Product Line Manager – Mobile Core Service Assurance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +6 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the complete product lifecycle for designated NITRO Mobile core service assurance modules, spanning from initial concept and market requirement definitions to development, launch, and eventual phase-out.

• Develop a multi-year portfolio roadmap that balances customer obligations with strategic advancements towards automated network operations and network slicing assurance.

• Advocate for cloud-native observability tailored for high-throughput 5G user-plane and control-plane telemetry.

• Convert 3GPP standards and service-based interfaces into software requirements for data collection, probe ingestion, and analytics dashboards.

• Facilitate integration with orchestration and data layers in alignment with TM Forum Open APIs.

• Partner with engineering and data science teams on machine learning anomaly detection, predictive health indicators, and automated service triage.

• Oversee product line profitability, pricing strategies, and packaging for virtualized, cloud-native subscription and SaaS delivery models.

• Perform market analysis encompassing Total Addressable Market (TAM), competitive landscapes, and operator challenges.

• Assist in pre-sales initiatives, technical portfolio presentations, proof-of-concept projects, and responses to RFI/RFPs for major global carriers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Expertise in 4G Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and 5G Standalone (5G SA) architectures, including AMF, SMF, UPF, NSSF, and NWDAF.

• Extensive knowledge of HTTP/2, GTPv2, Diameter, SIP/IMS, DPI, virtual taps, and eBPF telemetry.

• Practical experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure telco clouds, containerized applications, Kafka, and ClickHouse.

• Acquainted with 3GPP performance management/trace specifications and TM Forum automation/service management frameworks.

• At least 8 to 10 years of experience as a technical Product Manager, Product Line Manager, or Solution Architect in telecom OSS/BSS, monitoring, or service assurance.

• Proven experience in managing software product pricing, creating software subscription models, and developing business cases.

• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries and collaborate effectively with software developers, system architects, finance, product marketing, and executive leadership.

• Outstanding capability to distill complex technical infrastructure challenges into clear value propositions for C-suite operator decision-makers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment

• Remote/home-office work arrangement