Staff Manager, Product Management — Customer Strategy & Solution, Data Center Custom Silicon
$205,000 - $307,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 31 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves shaping customer strategy and translating customer needs into solution requirements for custom silicon opportunities within Qualcomm's Data Center Business Unit, aligning them with Qualcomm platform capabilities.
What you'll do
- Define customer solution strategy for custom silicon platform engagements.
- Partner with customers, Sales, Business Development, Architecture, and Engineering teams to assess opportunity fit and support customer engagement strategy.
- Lead solution definition activities for requests for information, requests for quotation, statements of work, and product requirements documents.
- Translate customer priorities, market trends, and business objectives into product requirements, roadmap inputs, and commercial assumptions.
- Drive cross-functional alignment to resolve solution scope, customer priorities, feature trade-offs, and execution dependencies.
- Contribute customer strategy inputs to custom silicon platform, connectivity, chiplet, packaging, memory, compute, and technology roadmaps.
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.
Nice to have
- MBA or advanced technical degree.
- 8 years of semiconductor industry experience, including Product Management, Technical Product Management, Customer Solutions, Strategic Marketing, or Business Development roles.
- Experience working with hyperscale cloud providers, AI infrastructure companies, or strategic semiconductor customers.
- Demonstrated success contributing to custom silicon, infrastructure, networking, AI datacenter, or customer solution initiatives.
- Strong understanding of custom silicon development lifecycles, semiconductor business models, customer engagement models, and technology platform strategies.
- Experience supporting requests for information, requests for quotation, statements of work, product requirements documents, business proposals, and customer engagement plans.
- Knowledge of AI infrastructure and data center systems, including compute, connectivity, networking, memory technologies, chiplets, advanced packaging, and semiconductor manufacturing.
- Strong commercial, financial, and strategic planning skills, including business case development, pricing inputs, investment analysis, and revenue planning support.
Skills: product requirements, roadmap, customer strategy, custom silicon, data center
This role has been open 43 days — exactly the 43-day median for Product Management roles.
Product Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
38
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Median days open
43 d
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Median salary
$228k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (38 roles · 17 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 38 |
| Median days open | 43 d | 43 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $228k |
Skills observed across this category: product requirements, roadmap, customer strategy, custom silicon, data center
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 9 open roles · median 43 d
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 29 d
- GlobalFoundries · 4 open roles · median 30 d
- Intel Corporation · 2 open roles · median 36 d
- NVIDIA · 2 open roles · median 116 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 2 open roles · median 77 d
How we counted: 38 open Product Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.