Product Line Manager - Telecom

Title / Position: Product Line Manager - ROC Partner Settlements, Cost Management, and Route Optimization Product Sets

Mission:

- The Product Manager (PLM) is responsible for the Partner Settlements, Cost Management and Route Optimization product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, creating and managing the product roadmap, defining the product vision, and working closely with the Technical Product Manager, Roadmap engineering team, sales, BSC, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.

- The Product Manager's job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.

Responsibilities:

- Define the product strategy and roadmap

- Deliver BRDs (Business Requirements Documentation) and Roadmap information with prioritized features and corresponding justification

- Be an expert with respect to the competition

- Act as a leader within the company

- Candidate will interface with regional teams to continue to understand market changes and needs, and will translate those into roadmap priorities as appropriate.

Competencies:

- Substantial knowledge and understanding of current strategies with respect to Telecom Wholesale Voice and Data Settlements, and Telecom Route Optimization practices and solutioning

- Strong presentation skills for both internal and external audiences

- Ability to generate messaging that will help establish and maintain as the thought leader in this domain

- Leadership and communication skills, to facilitate strong working relationships with internal departments (engineering, marketing, sales, etc.)

Essential Skills & Experience:

- Good knowledge of various settlements domains in telecom, including strategies / best practices for wholesale settlements in the face of newer technologies (LTE, MM, etc.)

- Understanding of how wholesale billing will be evolving in the coming years, as it relates to newer network technologies that are emerging today

- Working knowledge of similar competitive products/offers

- Ability to work in a team environment, with collaborative skills across internal departments is a must

Desired Skills & Experience:

- Knowledge of the predominant telecom products and services being offered to customers in most markets today

- Familiarization with differences in billing practices across regions and products

Education:

- Field experience in settlements as described above is most important.

- Understanding the business value being offered by Subex solutions, and how to grow that value, is key

Other factors:

- Must be able to travel globally, and be able to have and maintain a current passport (expect 10% travel or less)