Director, Advanced Network Planning

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $154k - $246k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Ciena

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1985

📡 Telecommunications

🔧 Hardware

💰 Series C on 1995-12

Telecommunications • Hardware • Networking

Ciena is a global leader in optical and routing systems, services, and automation software. We build the world’s most adaptive networks to address ever-increasing digital demands for richer, more connected experiences for all users. For three-plus decades, we’ve brought our innate sense of humanity to our relentless pursuit of innovation.

📋 Description

• Direct the Advanced Network Planning group within the Navigator Network Control Suite Product Line Management organization • Lead a team of network analysts supporting Ciena’s largest customers on tactical and strategic network planning initiatives • Lead executive and technical engagements with Ciena’s global sales organization and customers • Guide the design, optimization, and analysis of optical, IP, and data centre network architectures • Identify emerging customer and market needs and translate them into research themes, product hypotheses, and planning tool concepts • Set the technical research agenda for network planning and optimization approaches • Establish evaluation criteria and validate methods through real customer network planning projects • Define and communicate the technical vision for advanced network planning • Provide technical direction and partner with product management, engineering, and product development teams • Translate validated concepts into scalable planning capabilities and bring them to market • Partner with hardware teams to model and analyze alternative network architectures • Influence product roadmap decisions with data-driven insights • Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of network planning experts • Establish technical standards and strengthen critical capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of telecommunications experience spanning deep technical roles and positions with product, customer, or business leadership accountability • 10+ years of expertise in optical and IP transport technologies, including network architecture, control, resiliency, capacity engineering, and optimization trade-offs • Substantial experience in network planning, architecture analysis, optimization, and applying analytical methods to complex customer networks • Proven experience providing technical and product leadership for telecommunications software applications from concept and validation through productization, deployment, and measurable market adoption • Experience using AI tools as aids to software code development • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Demonstrated ability to evaluate and apply AI-enabled methods to network planning, optimization, modeling, and decision support • Sound judgment regarding data quality, model validation, explainability, operational risk, and measurable customer outcomes • Experience using AI-enabled tools and methods to accelerate software development, explore architectures, prototype algorithms, analyze networks, and improve engineering productivity while maintaining technical review and validation • Experience developing, deploying, or governing AI and machine-learning technologies in telecommunications or other complex, high-availability environments • Customer-facing experience relating to network consultancy services or similar • Hands-on experience with Python or comparable analytical programming tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Discretionary incentive bonus eligibility for non-sales employees • Medical, dental, and vision plans • 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 leaves of absence • Development opportunities • Flexible work arrangements • Support for employee growth and well-being