Director, Product Line Management

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $170.5k - $272.3k / year

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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

• Define and drive 6500, Coherent ELS & Waveserver E-Series product strategy, roadmap direction, and investment priorities • Translate customer, sales, and market requirements into product requirements, release priorities, and lifecycle plans • Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, marketing, supply chain, procurement, services, and sales throughout the product lifecycle • Drive customer engagements, roadmap discussions, RFP/RFQ responses, offer defense activities, and product trials • Develop business cases for features, hardware, software releases, pricing strategies, cost optimization initiatives, and investment decisions • Manage product line performance through revenue planning, volume forecasting, margin improvement, competitive positioning, and lifecycle profitability • Monitor market developments across optical networking, coherent technologies, service provider networking use cases and applications, encryption, automation, open APIs, fiber sensing, and low- and high-capacity aggregation applications • Contribute to the direction of high-capacity optical transport solutions by translating customer and market requirements into differentiated products and business outcomes • Support portfolio growth, profitability, and long-term product leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications, networking, communications systems, or equivalent practical experience • 10+ years of relevant industry experience, including at least 5+ years of product line management or equivalent experience • Application of coherent optical systems, DWDM, OTN, Ethernet services, optical transport architectures, coherent pluggables, platform software, and network management concepts • Experience leading new product introductions, developing business cases, and growing product revenue within a competitive technology market • Experience aligning cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders • Experience with pricing, forecasting, margin management, competitive analysis, and customer value positioning • Experience communicating with executive audiences and customers, managing complex priorities and trade-off decisions, and supporting customer engagements through occasional travel • MBA or equivalent business leadership experience • Experience with hyperscale, cloud, carrier, subsea, government, enterprise, or research and education customer segments • Experience with high-capacity optical transport platforms, compact modular systems, coherent modems, encryption, automation, open management interfaces, or network control software • Experience working directly with global sales teams, field engineering, customer engineering, procurement, and supply chain organizations • Experience leading product decisions through formal product lifecycle, governance, or business decision point processes

🏖️ Benefits

• Development opportunities • Flexible work arrangements • 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 • Discretionary incentive bonus eligibility for non-sales employees • Sales commission eligibility for sales employees

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