Network Product manager WAN

Role - Network Product manager WAN

Years of Experience - 8 to 15 years

Location - PAN India

• As a Product Manager the role holder will be responsible for managing the development and roll-out of new products and/or additional features and capabilities in existing and new products for Network Services (WAN) Technology.
• The PM works closely with key customers, product architects and project delivery and support to develop and manage new product releases and upgrades to customer's.
• The PM maintains the product road map, creates concept documents, business and use cases for new services, features and functions to support customer demands, growth strategies and profitability targets8 Regular connect with Networks resources to address their queries/concerns, work as a transparent lead and maintain positive energy to team.
• Understand customer needs and validate solutions, serve as primary product expert
• Lead product design, development and release process for assigned products and maintain the product development road map
• Drive product development with internal teams and external vendors - Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintain technical analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses
• Create detailed use cases, business requirements - Coordinate the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from customers and prospects
• Manage differentiated external technology vendors and internal developers to stand up proof-of-concepts for these technologies and demonstrate their value to the business, following an agile methodology of refining or pivoting on initial ideas
• Engage with multiple stakeholders to build the specification of new technologies
• driving innovative work practices with our business
• Build on successful proof-of-concepts to develop and manage live pilots which will see the integration of these technologies in our practice. Scale successful pilots into the mainstream operations of our business
• Ongoing horizon scanning of relevant technologies and how these may impact in flight innovation initiatives
• Work closely with domain Product Managers to remain aligned with broader
• innovation initiatives
• Manage stakeholders expectations in relation to deliverables and identify risks on innovation initiatives as they are developed
• Set and agree budgets and produce project plans and progress reports, keeping stakeholders informed of status
• Coordinate beta testing of new products and features. Document and report
• problems and recommend solutions/improvements to program managers.
• Participate in product performance benchmarking activities
• Maintain project milestone schedules for each initiative ensuring on-time delivery for distribution.