Routing and Switching Product Line Manager

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the business performance for designated Routing and Switching products and solutions.

• Lead the strategy, define the roadmap, develop business plans, ensure execution readiness, make lifecycle decisions, and drive financial outcomes.

• Collaborate with account teams and customers to pinpoint network evolution priorities and engage in architectural discussions.

• Confirm roadmap assumptions and position solutions to enhance customer outcomes.

• Convert customer needs, market trends, evolving standards, technological advancements, and competitive insights into product requirements, business cases, investment priorities, and go-to-market strategies.

• Create and sustain product business cases that encompass pricing strategies, margin goals, revenue prospects, cost structures, competitive positioning, investment trade-offs, and profitability objectives.

• Coordinate with Engineering, Supply Chain, Marketing, Services, and account teams from concept through to launch, adoption, and lifecycle management.

• Direct roadmap and portfolio planning based on customer demand, market necessities, technology readiness, platform economics, competitive differentiation, and execution considerations.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Over 5 years of experience in Product Management, network architecture, technical strategy, systems engineering, or a related position in telecom, networking, cloud infrastructure, or Service Provider markets.

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

• Experience in developing business cases, pricing strategies, forecasting models, portfolio plans, competitive analyses, profitability evaluations, investment prioritization frameworks, and product lifecycle decisions.

• Capability to manage competing priorities, sustain momentum, and execute in a dynamic environment.

• Knowledge of IP networking and routing technologies, including IPv4/IPv6, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, Segment Routing, multicast, EVPN, QoS, OAM, and Service Provider network architectures.

• Familiarity with Service Provider architectures across access, aggregation, metro, core, edge, DCI, cloud interconnect, business services, and converged packet-optical environments.

• Proficient in communicating with engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

• Experience in assessing innovation based on technical viability, customer value, execution risk, time-to-market, differentiation, and financial return.

• Background in working directly with Tier-1, Tier-2, MSO, or cloud/network operator customers on network modernization, routing transformation, service evolution, or automation projects.

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

• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguity, evaluate trade-offs, simplify complexities, and align teams around execution milestones and measurable outcomes.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Sales commission eligibility for sales employees.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• 401(K) (USA) and DCPP (Canada) with company matching contributions.

• 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.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Support for employee growth and well-being.