Senior Program Manager – Multimedia Technologies

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management

General Summary:

The Multimedia Technologies Program Manager is responsible for end-to-end planning, execution governance, and delivery predictability of Multimedia technology programs across semiconductor platforms and XR product segments.

This role owns Plan of Record (POR) commitments by orchestrating cross-functional execution across multimedia software and hardware stacks, ensuring clear, decision-ready transparency to leadership. The role operates at the intersection of technology depth, execution rigor, and stakeholder leadership, enabling scalable delivery across multiple SoCs, customers, and market segments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Program & POR Ownership

• Own end-to-end Multimedia technology planning across lifecycle phases:
  Pre-silicon → Bring-up → SOD → Customer Ship

• Define, maintain, and drive Multimedia Plan of Record (POR) across system and product cycles.

• Ensure milestone ownership, traceability, and delivery accountability for features and deliverables.

• Drive alignment across multiple Multimedia programs, platforms, and releases.

2. Execution Governance

• Drive execution governance across Multimedia workstreams, including:

  • Feature request (FR) and scope alignment

  • Release readiness and closure reviews

  • Dependency and integration tracking

• Proactively identify execution risks, conflicts, and gaps, and drive mitigation to closure.

• Ensure delivery predictability across internal and customer-facing milestones.

3. Resource & Capacity Management

• Own resource planning and capacity visibility for Multimedia programs.

• Drive staffing plans, gap analysis, Level-of-Effort (LoE) estimates, and overage tracking.

• Enable program-level cost, capacity, and risk transparency for leadership decision-making.

• Partner with engineering and functional leaders to align resourcing with POR commitments.

4. Stakeholder & Leadership Management

• Act as the single point of coordination across:

  • Engineering teams (software, hardware, systems)

  • Product Management / Technical Product Managers

  • Business Unit & Target Program Managers

  • Executive leadership

• Provide clear dashboards, execution updates, and executive-level summaries.

• Present trade-offs, escalations, and recommendations with ownership and clarity.

5. Process, Metrics & Continuous Improvement

• Define, maintain, and continuously improve Multimedia program KPIs, dashboards, and execution metrics.

• Drive automation, reporting efficiency, and AI/tool adoption where applicable.

• Ensure adherence to internal development, release, and compliance processes.

• Foster consistent execution rigor across geographies, organizations, and partners.

Qualifications

Education

• Minimum: B.E. / B.Tech in Engineering
  (Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science, or related discipline)

Experience

• 12–15+ years of experience in the Hi‑Tech / Semiconductor / Platform Software industry

• Proven experience in Technology Program Management / Engineering Program Management

• Strong exposure to one or more of:

  • Multimedia systems (audio, video, display, vision, ISP, graphics)

  • Platform software in SoC-based environments

  • Cross-layer hardware/software integration

Skills & Attributes

• Strong execution rigor, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills

• Ability to operate at engineering depth and executive altitude

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

• Experience managing large, cross-geo, cross-discipline programs

• Comfortable driving ambiguity, scale, and complexity in fast-paced environments

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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