AMS Core Product Line Manager

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for telecommunications, cloud, enterprises, first responders, military, aerospace, and railway. VIAVI is also a leader in light management technologies for 3D sensing, anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, government and aerospace applications.

We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are passionate about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company – to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Duties & Responsibilities:

VIAVI has an exciting opportunity for a Product Line Manager with a proven track record and desire to lead the strategy and product roadmap of Viavi’s core assurance portfolio.

Viavi’s core assurance solutions help customers manage and support their critical mobile network and services infrastructure.  5G Networks are evolving and becoming more complex, so visibility into network and service performance is more critical than ever to ensure superior subscriber experience.

This role will work closely with customers, development partners, and prospects to drive the strategy of our core assurance solutions to meet customer needs and grow market share.  

Reporting to the VP/GM of the Automated Mobile Solutions business unit, this role will be an essential member of the leadership team. 
 

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the product strategy and roadmap of the Core Assurance portfolio to support Viavi business growth objectives.

• Competitive Analysis - Engage in research and conversations with end users, customers, partners, and industry experts to understand market dynamics to create sustainable competitive strategy and positioning.

• Support management to create business plans and new business ideas.

• Working closely with the customers, sales and business development to identify, define and generate solution requirements.

• Collaborate with VIAVI engineering and support & service teams to help define and deliver cutting-edge solutions.

• Negotiate/arbitrate between customer/sales side and engineering over solution scope and delivery.

• Support Solution launch and introduction activities. Including input to collateral and launch plans in association with Marcoms and Applications.

• Manage the product lifecycle

• Perform pricing, cost, and margin analysis on products and deals.

• Provide technical direction and training on applications to the sales team.

• Perform analysis on relevant metrics for the health of the product line.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

Requirements:

• At least 10 years in product management in the telecom core operations and solutions showing successful product development and management.   Hold a relevant bachelor’s degree with a strong technical background in mobile networks.

• Experience with core and ran service assurance and observability solutions.

• Strong technical background in the mobile communication industry (3G, 4G, 5G, IMS) core networks, protocols and services.

• Familiar with User Plane DPI analysis and KPIs for Control Plane and User Plane protocols.

• Experience with network architectures and probing methods - both physical and virtual.

• Experience with cloud network infrastructure such as AWS/GCP/AZURE and security requirements is important.

• Strong grasp of cloud infrastructure/computing Technologies such as Virtual Machines, Docker, LXC & Kubernetes.

• Ability to understand and position complex solutions to help customers solve critical business and technical problems.

• Comfortable operating at Senior Management and executive level. Excellent presentation and customer communication skills (verbal and written) essential.

• Well-connected in the industry with a deep understanding of the ecosystem, partners, channels and their roles in the development and delivery of new solutions.

• Confident, self-starter, able to negotiate product requirements effectively between the customer side and engineering.

• Experience creating business cases and competitive analysis.

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.

VIAVI Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer – minorities/females/veterans/persons with disabilities.

Job Posting Pay Range:

123,900

to

230,100