Technical Program Manager – MEC Full Time

Verizon is looking for a senior level manager to define and drive execution on product strategies around 5G and edge compute. 5G will usher in the 4th industrial revolution where companies, big and small, will re-define the way they work through automation and real-time insights into their business processes. The massive bandwidth, device density, ultra-low latency, and battery efficiency of 5G coupled with Edge Compute will empower people, devices, and systems to interact efficiently and safely in a highly automated environment.

This position reports directly to the business leader for edge compute at Verizon. And as such, they will help drive service to revenue within and across product organizations. A key aspect of this will be the focus on service orchestration at the ordering, provisioning, and lifecycle management of products linked to edge compute. This senior product manager will define the resulting set of capabilities in our multi-access edge compute (MEC) platform. This will include defining and executing strategies from devices to network and through to solutions and services residing on MEC. If you’re excited by 5G, want to help lead from the innovative edge, and have a deep mastery of product development, then join us in making Verizon the most successful edge provider on the planet!

• As a senior product manager, you will be a critical part of the Verizon Business Group organization that owns the business model and P&L, feature development and prioritization of the product roadmap, customer segmentation and pricing, and demand generation for impactful new products. You will work across engineering teams, business development, and marketing to set strategy, define the product, and make the difficult, high-judgment trade-offs between features and time-to-market. You will partner with the technical leaders of the organization to ensure the developer experience, programming model, scalability and reliability promises, and cost efficiency delight our customers. Additionally, you will:
• Author documents relating to product life cycle including product roadmap, business requirements and functional specifications.
• Drive product development across teams (primarily Engineering, Operations, Product Management, Business Development, and Marketing) through business requirements, design, implementation, and deployment.
• Create the managed service deployment models for Private 5G and MEC coupled with virtual enterprise network services.
• Create a low-touch MEC device integration program for developers. Drive product marketing to create an promotion program across the OEM community. Drive Engineering to deliver self-certification toolsets and onboard design house partners to aid OEMs in their MEC integration.
• Own designing business models, pricing, channel strategy, target segments, customer profiles, execution plan and financial business case for relevant use cases that leverage Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality and/or Precision location throughout different verticals.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering as an advocate for the needs of our customers.
• Evaluate industry innovations and technology platforms and identify partnership and collaboration opportunities.

What we’re looking for…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

Even better if you have:

• A degree in a technical field (computer science or engineering degrees) or MBA.
• Ten or more years of demonstrated full-lifecycle ownership of product development, with cross team and cross discipline execution, either directly or as an organizational leader.
• Ability to conceptualize new, innovative applications/services and justify design, build, and/or buy decisions using solid ROI analysis.
• Knowledge of business objectives and be creative enough to help define what we build, with demonstrated experience leading developer facing product efforts.
• Strong communication skills to manage the large degree of external interaction with customers and partners the role needs.

When you join Verizon…

You’ll have the power to go beyond – doing the work that’s transforming how people, businesses and things connect with each other. Not only do we provide the fastest and most reliable network for our customers, but we were first to 5G – a quantum leap in connectivity. Our connected solutions are making communities stronger and enabling energy efficiency. Here, you’ll have the ability to make an impact and create positive change. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, join our team of the best and brightest. We offer great pay, amazing benefits and opportunity to learn and grow in every role. Together we’ll go far.

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