Director, Product Line Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Establish and lead the product strategy, roadmap direction, and investment priorities for the 6500, Coherent ELS & Waveserver E-Series.

• Convert customer, sales, and market needs into product specifications, release priorities, and lifecycle strategies.

• Facilitate cross-departmental collaboration among engineering, marketing, supply chain, procurement, services, and sales throughout the product's lifecycle.

• Manage customer interactions, roadmap discussions, respond to RFP/RFQ requests, conduct offer defense activities, and oversee product trials.

• Create business cases for features, hardware, software releases, pricing strategies, cost optimization efforts, and investment choices.

• Oversee product line performance via revenue planning, volume forecasting, margin enhancement, competitive positioning, and lifecycle profitability.

• Keep track of market trends in optical networking, coherent technologies, service provider networking applications, encryption, automation, open APIs, fiber sensing, and both low- and high-capacity aggregation applications.

• Influence the direction of high-capacity optical transport solutions by converting customer and market demands into unique products and business results.

• Aid in portfolio expansion, profitability, and sustained product leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications, networking, communications systems, or equivalent hands-on experience.

• Over 10 years of relevant industry experience, including a minimum of 5 years in product line management or similar roles.

• Proficiency in coherent optical systems, DWDM, OTN, Ethernet services, optical transport architectures, coherent pluggables, platform software, and network management concepts.

• Experience in leading new product launches, developing business cases, and increasing product revenue in a competitive technology landscape.

• Proven ability to align cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders effectively.

• Familiarity with pricing strategies, forecasting, margin management, competitive analysis, and customer value positioning.

• Strong communication skills with executive audiences and customers, capable of managing complex priorities and trade-off decisions, with occasional travel to support customer engagements.

• MBA or equivalent experience in business leadership.

• Background in hyperscale, cloud, carrier, subsea, government, enterprise, or research and education customer segments.

• Knowledge of high-capacity optical transport platforms, compact modular systems, coherent modems, encryption, automation, open management interfaces, or network control software.

• Experience collaborating directly with global sales teams, field engineering, customer engineering, procurement, and supply chain organizations.

• Proven track record in leading product decisions through formal product lifecycle, governance, or business decision point processes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Development opportunities.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.

• DCPP (Canada) with company matching.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Company-paid holidays.

• Paid sick leave.

• Vacation time.

• Paid Family Leave and other types of leave.

• Discretionary incentive bonus eligibility for non-sales employees.

• Sales commission eligibility for sales employees.