Product Manager
Required Qualifications: (Education, Technical Skills/Knowledge)
• 1 - 5 years of experience with telecom products. Must have minimum 5 years of product management experience, or previous experience in user experience design, strategy development, business development, partnership development, and/or solutions marketing.
- Network routing (BGP, IGP, IP/MPLS) or network security (DDOS) background at service providers is preferred.
- Experience in an agile development environment is preferred.
• Product management / business acumen – understand Go To Market requirements for networking solutions
• Degree in engineering or computer science; MBA or advanced degree is an asset but not required.
• Must be comfortable working collaboratively across many groups within the organization including sales, business development, product management, marketing, services & support, manufacturing/operations, program management, legal, and finance
• High energy and ability to influence/lead others; willingness to work in a fast-paced environment
• Great project-management skills
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Excellent understanding of the industry landscape (competitors and partners)
• Ability to shift from high-level thinking to realistic and pragmatic execution is essential
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills: ability to communicate technology strategy and architecture approach to engineers, executives, and customers; proficiency in conflict management, negotiation, and presentation/demonstration
• Willingness and ability to work with teams, ability to build relationships using an open and respectful communication and collaboration style
Desired Qualifications: (Education, Technical Skills/Knowledge)
• 10 years of increasing responsibility for positioning and delivering networking solutions including optical, Ethernet and IP networking offering
• Demonstrable experience in identifying changing business models, and ability to associate these to changing solution/product and architecture requirements
• Strong internal consulting skills to work with external and internal customers in driving their architecture needs and will routinely deliver presentations to stakeholders
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