Staff Product Manager - Smartphones and AI

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

Help shape the next generation of AI-powered mobile experiences.

Qualcomm is seeking a Staff Product Manager within the Handset Business Unit to work at the intersection of AI, software, silicon, and consumer experiences. You will partner closely with customers to turn ambitious product ideas into compelling smartphone and personal AI experiences.

This is a highly customer-facing role for a product leader with strong product intuition, AI fluency, and technical depth. You will connect customer and consumer needs with Qualcomm’s hardware, software, and AI roadmaps, bring together teams across technology domains, and help shape the future of mobile computing.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Customer Product Leadership

• Serve as the primary product management interface for assigned customers, developing a deep understanding of their product vision, architecture, requirements, and roadmap.
• Translate customer insights into product priorities and drive alignment across Qualcomm product, engineering, customer engineering, technical account management, and sales teams.

Integrated Hardware and Software Strategy

• Serve as the primary product management interface for the Handset Business Unit’s software strategy with assigned customers, connecting customer needs with Qualcomm’s software, AI, hardware, and technology roadmaps.
• Own integrated hardware and software roadmap communication and coordinate across technology product owners to deliver a coherent end-to-end strategy.

System-Level Product Management

• Develop a system-level understanding of smartphone and personal-device architectures across AI, camera, voice, audio, modem, graphics, software, and related technologies.
• Connect technology capabilities, dependencies, and trade-offs to the overall device architecture and consumer experience.

AI and Product Strategy

• Develop expertise in emerging consumer AI experiences and a strong point of view on what constitutes a compelling product experience.
• Translate customer, consumer, market, and technology insights into product, portfolio, and roadmap recommendations.

Technology Ecosystem

• Maintain a strong understanding of developments across AI/ML, software, infrastructure, and related ecosystem technologies.
• Evaluate internal and external capabilities against product requirements and contribute to build, partner, or buy decisions.

Roadmap and Executive Communication

• Communicate integrated product roadmaps and deliver strategic and technical presentations to customers, partners, internal stakeholders, and senior executives.
• Translate customer and market feedback into recommendations and drive cross-functional alignment on product priorities, dependencies, and decisions.

Level of Responsibility

• Works independently with little supervision, making significant-impact decisions in complex environments.
• Leads complex cross-functional initiatives and manages priorities across short- and long-term horizons.
• Communicates complex technical and strategic information to audiences with differing levels of expertise.
• Applies advanced analytical judgment and problem solving when information is incomplete or conflicting.
• Uses strong negotiation and influence skills to align customers, product teams, technology leaders, and senior stakeholders.
• Exercises creativity and independent judgment to develop new approaches and solutions and influence key organizational decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years of work experience: Master’s degree = one year; Doctorate = two years.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of Product Management or related technical work experience.
• Advanced degree (MS or MBA) in a technical or business discipline preferred.
• Experience with smartphones, mobile platforms, consumer devices, AI products, semiconductors, or complex hardware/software systems.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML, on-device agentic systems, multimedia, and associated software technologies.
• Experience translating customer or consumer needs into product strategy and technology roadmaps.
• Broad technical fluency across hardware and software, with the ability to reason about end-to-end product experiences.
• Experience evaluating internal and external technology capabilities as part of product or platform decisions.
• Strong product judgment and intuition for compelling consumer experiences.
• High agency, with demonstrated ability to create structure from ambiguity and proactively drive solutions.
• Strong customer leadership, influence, negotiation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to spend significant time working directly with customers.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

*Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.

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