Viavi Solutions
Product Marketing Director (Wireless) (Finance)
VIAVI has an exciting opportunity for a Product Marketing Director with experience and expertise in Wireless communication networks including RF and Protocol technologies.
The Product Marketing Director will spearhead the identification of new products and services for the VIAVI Network Services Enablement Wireless portfolio.
Responsibilities include:
• Entrepreneurial role developing concepts and ideas for new products and services as well as examining new market areas for business expansion.
• Work directly with senior management to develop a business plan and champion new business ideas.
• Product management of products, features, technologies in the Viavi 4G/5G network test solutions portfolio
• Generation of product requirements specifications, technical requirements and business case development, as well as developing product/market positioning strategies and product pricing
• New product development planning including market research, identifying business opportunities and competitor landscape
• Working in collaboration with engineering product owners to develop detailed technical specifications in an agile development process
• Negotiate/arbitrate between customer/sales side and engineering over feature scope and delivery schedules
• Generation of material such as roadmaps and product feature slides for publication to sales and customers
• Contributing to new product launch and introduction activities. Including input to collateral and launch plans in association with Marcoms and Applications EngineersEssential Qualifications
• Hold an Engineering Batchelor's Degree in Electronics or Telecommunications is a minimum and have a strong technical background, with a wide knowledge of Wireless Networking Protocols
• Confident, self starter, able to negotiate product requirements effectively between customer side and engineering
• Excellent presentation and communication skills (verbal and written) essential
• Customer facing experience
• Previous experience within an Engineering (research, development or field application engineers), product management or technical marketing.
• Business case and competitive analysis
Important to have:
• Strong technical background in the mobile comms industry, primary 4G and 5G RAN.
• Good understanding telecoms network topology, services, UE/network Protocol stack (L1 to L7)
• Experience with cloud networking techniques such as AWS/GCP VPCs, IP address allocation, networking drivers and security restrictions is important
• Strong grasp of cloud infrastructure/computing Technologies such as Virtual Machines, Docker, LXC & Kubernetes on Hypervisors such as ESXi/KVM
• Managing products in AWS, GCP and Azure Clouds and working knowledge cloud native technologies such as microsevices key. GKE, AKS, EKS and/or Openshift. (GCP Anthos is a plus)
An advantage
• Knowledge of disaggregation, O-RAN FH and F1, transport and synchronization an advantage
• Knowledge of RF and Network Test & Measurement
• Knowledge of networking such as Openvswitch, DHCP, L3 routing between Nodes & PODs. Understanding of VM bypass techniques & I/O technologies such as DPIO, DPDK, SR-IOV
• UX/UI and Automation skills eg Python, Jenkins/Robot.
• Experience of onboarding and orchestration of VNFs on Redhat Openstack via Ansible, Neutron and/or Heat Templates
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.