Director, Android Software Product Management

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.
• Applying deductive and inductive problem-solving techniques, advanced analysis, and interpretation of incomplete or conflicting information.
• Participating in strategic planning that influences the direction of Android software products, the Mobile BU software portfolio, and related business areas.
• Leading through influence across product management, engineering, architecture, business, and ecosystem organizations.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Defines and maintains the product vision, strategy, positioning, and roadmap for Android software products, platform capabilities, and related ecosystem experiences.
• Drives the Qualcomm Mobile BU software agenda across multiple technology areas by coordinating with technology product managers and engineering leads.
• Establishes cross-functional software priorities, aligns technology-area roadmaps and investment areas, identifies dependencies and execution risks, and ensures consistent strategic direction across the Mobile BU.
• Orchestrates collaboration among technology product managers, software engineering leaders, architecture teams, and business stakeholders to develop an integrated Mobile BU software strategy.
• Ensures that Android platform, system software, AI, graphics, multimedia, connectivity, security, developer experience, and other relevant technology plans support common product, platform, customer, and business objectives.
• Represents the consolidated Mobile BU software strategy in discussions with senior leadership, Google, OEMs, carriers, application developers, and other ecosystem partners.
• Conducts complex market, customer, competitive, and technology analyses to assess opportunities for Android software differentiation, adoption, and growth.
• Evaluates Android ecosystem requirements, AOSP developments, OEM priorities, developer needs, customer feedback, and industry trends to identify product opportunities.
• Creates business cases and investment proposals for new Android software products, platform capabilities, features, and services, including analysis of customer value, adoption, cost, schedule, risk, and expected business impact.
• Establishes product requirements, objectives, success criteria, and key performance indicators for assigned Android software products and cross-domain initiatives.
• Translates customer, partner, market, and Mobile BU needs into clear product requirements and prioritized engineering backlogs.
• Leads product definition activities for complex Android software products, including feature prioritization, user and developer experience objectives, technical feasibility, dependencies, release strategy, and lifecycle planning.
• Coordinates with technology product managers and engineering leads to reconcile competing priorities, resolve cross-domain tradeoffs, and establish integrated release plans.
• Identifies critical technology, platform, customer, and ecosystem dependencies that may affect product delivery, quality, adoption, or business objectives.
• Drives alignment on software architecture direction, platform integration points, product interfaces, and cross-technology requirements in partnership with engineering and architecture leadership.
• Guides product execution from concept through development, integration, validation, launch, maintenance, upgrades, and end-of-life.
• Establishes governance mechanisms, operating rhythms, and decision-making frameworks to track progress against the Mobile BU software agenda.
• Reviews execution status, risks, resource constraints, quality metrics, customer feedback, and market developments; recommends corrective actions and escalates issues when appropriate.
• Partners with engineering and program management leadership to improve execution predictability, product quality, release readiness, and customer satisfaction.
• Develops launch strategies, positioning, messaging, enablement materials, and customer communication plans for Android software products and platform capabilities.
• Supports customer and partner engagements by articulating product value, technical differentiation, roadmap direction, integration requirements, and expected business benefits.
• Builds trusted relationships with Google, OEMs, carriers, application developers, and other strategic ecosystem partners.
• Represents Qualcomm in industry forums, customer briefings, technical discussions, and executive engagements related to Android software and mobile platform strategy.
• Monitors competitive offerings and emerging technologies to identify threats, opportunities, and areas for product differentiation.
• Defines and tracks adoption, performance, quality, customer satisfaction, and business metrics to assess product success.
• Develops recommendations for product investments, prioritization, roadmap changes, and resource allocation based on data-driven analysis.
• Mentors and provides strategic guidance to product managers and cross-functional teams.
• Promotes consistent product management practices, requirements quality, roadmap discipline, and cross-functional accountability across the Mobile BU software organization.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities a