Product Line Manager

Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era, advancing fixed, mobile, and transport networks. The Product Line Manager identifies and prioritizes product opportunities, defines technical requirements, builds business cases, and coordinates product development, launches, customer demonstrations, and sales support.

Responsibilities:

• Synthesizing input from regional business centers, pre-sales organizations, marketing, business development groups, standards bodies and customers to identify and prioritize development of features and products with maximum business impact
• Building business cases to select and justify development opportunities that optimize short & long term revenue and profit by delivering real value to our customers
• Defining detailed technical requirements for product development and test groups, including but not limited to scaling, redundancy, security aspects, and overseeing the technical development and implementation of those requirements
• Reviewing functional specifications and test plans with R&D to ensure requirements alignment, and reviewing marketing and documentation strategy and collateral
• Balancing market & customer demands with R&D capabilities/resources and general NI strategy and direction
• Searching for opportunities to open new markets and differentiate vs competitors but also be practical to ensure we spend dev effort on profitable ventures
• Preparing and hosting decision review meetings for new releases in coordination with all stake holders and driving it to approval
• Staying up to date in your areas of responsibility by reading standards, talking with customers & regional colleagues, looking at competitor whitepapers & communications
• Creating technical customer documentation with the help of the technical writers
• Supporting sales & support teams with product expertise and delivering presentations to internal groups and external customers
• Supporting the RFI, RFP processes including network design, bill of material creation, and guiding strategy product pricing
• Working with NPI and regional teams to build and execute demonstrations and PoC's
• Occasional travel to other Nokia sites and customer premises

Requirements:

• Degree Level: Master's degree
• Requires ability to influence others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures
• Requires influencing others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures, e.g. by expressing complex information in an engaging and inspiring manner
• Management Experience / Mastery of a specific professional discipline combining deep knowledge of theory and practice within a function. Expert in more than one area, broad perspective. Typically requires 7-10 years extensive relevant experience and/or a graduate / postgraduate equivalent degree
• Deep knowledge of Linux and the primitives enabling containerization
• Excellent technical expertise in Telecommunications, IP Networking, Router or switch architecture and Embedded Operating Systems, and the automation platforms that drive them
• Experience in technologies used in modern networking managements stacks; gRPC, NETCONF, REST
• Experience in the technologies behind networking AI datacenters, including congestion prevention techniques (ECN, PFC, DLB), DPU management, job scheduling, and rail/rail optimized architectures
• Strong interpersonal, cross-team collaboration and negotiation skills as well as the ability to influence others
• Familiarity with software and hardware product development methodology
• Ability to rapidly build solid technical understanding across a broad set of functionality and design