VP, Automotive Sales - China

Job Description

Job Posting Date

2025-09-12

Additional Job Posting Location

Beijing CHN; Shanghai CHN

Company:

Qualcomm China

Job Area:

Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group, Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group > Sales - ACIP

General Summary:

This leadership role can be based in Shanghai, Beijing, or Shenzhen.

We are seeking an accomplished and visionary VP to lead our China Automotive business line. As a key leader at QUALCOMM China, you will shape the future of Automotive technology, leveraging our cutting-edge chipsets, software, and systems to transform user experiences. Your strategic insights, technical acumen, and leadership will drive our success in this dynamic field.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with executive team members to define our Automotive vision and mission. Align Automotive strategies with our overall business objectives.
• Understand the customer’s and partners’ business, strategies and partners’ business, and facilitating business deals ensuring alignment with Qualcomm’s business objectives and requirements
• Lead a talented Automotive team. Foster innovation, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Conversant of Automotive trends, emerging technologies, and industry standards. Drive innovation by integrating our package of chipset, and system solution as the underlying Automotive technology, and evolve our software developer SDK/HDK solutions to as many app developers as possible.
• Identify strategic opportunities for Automotive applications across multiple vertical markets. Cultivate partnerships with OEMs, developers, and content creators.
• Have in-depth expertise and robust experience in building business cases for previously unidentified business opportunities and influencing strategic business partners to define and deploy technology-based solutions
• Own the overall customers, including developing and managing relationships across the technical and commercial groups.
• Oversee Automotive budgeting, resource allocation, and cost-effective execution of all products.
• Manage and negotiate complex long-term commercial agreements with major global companies.
• Analyze market dynamics, customer needs, and competitive landscapes. Make data-driven decisions to position our Automotive offerings effectively.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business or a related field of study
• 15+ years of demonstrated success in Business Development, Sales, Product Management or related work experience.
• Customer engagement at automakers and Tier-1's at executive and leadership level
• Ten (10) years of leadership experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, MBA or a related field of study
• Twenty (20) or more years of related work experience, industry, eco-system, customer, and competitive knowledge
• Ten (10) or more years of leadership experience including people management
• Ten (10) or more years working in a global technology organization
• Deep understanding of Automotive developer, applications and services ecosystem, managing platform level software roadmap with SDK/HDKs releases for the developer community.
• Understanding of open source software development and the open source community.
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• SoC architecture knowledge
• Press and analyst event experience

In addition to experience, the successful candidate will have demonstrated competencies in the following areas:

Strategic Execution: Ensures execution plan drives key strategic priorities and company goals; has significant impact on the direction of a large number of critical projects. Drives timely, complex, and strategic decisions that have a global reach and/or significant business or financial impact while adhering to Qualcomm standards of ethical behavior.

Coaching & Development: Provides leadership across organizations (e.g., creates a strategy for organization development, develops a strong talent pipeline/workforce and drives talent development to execute present and future business priorities, sets clear expectations for departments, drives coaching and mentoring relationships, creates a culture of inclusion and learning) and motivates peers, senior leaders, and employees to align individual, team, department, and organization development with the broader vision and goals of the company.

Impactful Innovation: Inspires stakeholders, the company culture, and the industry with a visionary approach that shapes the organization by introducing and enabling breakthrough ideas, products, and/or processes. Creates new business opportunities by challenging the organization to push boundaries while taking the appropriate risk and anticipating future needs.

Clear Communication: Translates the strategic vision into succinct and impactful messages that inspires and connects efforts to the broader vision and goals of the company. Acts as a champion for proactive, open, respectful, and inclusive discussions.

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