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Senior Product Line Manager
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Own the strategy, roadmap, commercial success, and lifecycle of an Open RAN product line. Translate operator needs and market opportunities into differentiated products, working with engineering, sales, customers, and partners from concept through deployment.
Responsibilities
- Own product line strategy, positioning, roadmap, business case, and lifecycle decisions, balancing operator value, differentiation, revenue, and cost.
- Identify operator needs, market shifts, and competitive gaps; translate them into prioritized requirements, releases, and acceptance criteria.
- Evaluate AI/ML, automation, cloud-native RAN, energy innovation, and 5G-Advanced/6G opportunities and develop business cases focused on customer and commercial value.
- Lead R&D, systems engineering, QA, and program management through scope, schedule, quality, and cost trade-offs from concept to launch.
- Recommend pricing and packaging; manage forecasts, margin targets, revenue and adoption KPIs, and roadmap adjustments based on commercial and field results.
- Engage operators through roadmap reviews, RFx responses, trials, and initial deployments; support sales and pre-sales on deals and proposals.
- Manage partners, multi-vendor interoperability, security, regulatory needs, and applicable 3GPP and O-RAN requirements.
- Coordinate go-to-market and lifecycle execution with marketing and sales, including positioning, enablement, release readiness, customer feedback, and end-of-life plans.
- Use AI tools to support market analysis and product decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 10 or more years in telecom or wireless infrastructure, including 5 or more years in product or product line management, or equivalent experience.
- Track record taking a product from concept to commercial deployment with operators, including roadmap, business case, releases, and results.
- Technical understanding of 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G RAN and operator deployment and operations.
- Experience engaging operators and supporting sales across RFx responses, trials, and roadmap reviews.
- Strong analytical, pricing, and communication skills; able to influence global, matrixed teams and present to executives, customers, and engineers.
- Able to travel internationally as needed.
- Entrepreneurial, value-driven approach to AI/ML and emerging technology, focused on customer problems and business outcomes.
Nice to have
- Hands-on Open RAN and multi-vendor RAN experience.
- Engineering, systems engineering, solutions, or pre-sales background.
- Experience launching AI/ML, automation, or energy-saving RAN products.
- Experience with hardware and software product lines, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
- MBA.