Product Lifecycle Manager

Role overview

Business and lifecycle management

• Build business cases covering pricing, margins, revenue opportunities, costs, competitive positioning, investment trade-offs, and profitability.
• Create product strategies for profitable growth and graceful retirement.
• Engage customers and account teams on network evolution, architecture, roadmap assumptions, and customer outcomes.
• Coordinate product information and timelines across R&D, design, procurement, quality assurance, sales, and support.
• Turn market, customer, standards, technology, and competitive insights into requirements, investment priorities, and lifecycle plans.
• Use engineering change orders and risk mitigation to address supply-chain bottlenecks, technical barriers, and market shifts.
• Make data-informed lifecycle decisions and align Engineering, Supply Chain, Marketing, Services, and account teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field; an advanced technical degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of Product Lifecycle Management experience with telecom, datacom, or networking equipment vendors.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and delivering through influence across technical, commercial, operational, and customer-facing groups.
• Hands-on business experience with business cases, pricing, forecasting, portfolio planning, competitive analysis, profitability, investment prioritization, and lifecycle decisions.

Additional qualifications

• Preferred strengths include clarifying ambiguity, making trade-offs, evaluating innovation, and communicating with engineering and executive audiences.
• Preferred technical knowledge includes FTTx PON, OLTs, ONUs, OMCI, Netconf/Yang, IP routing, IPv4/IPv6, BGP, QoS, and OAM.
• Preferred experience includes Data Center and Service Provider architectures and network modernization work with Tier-1, Tier-2, or cloud/network operators.
• Emerging technologies of interest include AI-enabled operations, streaming telemetry, intent-based networking, cloud-native network functions, programmable infrastructure, SRv6, network slicing, and orchestration.

Pay and benefits

• The posting lists salary ranges of $114,100–$182,300 for Canada and $137,800–$220,200 for the USA, without specifying a pay cadence.
• Eligible employees may receive discretionary incentive bonuses or sales commissions, and benefits include health coverage, retirement plans, stock purchase, holidays, leave, and vacation.