Job Description
You Will Report Directly To The Senior Director Of Product Management Who Leads The Wearables Business, And Work Closely With The Following
- Marketing, product management teams and senior leadership across Qualcomm
- Sales and regional marketing to cultivate pipeline and win designs
- Engineering and customer engineering and support teams to take designs through the design-in and launch phases
- Marketing to launch and ramp products
- Finance to manage the business from a P&L perspective, operation
- Supply chain to manage operation and demand
You will drive all aspects of the Wearables business; in particular:
- Acting as a business lead for the segment, working with our sales team to win new business and ensure each account continues to deliver revenue and margin growth for Qualcomm
- Managing the strategic relationship with Google for developing the overall business partnership, driving the roadmap and priority alignment, new business initiatives and the ecosystem growth
- Responsible for cultivating new segments (AOSP, WearOS, RTOS) and growth strategy
- Managing the business unit operations, measuring and analyzing revenue stream and design pipeline to optimize revenue strategy
- Monitoring performance of the business with tracking revenue and take corrective measures when necessary, and prepare detailed updates for leadership review and forecasts alignment
- Analyzing markets, key accounts and competitors trends and status and provide meaningful insights and proper recommendations to product and leadership
- Driving and expanding the Wearables Ecosystem Accelerator Program, which provides support for ISV and IHV, ODM, SI integrating their IP with our products to provide a richer and complete E2E offering
- Collaborating with product management to put a competitive and compelling roadmap is in place
- Cultivating customer relationships, understanding of their business and requirements
- Pulling together customer collateral based on inputs from the broader teams
- Working with the product lead to ensure the Business has a clear marketing strategy that:
- Provides a credible route to revenue and margin growth
- Is backed by clear financial modelling and business case
- Is supported by the product roadmap
- Fits with the wider strategic plan for VMSS and Qualcomm overall.
Skills And Experience We Would Love To See
- A proven track record of driving a marketing team to deliver sustained revenue and margin growth
- Proven ability to develop business with large multinationals (e.g. Samsung)
- A proven track record of developing, growing and supporting ecosystems
- Experience working within large matrixed organizations being comfortable achieving results via influence rather than direct line control
- Passionate about wearables, gadgets, smart speakers, smart assistants…
- Able to balance product, technology, and business aspects of leading a segment
- Able to balance strategic and tactical aspects of the job
- Understands critical aspects of the role – Android, Linux, Audio, modem, business models, wearables,…
- Highly collaborative, works well with the team
Qualification
Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of Product Marketing, Marketing, Business, Engineering, Communications, or related work experience.