About the position
The Lead Product Manager, Branch Solutions, plays a pivotal role in our organization, driving product strategy and execution to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs and align with our business goals. This position requires a deep understanding of product management principles, strong leadership skills, and the ability to manage complex projects. The Lead Product Manager will collaborate closely with engineering, marketing, and sales teams to ensure the successful development and implementation of high-quality branch solutions. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, owning mass market business-to-business products from ideation to launch and end of life, a strong background in IP networking is essential for this role, along with a passion for innovation, and possess excellent communication skills. You will work within a fun culture with a strong engineering team on the development of a wide set of features and collaborate with various teams from all over the company. You will work closely with the entire Product Management team to understand and deliver on the strategic big picture, while inherently and independently being detail-oriented, organized and driven enough to identify and produce the pieces required to put that picture together.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the product strategy for our Branch portfolio, aligning with Ericsson's overall vision, market needs, and the evolving landscape of enterprise branch technologies and use cases.
- Utilize our vast metrics and customer-focused data sets alongside your own market research to continually find the next big growth opportunity, explore the latest industry trends and features to propose ideas on how we can bring them to our service.
- Collaborate on overall Branch product strategy towards our product vision and mission by synthesizing user and business needs into product priorities and roadmap.
- Partnering with engineering, design, data science, analytics, marketing, and other key groups to release world-class hardware, features, and functionality, measure the success of products and strategize iterative improvements by defining requirements for products and features by writing detailed use cases that capture user needs and scenarios.
- Own release management, including writing and distributing product briefs and managing releases.
- Partner with our Customer Support and Success teams to champion Branch users, understanding and prioritizing their feedback, investigate and resolve technical issues.
- Monitor the progress of tickets, clear blockers, and answer business/product questions for the development team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in the networking industry with 5+ years product management focused on network solutions (including Wi-Fi, networking protocols, etc.) for branch networking; as well as in depth understanding of edge devices (including routers, switches, Wi-Fi AP's, firewalls, etc.)
- Experience working with communication networks (IP/TCP, VPN, Cellular, etc.), networking infrastructure, protocols, SD-WAN Controllers, WAN optimization, IP routing, switching and Wi-Fi is required.
- Demonstrated experience in leading development of a product from ideation to launch and through end of life and improving existing products by shipping increments in an Agile environment.
- Strong customer focus and a well-honed sense of empathy for regional and cultural considerations towards building a global experience.
- Strong written and verbal skills to communicate with technical partners, peers, and executive management alike clearly and effectively; as well as the ability to write clear and thorough specifications and user stories.
- Demonstrate strong experience with data-informed decision making; know how and when to leverage qualitative and quantitative experimentation, and adept at analyzing results from these experiments.
- Bachelor's degree in various fields of study is applicable. Computer Science, Engineering, marketing, project management or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary range of $204,000 - $306,000 depending on various factors.
- Short-Term Variable Compensation Plan with annual bonus opportunities based on performance.
- Excellent health benefits including multiple medical plan options and dental coverage.
- 401(k) Plan with automatic company contributions and matching.
- Minimum of 15 days of accrued vacation, 3 personal days, 11 annual holidays, 8 hours of volunteer time, and 80 hours of sick time annually.
- Up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
- Additional company-paid benefits such as financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, and recognition programs.
