Staff Product Manager - Smartphones and AI

Overview

Staff Product Manager within the Handset Business Unit, working at the intersection of AI, software, silicon, and consumer experiences to turn customer product ideas into smartphone and personal AI experiences.

What you'll do

• Serve as the primary product management interface for assigned customers, developing a deep understanding of their product vision, architecture, requirements, and roadmap.
• Translate customer insights into product priorities and drive alignment across Qualcomm product, engineering, customer engineering, technical account management, and sales teams.
• Serve as the primary product management interface for the Handset Business Unit's software strategy with assigned customers, connecting customer needs with Qualcomm's software, AI, hardware, and technology roadmaps.
• Own integrated hardware and software roadmap communication and coordinate across technology product owners to deliver a coherent end-to-end strategy.
• Develop a system-level understanding of smartphone and personal-device architectures across AI, camera, voice, audio, modem, graphics, software, and related technologies.
• Connect technology capabilities, dependencies, and trade-offs to the overall device architecture and consumer experience.
• Develop expertise in emerging consumer AI experiences and a strong point of view on what constitutes a compelling product experience.
• Translate customer, consumer, market, and technology insights into product, portfolio, and roadmap recommendations.
• Maintain a strong understanding of developments across AI/ML, software, infrastructure, and related ecosystem technologies.
• Evaluate internal and external capabilities against product requirements and contribute to build, partner, or buy decisions.
• Communicate integrated product roadmaps and deliver strategic and technical presentations to customers, partners, internal stakeholders, and senior executives.
• Translate customer and market feedback into recommendations and drive cross-functional alignment on product priorities, dependencies, and decisions.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years of work experience: Master's degree = one year; Doctorate = two years.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of Product Management or related technical work experience.
• Advanced degree (MS or MBA) in a technical or business discipline.
• Experience with smartphones, mobile platforms, consumer devices, AI products, semiconductors, or complex hardware/software systems.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML, on-device agentic systems, multimedia, and associated software technologies.
• Experience translating customer or consumer needs into product strategy and technology roadmaps.
• Broad technical fluency across hardware and software, with the ability to reason about end-to-end product experiences.
• Experience evaluating internal and external technology capabilities as part of product or platform decisions.
• Strong product judgment and intuition for compelling consumer experiences.
• High agency, with demonstrated ability to create structure from ambiguity and proactively drive solutions.
• Strong customer leadership, influence, negotiation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to spend significant time working directly with customers.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Highly customer-facing role.