Strategy and Business Operations Lead (IT Enterprise Data and Analytics)
Qualcomm· enterprise· Semiconductors· Sep 17, 2026 · 1mo ago
San Diego, California, United States of America
In office
Full-time
Lead
$147K–$207K est.
8+ years exp
Job description
Company:
Qualcomm Incorporated
Job Area:
Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Project Management
General Summary:
Serves as a strategy and operations leader and chief of staff to the VP of IT and the IT leadership team, driving the strategic agenda, operating cadence, and execution of high-priority initiatives across the organization. Acts as a trusted extension of the leader—translating strategy into actionable plans, orchestrating the leadership operating rhythm, and ensuring alignment, accountability, and follow-through across teams. Brings structure to ambiguous, cross-functional problems; synthesizes data and insights into executive-ready recommendations; and represents the leader's priorities in forums where direct presence isn't possible. Operates with a high degree of discretion, judgment, and confidentiality.
This role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).
**This role is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
Qualifications
• 8+ years of project/program management, business operations, or strategy work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
• 10+ years of equivalent work experience without a Bachelor's degree.
• Proven ability and experience leading large-scale data and analytics transformation and migration at scale (required), specifically geared toward AI readiness.
• AI-enabled (required) — hands-on fluency with AI tools and a demonstrated ability to embrace, adopt, and continuously adapt to a rapidly evolving AI footprint.
Preferred Qualifications
• Master's degree (MBA or IT/business-related field).
• Prior experience in a chief of staff, strategy & operations, business operations, or PMO leadership role supporting senior executives.
• Hands-on experience managing data and AI projects and leading data/AI-driven transformation initiatives at scale.
• Knowledge of the semiconductor industry and enterprise IT functions.
• Strong financial, planning, and data analysis skills; proficiency with executive communications and presentation development (PowerPoint, Excel, BI tools).
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
• Drives the IT leadership operating cadence—staff meetings, leadership reviews, business reviews (MBR/QBR), offsites, and all-hands—including agendas, pre-reads, content, and follow-up on action items and decisions.
• Partners with the VP and leadership team to shape and operationalize strategy, including annual and quarterly planning, goal/OKR setting, and tracking progress against objectives.
• Leads and orchestrates high-priority, cross-functional strategic initiatives end to end—defining scope, milestones, owners, and success metrics, and driving them to completion.
• Leads change management and enablement to evolve the leadership team and broader IT organization into an AI-first / AI-native team—driving adoption, capability-building, and new ways of working.
• Leads change management, training, and enablement to drive adoption of new platforms and tools both internally across IT and with business partners—building capability and ensuring sustained usage and value realization.
• Owns resource planning and portfolio management—balancing capacity, priorities, and investments across the organization's initiatives, and providing leadership with visibility into the full portfolio.
• Supports leadership on the mobilization of data governance across the organization for trust, quality, and AI readiness.
• Establishes AI-first processes and mechanisms for tracking execution and operations against strategy, giving leadership real-time visibility into progress, performance, and outcomes.
• Synthesizes data, metrics, and qualitative inputs into clear, executive-ready briefings, recommendations, and decision support for the leader and leadership team.
• Develops executive communications—leadership presentations, organizational updates, talking points, and messaging—on behalf of the VP and the IT organization.
• Acts as a proxy and integrator across the leadership team, ensuring alignment, surfacing risks and dependencies early, and holding cross-functional owners accountable for commitments.
• Manages the operational health of the organization—supporting budget and headcount planning, resource and vendor coordination, and tracking of key operating metrics.
• Drives organizational and team health initiatives, including engagement, culture, talent, and recognition programs in partnership with HR and leadership.
• Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across IT and business functions to enable collaboration and remove barriers to execution.
• Proactively identifies gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities in how the leadership team operates, and implements processes and mechanisms to address them.
• Operates at speed and continuously finds newer, smarter ways to drive speed and efficiency—challenging the status quo and accelerating how the organization plans, decides, and executes.
• Handles sensitive and confidential information with sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism.
Level of Responsibility
• Working independently with minimal supervision, exercising significant judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions with significant impact on the leadership team's effectiveness, the organization's priorities, and the ability to meet objectives.
• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple audiences with differing knowledge levels; role requires strong negotiation, influence, and communication to senior leaders and large groups.
• Having significant influence over how the leadership team operates and over key organizational decisions and priorities.
• Using deductive and inductive problem solving across incomplete or conflicting information; advanced data analysis and synthesis skills are required.
• Exercising creativity to design new processes and mechanisms without established objectives or known parameters.
• Regularly participates in strategic planning affecting the broader organization.
Minimum Qualifications:
• 7+ years of Project Management-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
9+ years of Project Management-relevant work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$150,300.00 - $225,500.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link .
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