentations

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