Hybrid Product Line Manager

at Ciena

• Job title: Product Line Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $114,100 - $182,300 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Ottawa, United States

About the role

• Product Line Manager at Ciena working on high-speed interconnects solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and commercialize product strategies.

Responsibilities

• Work in a cross-functional manner across Ciena’s modem and component teams
• Develop commercialization requirements such as SDK, documentation content, and sales support framework
• Define product strategy and multiyear roadmap for technologies such as CPO, NPO, Advanced optical packaging and Electrical interconnects
• Define commercial offer and pricing structure
• Develop business cases and get approval for new features or initiatives
• Continuously assess customer needs, technology trends, regulatory environment, and major competitors
• Gather feature requirements from key customers
• Develop and maintain strategic product roadmap, priorities, and gap analysis
• Partner with marketing teams to develop product positioning and marketing collaterals
• Work with product line managers and R&D architects in prioritizing features
• Assist sales with coherent modem/components roadmap presentations
• Serve as a key interface between engineering and sales/customers.

Requirements

• Technical degree (BSEE minimum)
• 10+ years technical experience in telecommunications or component industry
• Successful 3+ years of Product Management experience in telecom systems or components
• 8-10+ years of demonstrated experience in relevant areas including FAE and Sales Engineering
• Familiarity with the major players in the optical and electrical interconnect market
• Solid knowledge of high speed interconnect technologies (such as Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), Near Packaged Optics (NPO), Active Electrical cable (AEC), active copper cable (ACC), coherent, direct detect, Serdes, PHYs, electro-optics)
• Technical background and understanding of a wide variety of interconnect technologies
• Solid understanding of how to commercialize interconnect optics and sub-components
• Superb communication, presentation, customer interaction and interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate highly technical matters to non-technical individuals
• Flexible, able to balance multiple tasks with minimal direction
• Self-motivated
• Need to work well with a virtual team or individually as necessary.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision plans
• participation in 401(K) (USA) & DCPP (Canada) with company matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• company-paid holidays
• paid sick leave
• vacation time