Qualcomm

Strategy and Business Operations Lead (IT Enterprise Data and Analytics)

Qualcomm • $142K — $213K *
San Diego, CA 92154In-Person
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 8+ years of project/program management, business operations, or strategy experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 10+ years of equivalent experience without a degree.
  • Proven leadership in large-scale data and analytics transformation, specifically for AI readiness.
  • Hands-on fluency with AI tools and ability to adapt to evolving AI technologies.
  • Preferred Master's degree (MBA or relevant IT/business field).
  • Prior chief of staff or leadership support experience in strategy and operations.

Responsibilities

  • Drive IT leadership meeting cadence, ensuring effective agendas and follow-up on outcomes.
  • Shape and operationalize strategy with the leadership team, focusing on goal setting and progress tracking.
  • Lead and complete high-priority, cross-functional strategic initiatives from start to finish.
  • Enhance the IT organization’s AI capabilities through change management and training programs.
  • Manage resource planning and portfolio management across organizational initiatives securely.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive benefits package designed to support work-life balance.
  • Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunities for annual RSU grants.
Full Job Description
General Summary:

Serves as a strategy and operations leader and chief of staff to the VP of IT and the IT leadership team, driving the strategic agenda, operating cadence, and execution of high-priority initiatives across the organization. Acts as a trusted extension of the leader-translating strategy into actionable plans, orchestrating the leadership operating rhythm, and ensuring alignment, accountability, and follow-through across teams. Brings structure to ambiguous, cross-functional problems; synthesizes data and insights into executive-ready recommendations; and represents the leader's priorities in forums where direct presence isn't possible. Operates with a high degree of discretion, judgment, and confidentiality.

This role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).

**This role is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.

Qualifications
  • 8+ years of project/program management, business operations, or strategy work experience with a Bachelor's degree.

OR
  • 10+ years of equivalent work experience without a Bachelor's degree.
  • Proven ability and experience leading large-scale data and analytics transformation and migration at scale (required), specifically geared toward AI readiness.
  • AI-enabled (required) - hands-on fluency with AI tools and a demonstrated ability to embrace, adopt, and continuously adapt to a rapidly evolving AI footprint.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's degree (MBA or IT/business-related field).
  • Prior experience in a chief of staff, strategy & operations, business operations, or PMO leadership role supporting senior executives.
  • Hands-on experience managing data and AI projects and leading data/AI-driven transformation initiatives at scale.
  • Knowledge of the semiconductor industry and enterprise IT functions.
  • Strong financial, planning, and data analysis skills; proficiency with executive communications and presentation development (PowerPoint, Excel, BI tools).
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills.


Principal Duties and Responsibilities

  • Drives the IT leadership operating cadence-staff meetings, leadership reviews, business reviews (MBR/QBR), offsites, and all-hands-including agendas, pre-reads, content, and follow-up on action items and decisions.
  • Partners with the VP and leadership team to shape and operationalize strategy, including annual and quarterly planning, goal/OKR setting, and tracking progress against objectives.
  • Leads and orchestrates high-priority, cross-functional strategic initiatives end to end-defining scope, milestones, owners, and success metrics, and driving them to completion.
  • Leads change management and enablement to evolve the leadership team and broader IT organization into an AI-first / AI-native team-driving adoption, capability-building, and new ways of working.
  • Leads change management, training, and enablement to drive adoption of new platforms and tools both internally across IT and with business partners-building capability and ensuring sustained usage and value realization.
  • Owns resource planning and portfolio management-balancing capacity, priorities, and investments across the organization's initiatives, and providing leadership with visibility into the full portfolio.
  • Supports leadership on the mobilization of data governance across the organization for trust, quality, and AI readiness.
  • Establishes AI-first processes and mechanisms for tracking execution and operations against strategy, giving leadership real-time visibility into progress, performance, and outcomes.
  • Synthesizes data, metrics, and qualitative inputs into clear, executive-ready briefings, recommendations, and decision support for the leader and leadership team.
  • Develops executive communications-leadership presentations, organizational updates, talking points, and messaging-on behalf of the VP and the IT organization.
  • Acts as a proxy and integrator across the leadership team, ensuring alignment, surfacing risks and dependencies early, and holding cross-functional owners accountable for commitments.
  • Manages the operational health of the organization-supporting budget and headcount planning, resource and vendor coordination, and tracking of key operating metrics.
  • Drives organizational and team health initiatives, including engagement, culture, talent, and recognition programs in partnership with HR and leadership.
  • Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across IT and business functions to enable collaboration and remove barriers to execution.
  • Proactively identifies gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities in how the leadership team operates, and implements processes and mechanisms to address them.
  • Operates at speed and continuously finds newer, smarter ways to drive speed and efficiency-challenging the status quo and accelerating how the organization plans, decides, and executes.
  • Handles sensitive and confidential information with sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism.


Level of Responsibility

  • Working independently with minimal supervision, exercising significant judgment in ambiguous situations.
  • Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions with significant impact on the leadership team's effectiveness, the organization's priorities, and the ability to meet objectives.
  • Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple audiences with differing knowledge levels; role requires strong negotiation, influence, and communication to senior leaders and large groups.
  • Having significant influence over how the leadership team operates and over key organizational decisions and priorities.
  • Using deductive and inductive problem solving across incomplete or conflicting information; advanced data analysis and synthesis skills are required.
  • Exercising creativity to design new processes and mechanisms without established objectives or known parameters.
  • Regularly participates in strategic planning affecting the broader organization.


Minimum Qualifications:
• 7+ years of Project Management-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
9+ years of Project Management-relevant work experience without a Bachelor's degree.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$142,400.00 - $213,600.00

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.

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

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Joining Qualcomm offers more than just a job opportunity; it's a gateway to a career infused with innovation, leadership, and growth. As a pivotal leader in the world of wireless technology, Qualcomm stands at the forefront of digital communication advancements. Our team of professionals is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible, making this an ideal time to become part of our global community.

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Learn more about Qualcomm
Size
45,000 employees
Market Cap
$122.5 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.7 billion
Founded
1985
5 Year Trend
+14.7%
Revenue
$26.6 billion
NASDAQ
QCOM
* Ladders Estimates

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