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Senior Director, Product Management - Automotive Software

Qualcomm
Detroit, MI
Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary

The successful candidate will lead Qualcomm’s Automotive business unit software partnering, ecosystem management and software monetization activities – identifying new and also working with established SW partners who complement Qualcomm’s Automotive product offerings, as well as defining joint technical and commercial offerings for our customers.

Work With The Automotive SW Product Management And SW Engineering Teams On The Generation Of Software Roadmaps For Automotive BU Paying Consideration To

  • A portfolio which can be leveraged by OEMs, Tier1s and ISVs in the Automotive eco-system
  • Ability to work with eco-system partners to provide scalable software offering to customers
  • Flexibility within portfolio to respond to changing needs of nascent Infotainment, Digital Cockpit, ADAS, Safety, Automotive Security and Connected Car software requirements

Has comprehensive knowledge of the SW trends in the automotive industry including:

  • Changing value chain dynamics: OEMs, Tier 1 & Tier 2 supplier, HW and SW integrators etc
  • ECU consolidation and the movement from domain to the adoption of zonal and central compute E/E Architectures
  • SW architecture trends – pure embedded SW being complemented by HLOS richer applications frameworks for wider ecosystem developer adoption
  • Movement to Service Oriented Architecture, CI/CD and DevOps
  • Emerging Cloud-Edge Native Compute technologies

Additional Responsibilities

  • Collection and Prioritization of Product Requirements, Feature Requests and Software Products to ensure key customer milestones are met in an optimized and efficient manner.
  • Generation of the business case associated with any proposed software product
  • Cradle to grave ownership of software products: Working with automotive chipset product management, business development, eco-system management, engineering, program management, customer support and marketing teams to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of customer SW releases and Proof of Concept & Demo products for internal and external use.
  • Working with the Legal, Contracts, Engineering and business support teams to ensure that the necessary in-sourcing and out-bound licensing and SOW agreements and processes are in place to efficiently work with partners, customers and suppliers - including collection and generation of comprehensive documentation of 3rd Party, Proprietary and Open Source Intellectual Property.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 15+ years Product Management or related work experience.
  • 2+ years working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
  • 2+ years negotiating 3rd party business agreements.
  • 4+ years working in a large matrixed organization.
  • Ability to analyze and distill detailed data down to actionable product and business strategies
  • Strong communication skills (written/verbal/presentation)
  • Experience with embedded SW products including High-level and Real Time operating systems and frameworks on embedded devices including, but not limited to: Linux (AGL / Yocto), Linux (LXC), Docker, Kubernetes Container technologies, QNX RTOS, INTEGRITY RTOS, Android (including Android Auto Embedded), Hypervisor solutions to support combinations of the above virtualized OSes

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits

$205,000.00 - $307,400.00

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.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
Posted 2026-02-02

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