Req #6063 | Senior Product Manager

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Senior Product Manager

Location: US Home Office | Plano, TX | San Jose, TX

Requisition #6063

Job Overview:

At Spirent, Product Managers drive our business. PMs hold the critical responsibility for identifying and developing business opportunities from inception to end-of-life, including business case development, securing program funding, defining product strategy, pricing strategy, maintaining financial accountability, go-to-market, ensuring operational execution, and being a source of industry leadership.

We need a product manager with a passion for defining unique test and assurance solutions to industry-wide challenges with network security, performance, and resiliency in an increasingly cloudified world. We stand at the precipice of a massive opportunity and seek a special product manager that can guide our cloud network security solutions focused on validating SASE, Zero-Trust, and cloud-native security network functions by defining and developing products, working with other Spirent teams to deliver comprehensive solutions, and launching solutions to maximize market impact.

This candidate must have a business-first mindset with excellent written, verbal and presentation skills. Ideal candidate will exhibit a drive and the ability to deeply understand customers' needs and pain points, translate customer needs into product requirements and interface with engineering teams to build world class products and they assist the Marketing teams and Sales channel with go-to-market and pre-sales enablement.

The Product Manager will be part of the Cloud and Security Solutions team within the Cloud & IP Business Unit. You will need both a broad and deep understanding of the SASE and Zero Trust Networks and Cloud-enabled and cloud-native networking and security markets and technologies and be capable of providing direction amid fast changing market conditions. You will be Spirent's eyes and ears in the field, and a leader in the market and an advocate for our customers.

Ideally you have experience as a Product Manager or Solution Architect delivering networking, cloud or security solutions at a managed service provider, telco service provider, or as a commercial or open-source vendor to these communities. Knowledge of public cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Containers and Cloud Native Functions is a strong plus.

About Spirent Communications

Spirent is the leading global provider of automated test and assurance solutions for communications networks, cybersecurity, and positioning.

We provide innovative products, services, and managed solutions that address the test, assurance, and automation challenges of a new generation of technologies, including 5G, cloud, autonomous vehicles, and beyond. From testing in the lab to testing in the real world, Spirent helps companies deliver on their promise to their customers of a new generation of connected devices and technologies.

Why Spirent?... Because together we can shape tomorrow!

Spirent is its people. When you join the Spirent team, you will join forces and work alongside some of the industry’s most passionate subject matter experts. In an environment of innovation, you will find a place where you can grow, think, explore, create, and make change happen.

At Spirent, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to thriving in the ever-changing world of global technology. We embrace a culture where difference is valued and openness, mutual respect, collaboration, and fairness are considered fundamental. Spirent does not tolerate discrimination or offensive behavior of any kind. We are committed to creating workplaces that genuinely reflect the diversity of the world we serve and an environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic self to work.

Your success is vital to our success, which is why we will support you to perform, grow, and contribute – with the confidence to be yourself. And to support your personal wellbeing, we hope you will love our dedication to creating the right work and life balance experience!

Join Spirent and together let’s shape tomorrow!

Job Responsibilities:

• Identify new business opportunities and then develop and present the corresponding business cases to justify investment where warranted.
• Define and execute cutting edge, focused test solutions for Cloud and Security markets (SASE, Zero-Trust, Security CNFs) consisting of a mixed portfolio of products and services. You may not personally manage all the products and services in your solutions.
• Meet with customers worldwide to present, listen, validate, and capture requirements. Meetings will be both online and in-person.
• Collaborate with corporate marketing to develop and execute go-to-market strategies and programs to drive adoption of our solution for the overall market and targeted, high value accounts.
• Support customer success and sales enablement by building and presenting technical decks and training to clearly articulate technical and business value to sales, customer success and customers.
• Research the competitive landscape in cloud security and cloud network test markets to formulate competitive strategy, and articulate key differentiation.
• Seek to constantly drive alignment across all Spirent stakeholders including internal functional groups as well as partners.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineer, Computer Science, or related field from an accredited university required or equivalent work experience. MBA is a plus.
• 8 years of experience in product management with 2 years of cloud networking or cloud security solutions.
• Ability to identify a customer's business challenges in addition to technical requirement. Must be able to speak to both areas, succinctly describe the relationship between the two, and quantify the business case for investment.
• Experience in driving full product lifecycle management from conception, writing product requirements, working with engineering to build the product, and then working with sales to drive customer adoption.
• Highly collaborative with soft skills such as public speaking, maturity, and the ability to build rapport quickly with customers/colleagues.
• Willingness to make principled decisions in a rapidly evolving landscape even when 100% of the desired information is not available.
• Able to guide and lead cross-functional teams directly and through influence.
• Creativity. Rapid changes in technology, customers, engagement, and purchasing patterns demand flexibility and creativity to drive success. Rote repetition of past successes will not deliver success.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $147,312.00 - $179,597.88 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

Compensation package:

• Bonus pay

Experience level:

• 8 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Product Management: 8 years (Required)
• Cloud Networking or Cloud Security: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote