Sr Director Product Mgt.

• Define and execute a comprehensive business strategy, setting clear goals and tactics.
• Deliver annual commitments on financial metrics, securing new customer partnerships.
• Collaborate with optical businesses on future roadmap, ensuring market competitiveness.
• Engage with R&D, supply chain, and sales teams to enhance product excellence.
• Understand lead customer needs, delivering tailored solutions for business success.
• Identify high-value applications, supporting RFPs, and maximizing profitability.
• Enable and support the sales team with expertise during market introduction.
• Develop compelling marketing materials and pricing strategies for the product platform.
• Coordinate with PLM to deliver customer-focused solutions, ensuring satisfaction.
• Evaluate ROI scenarios, making data-driven decisions for business growth.

Experience and requirements
* 10 or more years of experience as a Product Manager, System Architect of similar technology position in the optical communication industry
* Experience in customer interaction
* Experience in the optical networking companies is desired.
* Ability to address problems and topics outside of direct experience, abstract and understand and communicate content, natural problem solver
* Ability to work independent and self-organized
* Ability to work in a distributed team and in international environment
* Ability to work flexible and deviate from initial plans, outcome focused
* Ability to contribute to and shape business with fundamentally new technology / architecture
* Strong presentation skills (including management and customer presentations, conference talks and plenum discussions)
* Requires Travel