Director, Engineering Product Line Management

Req ID: 120312 
Remote Position: Yes 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 

Summary

At Celestica, technology is driving advancements that are revolutionizing the way we live and work. Our end-to-end product lifecycle solutions support the most complex products across multiple markets, including communications, enterprise, aerospace and defense, smart energy, healthcare technology, industrial and capital equipment.  Our customized solutions provide new and faster ways to develop products in the competitive enterprise and cloud markets.

Celestica’s Product Solutions Team has an opening for a Director, Technical Product Line Manager. This individual must possess a strong technical networking software background who can drive the SONiC roadmap at a detailed level with our team, and perform competitive analysis. The position would have a strong external component working directly with customers, partners, and our sales teams to gather feedback and create technical collateral. Also, the successful candidate is someone visible in the community/industry comfortable presenting technical solutions at conferences and other public events.

The ideal candidate has experience with hardware and software product management, understands the full product lifecycle (cradle to grave), and has strong program management experience with ongoing parallel projects. The candidate will own all commercial aspects of products and should possess strong analytical abilities and judgment and be an active contributor in setting up processes to increase the impact of strong product management practices. This opportunity requires excellent business, technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Detailed Description

• Extensive experience with customer engagements, product management, engineering, and partner community to accelerate the adoption of networking products and technologies.
• Trusted advisor in building technical and business credibility with key stakeholders by representing the voice of the customer to influence architecture decisions.
• Passionate and seasoned presenter experienced at delivering in-depth product presentations and demonstrations at all levels.
• Experienced implementing solutions that operate deep in the technology stack that includes routing, switching, IP network protocols, enterprise/ DC networks, routing protocols and monitoring. 
• Ownership of commercial deployments of product solutions for networking/switching/routing (primary), storage, and server products
• Keep abreast of new technologies, market trends and customer requirements for networking, storage and server products
• Engage key organizations within Celestica to drive collaboration of new product solutions, based on customer feedback, supplier technologies and market data
• Create and drive approval on business cases for products going to market, including product pricing.
• Manage customer sample systems (requirements, management, allocation, recovery, etc.)
• Review/approve engineering change requests from development and customers
• Drive Value Engineering sessions to continuously reduce product costs
• Participate in all phase gate reviews for your products
• Oversight of Product transfers (design and/or manufacturing)

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Entrepreneurship, positive attitude, ability, desire, and willingness to make an impact
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Ability to adjust communication style based on the audience (from highly detailed to executive summary)
• Strong project management skills and experience, including managing internal and external stakeholders, and multiple launches and projects at once
• Proven success in managing complex and multi-faceted hardware product programs with the ability to drive projects through completion
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and ensure deadlines are met and expectations exceeded
• Must thrive in a work-from-home environment
• Expect 10-25% travel (international and domestic) when it is safe to travel.
• Technical Skills include: IP Networking | Network Operating System, SONIC, IOS, JUNOS, EOS, Routing Protocols | BGP | OSPF | VxLAN | Network Design | EVPN | RADIUS | Network Security | ACLs Firewall | IPS | Network Observability | Prometheus | Linux | Bash | Python Customer Engagements | Cross-functional Teams | Partner Engagement | Agile-Scrum | Network Automation | Ansible

Typical Experience

• 10+ years of relevant product management experience for complex Hardware and Software products
• Experience at a Service Provider or Enterprise company preferred.
• Recent experience in a fast-paced, multinational technology company

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