Product Manager

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: Product Manager

Location(s): Basking Ridge, NJ

Support of field testing may be required each time that we launch new campaign functionality so driving may be required at times.

The Technical Product Technologist is a multidisciplinary resource and leader in a team that advances technology and innovation to,

• deliver profitable growth.
• Improve speed to market.
• Manage cost, in the area of Network Enablers/APIs.
• The successful candidate will collaborate with the TPD leadership as well as with internal and external teams to drive business objectives for the organization and company.

The technologist must be an innovative technical thought leader, work with initiative, specifically expected to: Drive API strategy and commercialization::

• Development of API based network profile requirements.
• Slicing discovery and recommendations for future functionality.
• Understanding and influencing future network roadmaps.
• Map SA and slicing roadmaps to PoV targeting.
• Understand commercial tradeoffs of API performance functions and data and cannibalization of current revenue.
• Customer requirements gathering for new network profiles.
• Be customer centric.
• Drive all actions with the end customer/user in mind.
• Be capable of eliciting requirements from customers, analyzing and identifying where Network can solve pain points and/or deliver extra value. Create requirements based on customer needs and develop, define and document end-to-end architectures and specifications to scale use cases that require network enablers / APIs.
• Be capable of identifying opportunities/patterns that repeat across customers and can scale. Research & evaluate 3rd party suppliers for E2E technology solutions.
• Identification and quantification of customer KPIs linked to customer pain points or missing value that can be addressed by the network, as well as how much can the network improve the KPIs.
• Evaluation of the impact and implications to the partner stack from using each network enablers, in terms of functional changes derived from using APIs and associated TCO Drive adoption:
• Build strong relationships across a network of internal and external collaborators with the intention of driving scalable and sustainable solutions Make recommendations and build consensus
• Communicate to key stakeholders and gain consensus that the specifications meet the technical requirements and business expectations.
• Be process effective.
• Understand the technical product life cycle.
• Create SOW's (Statement of Work) to drive solutions with suppliers.
• Ensure technical and relevant business compliance.

What we're looking for... You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree (preferable in both technical and business).
• Strong knowledge of network technology (specially on performance and security/identity) and business management.
• Strong interpersonal, communications and presentations skills.
• Experience in product life cycle management from concept to launch including the delivery of: requirements for distributed systems, high level design documents, testing methodology and customer feedback
• Strong demonstrated capability to lead a technical matrix team to a common goal.

Even better if you have:

• Proven experience driving roadmaps from inception to completion past the revenue line.