Product Lifecycle Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develop and manage product business cases that encompass pricing strategies, margin analysis, revenue opportunities, cost structures, competitive positioning, investment trade-offs, and profitability goals.

• Create strategies for scaling profitable products while managing their gradual phase-out.

• Collaborate with account teams and clients to identify network evolution priorities, facilitate architectural discussions, validate roadmap assumptions, and position Ciena solutions to achieve customer outcomes.

• Work in partnership with R&D, design, procurement, quality assurance, sales, and support teams to ensure synchronization of product data and timelines.

• Transform customer needs, market dynamics, standards evolution, technological trends, and competitive insights into product specifications, business cases, investment priorities, and lifecycle strategies.

• Execute engineering change orders and risk mitigation plans to tackle supply chain bottlenecks, technical challenges, and market fluctuations.

• Generate urgency and alignment across Engineering, Supply Chain, Marketing, Services, and account teams.

• Make informed product lifecycle decisions grounded in data and technical analysis.

• Propel revenue growth, market success, customer satisfaction, and profitability for Broadband FTTx and DCOM products.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related discipline.

• Over 10 years of experience in Product Lifecycle Management roles within telecom, datacom, or networking equipment sectors.

• Proven history of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and achieving results through influence across engineering, commercial, operational, and customer-facing teams.

• Practical experience with business cases, pricing strategies, forecasting, portfolio planning, competitive analysis, profitability assessments, investment prioritization, and product lifecycle decisions.

• A proactive, action-oriented mindset with the ability to quickly manage competing priorities and sustain momentum in a dynamic environment.

• Demonstrated ability to clarify ambiguity, make informed trade-offs, simplify complex issues, and unite teams around execution milestones and measurable results.

• Strong judgment in evaluating innovation based on technical feasibility and business impact.

• Effective communication skills, ranging from detailed engineering discussions to executive-level transformation narratives.

• Extensive technical knowledge of FTTx PON technologies and products, including OLTs, ONUs, OMCI, and Netconf/Yang.

• In-depth understanding of IP networking and routing technologies, including IPv4/IPv6, BGP, QoS, OAM, and Service Provider network architectures.

• Experience with Data Center and Service Provider architectures across access, aggregation, metro, core, edge, DCI, and cloud interconnect.

• Direct experience working with Tier-1, Tier-2, or cloud/network operator customers on network modernization or service evolution projects.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled operations, streaming telemetry, intent-based networking, cloud-native network functions, programmable infrastructure, SRv6, network slicing, and advanced orchestration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.

• Participation in 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.

• Eligibility for discretionary incentive bonuses for non-Sales employees.

• Sales commission eligibility for Sales employees.