Product Lifecycle Manager

🔥 20 hours ago

🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $114.1k - $182.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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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

• Build and maintain product business cases covering pricing strategy, margin, revenue opportunity, cost structure, competitive positioning, investment trade-offs, and profitability objectives • Formulate strategies for scaling profitable products and managing graceful retirements • Engage with account teams and customers to uncover network evolution priorities, support architecture discussions, validate roadmap assumptions, and position Ciena solutions around customer outcomes • Partner with R&D, design, procurement, quality assurance, sales, and support teams to synchronize product data and timelines • Convert customer needs, market shifts, standards evolution, technology trends, and competitive insight into product requirements, business cases, investment priorities, and lifecycle plans • Implement engineering change orders and risk mitigation plans to address supply chain bottlenecks, technical roadblocks, and market shifts • Create urgency and alignment across Engineering, Supply Chain, Marketing, Services, and account teams • Make product lifecycle decisions based on data and technical diligence • Drive revenue growth, market success, customer satisfaction, and profitability for Broadband FTTx and DCOM products

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field • 10+ years of experience in Product Lifecycle Management roles working for telecom, datacom, or networking equipment vendors • Track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and delivering results through influence across engineering, commercial, operational, and customer-facing organizations • Hands-on experience with business cases, pricing, forecasting, portfolio planning, competitive analysis, profitability, investment prioritization, and product lifecycle decisions • Proactive, action-oriented approach with ability to move quickly, manage competing priorities, and maintain momentum in a fast-paced environment • Proven ability to bring clarity to ambiguity, make smart trade-offs, simplify complexity, and rally teams around execution milestones and measurable outcomes • Strong judgement evaluating innovation through technical feasibility and business impact • Ability to communicate effectively from detailed engineering discussions to executive-level transformation narratives • Deep technical knowledge of FTTx PON technologies and products, including OLTs, ONUs, OMCI, and Netconf/Yang • Deep technical knowledge of IP networking and routing technologies, including IPv4/IPv6, BGP, QoS, OAM, and Service Provider network architectures • Experience with Data Center and Service Provider architectures across access, aggregation, metro, core, edge, DCI, and cloud interconnect • Experience working directly with Tier-1, Tier-2, or cloud/network operator customers on network modernization or service evolution initiatives • Familiarity with AI-enabled operations, streaming telemetry, intent-based networking, cloud-native network functions, programmable infrastructure, SRv6, network slicing, and advanced orchestration

🏖️ Benefits

• Development opportunities • Flexible work arrangements • Medical, dental, and vision plans • Participation in 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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