Director, Android Software Product Management
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Diego, California, United States of America
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Mobile
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field.
- Extensive experience in software product management, platform strategy, product planning, or a related technical discipline.
- Significant experience with Android, AOSP, mobile software platforms, system software, or related ecosystem technologies.
- Demonstrated experience defining and executing complex software products and technology roadmaps.
- Experience coordinating across multiple technology domains, product management teams, and engineering organizations.
- Strong understanding of mobile platform architecture, Android ecosystem requirements, software development lifecycle, and customer integration considerations.
- Experience working with Google, OEMs, carriers, developers, or other technology ecosystem partners.
- Demonstrated ability to translate customer and market needs into product strategy, requirements, and execution priorities.
- Strong analytical, strategic planning, problem-solving, negotiation, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to influence decisions and drive results across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
- Experience balancing technical feasibility, customer value, business priorities, schedule, quality, and risk.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field.
- Experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, Mobile BU technologies, or semiconductor-enabled software ecosystems.
- Experience across multiple mobile technology areas, such as AI, graphics, multimedia, connectivity, security, power, performance, or developer platforms.
- Experience with Android framework, system services, HALs, AOSP integration, Google requirements, or OEM software customization.
- Experience developing multi-year platform strategies and executive-level product presentations.
- Experience managing complex partner relationships and leading strategic ecosystem engagements.
- Demonstrated success launching differentiated mobile software products or platform capabilities.
- Experience operating in a highly matrixed global organization.
- • 15+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
- • 4+ years of working in a large matrixed organization.
- • 2+ years of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
- • 2+ years of negotiating 3rd party business agreements.
- Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- • Reviews identified gaps in market based on complex analyses of overall ecosystem demands and makes portfolio decisions on how these gaps impact product roadmaps.
- • Validates business cases based on a thorough understanding of internal and external influences and assists in determining product development that advances the roadmap.
Full description
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Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management
General Summary:General Summary
Leads product strategy, definition, execution, and lifecycle management for Android software products, platform capabilities, and experiences from concept through end of life. This role drives the Qualcomm Mobile Business Unit software agenda across multiple technology areas by coordinating closely with technology product managers, software engineering leads, architecture teams, and business stakeholders.
The Director establishes an integrated software strategy that aligns Android platform capabilities, system software, AI, graphics, multimedia, connectivity, security, developer experiences, and other technology domains with Mobile BU business objectives and customer requirements. The role translates market, customer, partner, and technology needs into cohesive product roadmaps, investment priorities, platform requirements, and execution plans.
Serves as the central product resource across software engineering, architecture, user experience, quality, testing, marketing, sales, business development, customer engineering, and ecosystem partners. Works closely with Google, OEMs, carriers, application developers, chipset partners, and internal Qualcomm organizations to define product goals, prioritize requirements, manage dependencies, and drive successful execution.
Provides product leadership throughout the lifecycle, including product definition, development, integration, launch, maintenance, upgrades, and end-of-life planning. Represents the consolidated Qualcomm Mobile BU software strategy to senior leadership and external stakeholders, ensuring that technology-area plans support a consistent, differentiated, and customer-focused Android software portfolio.
The responsibilities of this role include:
- Working independently with broad direction and significant latitude in determining objectives and approaches.
- Making decisions with substantial impact on product strategy, software roadmaps, customer relationships, and business outcomes.
- Driving alignment across multiple technology areas and organizations that may not have direct reporting relationships.
- Communicating complex technical and business information to executives, engineering teams, customers, partners, and other stakeholders with varying levels of technical expertise.
- Influencing key organizational decisions through product expertise, data-driven analysis, negotiation, and executive communication.
- Solving ambiguous, highly complex problems that require the integration of technical, market, customer, and business considerations.
- Exercising creativity and strategic judgment to define new products, processes, platforms, and software experiences.