General Summary:We are seeking a Director-level Product Manager to define, productize, and commercialize CPU platforms optimized for networking infrastructure and adjacent markets. This role owns end-to-end product leadership - from market definition and architecture framing through execution, customer adoption, and revenue impact.
- The position is responsible for shaping platform strategy and roadmap across multiple high-growth segments including SD-WAN appliances, network/security appliances, and emerging infrastructure compute use cases. The role operates with significant autonomy and executive visibility, acting as the single point of accountability for the product's technical direction, business case, and market success.
- This is a senior individual-contributor leadership role.
- Own product strategy and roadmap for networking-optimized CPU platforms, including performance tiers, SKU strategy, lifecycle planning, and multi-generation evolution.
- Define the "whole product"-silicon features, platform software expectations, security/boot, reference designs, ecosystem enablement, and customer-ready solutions.
- Serve as the executive "voice of the customer" across hyperscalers, OEMs, and network appliance vendors, translating system-level requirements into actionable product definitions.
- Drive architecture framing and trade-off decisions in partnership with silicon and platform architects-balancing PPA, cost, schedule, and differentiation.
- Own the business case: TAM/SAM framing, pricing strategy, revenue forecasts, margin targets, and long-term ROI narrative for executive reviews.
- Lead cross-functional execution across silicon design, platform software, validation, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and business development-without direct authority.
- Define and execute go-to-market strategy including positioning, launch readiness, customer sampling, design-in capture, and field enablement.
- Influence multi-year investment decisions and portfolio trade-offs, including reuse vs. derivative vs. new silicon strategies, in collaboration with executive leadership.
This is an office based position located in San Diego, CA and is expected to comply with the company's onsite work policy.
Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 8+ 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.
Preferred Qualifications:• 10+ years of Product Management or related work experience
.• 3+ 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.
Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $198,200.00 - $297,400.00
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.
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