Senior Product Manager RISC-V

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

Product Manager specializing in RISC-V ISA and CPU core to lead the definition, development, and go-to-market strategy of our next-generation processors targeting applications across Qualcomm’s product portfolio.. This role requires a rare blend of technical depth, long term thinking, and relationship building to drive a differentiated RISC-V roadmap and turn emerging opportunities into scalable products.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute to product lifecycle for RISC-V CPUs from concept through execution: market analysis, product definition, roadmap planning, and lifecycle management.

• Develop deep customer and ecosystem insights to inform architecture tradeoffs and performance targets.

• Translate complex system requirements into clear, prioritized product requirements (PRDs) in close collaboration with architecture and engineering.

• Lead competitive analysis across RISC-V, ARM, and x86—identify gaps, opportunities, and long-term positioning strategies.

• Partner with business development, marketing, and ecosystem teams to build strong alliances with tool vendors, firmware, OS communities, and hyperscalers.

• Represent the RISC-V CPU roadmap to senior leadership and customers—make the business case, explain the technical story, and drive alignment.

• Track evolving standards, security, and compliance needs across target segments and regions.

Level of Responsibility:

• Working independently with little supervision.

• Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group 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.

• Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).

• Completing tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.

• Exercising substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.

• Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.

• Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Product Management or related work experience.

• 2+ years of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

• 2+ years of negotiating 3rd party business agreements.

• 2+ years of working in a large matrixed organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
• 4+ years of Product Management or related work experience.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :

$162,400.00 - $243,600.00

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