
Program Manager, Staff
Role summary
Qualcomm is seeking a Staff Program Manager to join their Engineering Services Group in San Diego, CA. This role is responsible for establishing and driving project plans, roadmaps, and schedules for RF components and modem/chipset development. The Program Manager will ensure HW/SW integration, manage risks, and drive process improvements. Key responsibilities include cross-functional team leadership, managing RF program activities from transceiver to antenna, and aligning with commercial release schedules. The position requires strong communication, presentation, and leadership skills, with a focus on achieving business objectives through effective resource planning and risk mitigation. This is an office-based, full-time position.
## Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
## Job Area:
Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management
General Summary:
QCT Program Management is searching for a Program Manager to join their team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Establish clear and stable plans of record and roadmaps for development projects.
- Planning and alignment of all RF components from transceiver-to-antenna (including RFFE) across MDM/MSM chipsets.
- Drive and maintain schedules and plans for execution of development plans of record for a fast paced innovative environment.
- Drive feature requests spanning RF, modem, firmware, Modem systems, test mobiles and various other teams.
- Responsibility to ensure that all the RF products come together from a HW/SW perspective and align with MDM/MSM commercial release schedules.
- Owner of all RF program management activities for a given transceiver system including. planning, tracking, execution, database updates and risk management.
- Responsible to work with key teams inside the RF organization (RFIC, RF Systems, RFHW, RFSW, RFTest) and put end-end plans for all HW/SW features.
- Manage modem, bring up and Systems performance optimizations activities.
- Multi-task with and understand, guide, and facilitate a variety of disciplines, such as ASIC hardware design, test, product support, marketing, finance, and other business functions.
- Demonstrate executive and customer level presentation skills with excellent written and verbal communications, interpersonal skills, and the ability to mentor, motivate, and lead project teams.
- Develop and maintain resource plans and identifies resource gaps and makes plans for mitigating them to achieve QCT division business objectives.
- Manage a modem releases/programs and brings consistency across portfolio.
- Manage risks, develops mitigation strategies and communicates impacts.
- Identify organizational and process weaknesses and develops and champions plans for improvements.
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, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5+ years of Program Management or related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Program Management or related work experience.
- Firmware development or Firmware Program management experience
- 1+ year of experience working in a large matrixed organization.
- 1+ year of experience with program management tools such as dashboards, Gantt charts, etc.
- 1+ year of working with operating budgets, resources, and/or project financials.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) / Project Management Institute (PMI) Certification.
- Demonstrated proficiency with project planning tools and current methodologies.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$171,200.00 - $256,800.00
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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