Product Manager: Network Services-WAN
Role: Product Manager: Network Services-WAN
Experience: 8-14 years
Location: New Delhi
Responsibilities
- 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.