Senior Director, Product Management – Platform & Shared Services

Why this role matters:

We are looking for an experienced Product Leader that has either deep CSP or CPaaS product experience to join us at a pivotal stage of our growth as we begin to open up the opportunities that come with being part of Ericsson.

This is an opportunity to support & empower a highly respected globally distributed and diverse Product Management team – as well as an opportunity to truly influence how billions of people around the world communicate (bold statement, we know!)

We are looking for this leader to drive product strategy & execution for our core platform and a number of critical shared services whilst playing a pivotal part in creating the next generation of these services. This will include BSS, OSS, Product Design & Developer Experience.

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What you will do:

• Go-to-Market & Revenue Generation
• Create strategic direction and monitor effectiveness of the go-to-market process.
• Create pricing frameworks for the Product Management function.
• Own the overall product financial forecast.
• Create and maintain customer segmentation.
• Ensure product marketing processes align with and support corporate strategic objectives.
• Lifecycle Management
• Oversee development and implementation of Product Management governance processes and workflows enterprise wide.
• Establish and manage project interdependencies and priorities.
• Identify and champion creation of new products and capabilities to meet evolving business challenges.
• Own responsibility for project risk identification and resolution.
• Strategy
• Establish overall Product Management direction and actively support associated goals and objectives.
• Own annual strategic planning and priority setting processes.
• Oversee creation and maintenance of multi-quarter strategic BU roadmap.
• Continually seek opportunities to maximize revenue generation.

What you will bring:

• Senior level product leadership experience operated in a role that has global impact and scale
• Commercial experience and understanding of how good product management can influence and impact the sales activities
• Product leadership skills at the executive level – confident & comfortable articulating product vision to C-Suite and Board Members
• Experience leading product management within either the CSP or CPaaS space – deep knowledge of either is required
• Deep understanding of developer APIs and API are built and operated at scale
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.

Ability to:

• Define, articulate and drive the vision, strategy, architecture, design, and implementation of complex, large scale software systems.
• Present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a wide variety of audiences.
• Identify risks and threats in current and emerging technologies, procedures, features and operations.
• Develop technical and process skills in others.