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Senior Director, Product Line Management – DWDM Coherent Optics | Nokia (Hybrid)

Lead business strategy for Nokia/Infinera’s DWDM coherent optics portfolio, guiding product direction, profitability, and customer growth. Drive roadmap planning and coordinated go-to-market execution across global teams.

Description

  • Own the multi-year business plan for DWDM coherent optics, including revenue and profitability objectives.
  • Build effective partnerships across R&D, supply chain, sales, and executive leadership.
  • Engage strategic customers to capture needs and feedback for product and marketing decisions.
  • Identify valuable applications and support RFP efforts to strengthen engagement and secure new business.
  • Create marketing content and pricing strategies that clearly convey product value.
  • Coordinate optical business units around technology development and roadmap priorities.
  • Assess business cases, competitor performance, and return-on-investment scenarios to guide strategy.
  • Equip sales teams for product launches with appropriate resources and training.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in product management or optical communications system architecture.
  • Demonstrated success creating multi-year business plans and meeting profit-and-loss commitments.
  • Substantial experience engaging customers and developing business opportunities.
  • Outstanding presentation ability with management, customers, and conference audiences.
  • Experience with optical transceiver products or closely related technologies is preferred.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively within distributed, international teams is preferred.
  • Experience assessing return-on-investment cases and competitor benchmarks is preferred.
  • Knowledge of marketing strategy and pricing optimization is preferred.

Benefits

  • Eligible roles may include variable compensation.
  • Company-supported laptop ordering.
  • Hybrid work arrangement.

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