Senior Product Manager of “NGN Operations” Market
Senior Product Manager of “NGN Operations” Market
Responsibilities and Duties:
The Senior Product Manager defines the market and product strategy for the “NGN Operations” market. He/she develops a long term vision aligned with the company strategy and defines the execution plan.
“NGN Operations” scope includes network monitoring, engineering and capacity planning for access and core networks using IP/MPLS and Ethernet technologies.
The Senior Product Manager main mission is to define, plan and coordinate the deliverables of the InfoVista’s Service Assurance solution for this market.
The position works closely with multiple internal organizations including product marketing, pre-sales, sales and engineering as well as externally with customers and technology partners. The position will report into the Senior Director of Product Management.
To apply email resume to jobs@infovista.com
Main responsibilities and duties are:
- Products Portfolio, Strategy:
- Responsible in defining the “NGN Operations” strategy for InfoVista.
- Defines the product roadmap supporting the strategy
- Coordinate the full life-cycle through business needs identification, product requirements, implementation review, beta testing and product launch, in coordination with TPMs, R&D and Product Marketing Department
- Delivers the Product Requirements Document that specifies Use Cases, functions and required integrations, in coordination with the TPMs
- Specify and control content of demos showcasing for the solution functionality
- Competitive analysis, acquisition targets identification and participation to technical due diligence
- Contribute to products collaterals in coordination with product marketing
- Customers, prospects, sales support:
- Develop customers intimacy to understand pains, challenges and identify future evolutions
- Roadmap presentation to key accounts in the world
- Manage and prioritize customer’s request into the product roadmap throughout the life cycle
- Train pre-sales engineers on product
- Partners & CSPs’ organizations:
- Work closely with network equipment partners (main partners are Cisco, Alcatel Lucent, Huawei, Juniper) to share roadmaps, understand technologies and strategies.
- Participate in industry bodies such as MEF, TMF
Qualifications/Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in the networking or OSS industry
- 3+ years experiences in Product Management for software products
- B.S. in computer science or engineering
- Field experience is a plus (consultant, presale …)
Skills required
- Good knowledge of Network technologies (TCP/IP, MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, VPN, Mobile Backhaul, Microwave, Netflow)
- Good understanding of the Communication Service Providers business
- Expertise in Network Management domain with a focus on “Service Assurance” (SLA, Performance, Fault, provisioning).
- Strong customers’ interactions know how. Intimacy with NOC’s Managers / Engineers, capacity planners.
- Self starter with good interpersonal and strong verbal/written communication skills
- Understanding of the software architecture is a plus
Additional information
- 30% travel in US and Europe
- Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
InfoVista is the leading provider of service performance assurance software solutions for IP-based network and application services. We empower communication service providers and large IT enterprise organizations to transform their IT infrastructure into a distinctive asset for revenue generation, customer loyalty and business agility by adopting a quality centric approach to expedite the launch of innovative, differentiated and performing services ahead of the competition. InfoVista’s unified network performance management and application performance management platform equips 80% of the world’s largest operators and a roster of global enterprises with the actionable visibility they need to ensure a high-quality user experience end-to-end, by holistically and effectively assuring the performance and quality of their converged network and IT services, while keeping operational costs as low as possible. InfoVista is traded on the Euronext Paris (FR0004031649) and can be found online at www.infovista.com
