Sr. Director of Product Management for Gaming Technologies & Development

Company: Qualcomm
Location: San Diego
Posted on: March 14, 2025

Job Description:

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area:Operations Group, Operations Group > Product ManagementGeneral Summary:Qualcomm's Gaming Technologies Team and Snapdragon Studios are seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the development of our next-generation gaming technologies, enhancing the best-in-class gaming experiences on the Snapdragon platform.In this role, you will:

• Direct a comprehensive next generation gaming technologies product development from conception and definition through end-of-life. Engage in all stages of a product's lifecycle, including modifications, upgrades, and maintenance.
• Serve as a central advanced gaming product lead resource, coordinating with design, process, development, quality, test, marketing, and distribution teams as the product(s) and/or product line(s) progress through their lifecycle.
• Formulate and execute long-term gaming technology roadmaps for operational expenditure control related to new gaming experiences.
• Promote the adoption of new gaming technologies and industry-leading trends.
• Oversee the design, modification, and evaluation of all phases of specific new gaming products or product groups including Game AI and generative AI.At the heart of Snapdragon Studios, we are passionate about next generation gaming technologies and delivering exceptional gaming experiences. Our highly creative teams, composed of veteran game developers, artists, game engine experts, and graphics enthusiasts, work on the latest GPU and gaming hardware innovations across Mobile, PC, Auto, and XR.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:
    • 10+ years of Technical Product Management or Development or related work experience in Game Industry.
    • Deep knowledge of the Gaming Industry, Gaming ecosystem for mobile and PC.
    • Deep knowledge of latest Gaming trends and Gaming Technologies.
    • Deep knowledge of Game Engine development & roadmaps.
    • Knowledge of GPU and graphics technologies.
    • 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, contracts, SOWs.Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
      • Conducts gaming market analysis to identify gaps and make portfolio decisions impacting gaming technologies product roadmaps.
      • Validates advanced gaming business cases, aligning them with organizational strategy and contributing to the gaming technologies product roadmap.
      • Develops and executes product portfolio launch strategies for gaming technologies, identifying technical marketing opportunities and ensuring successful product launches.
      • Prepares and delivers technical presentations on gaming technologies product roadmaps and proposals, integrating customer feedback.
      • Leads the creation of differentiated gaming technologies product roadmaps, facilitating cross-functional decision-making and stakeholder buy-in.
      • Drives cross-functional discussions to develop new and innovative gaming technologies that meet consumer and customer needs.
      • Oversees the development of new gaming technologies product portfolios, assessing cost, impact, and ROI.
      • Establishes long-term innovation strategies, product roadmaps, and aligning with our core Tech IP strategies for gaming technologies, ensuring alignment with AAA game studio interests.
      • Manages communication plans with internal customers, vendors, and senior management to build relationships and achieve gaming technologies product goals.
      • Ensures cross-functional collaboration to meet customer expectations and align with gaming technologies product roadmaps.
      • Translates cross Business unit needs and organizational strategy into successful gaming technologies product portfolios, partnering with cross-functional leaders.
      • Communicates complex information about gaming technologies effectively, requiring strong negotiation and influence skills.
      • Ensures realistic budgets, schedules, and performance standards for gaming technologies, with significant influence over key organizational decisions.
      • Completes multi-step tasks related to gaming technologies, requiring various cognitive abilities for both technical and creative tasks to reach innovative solutions.
      • Addresses abstract problems in gaming technologies requiring complex analysis and directs the resolution of issues impacting multiple areas with gaming ecosystem teams.Level of Responsibility:
        • Working independently with no supervision.
        • Making decisions that are significant in impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.
        • Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
        • Responsible to ensure budgets, schedules, and performance standards for functional areas and organization are realistically set and attained. Erroneous decisions, failure to achieve objectives results in significant long-term impact on the company's overall success.
        • Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that have substantial impact on the organization).
        • Completing tasks that require multiple steps that can be performed in various orders; tasks require simultaneously executing multiple cognitive abilities and maintaining information in short- or long-term memory.
        • Regularly determines what needs to be done and is involved with sharing innovative solutions to achieve broad policies and objectives.
        • Working on abstract problems in variable situations that typically require complex analysis, interpretation, or evaluation of intangible factors. Directs the resolution of complex problems that have impact beyond own area. Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.
        • Develops, redesigns organizational strategies and provides overall direction for various functional areas and/or entire organization. Has influence over the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:$227,700.00 - $341,500.00The 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 .
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