Job Description

Are you our next product manager, a visionary with a business-oriented mindset?

Then this is the opportunity to work within an international organization bringing exciting test solutions to the telecom industry.

VistaTest is a market leading brand with a set of solutions that are used around the world to deploy, verify, troubleshoot and optimize mobile networks. We are now searching to grow our product management team with a passionate professional.

As a product manager, you will be working with defining product strategy, realization and follow up of product decisions, be responsible for the product profit and loss. You will be driving the product roadmap with customers and release planning together with the Engineering team.

Your Profile

You are a passionate professional predicting market trends and customer needs and converting them to product requirements, and work with a best-in-class organization to realize the vision.

You thrive on turning customer complex problems into ubiquitous solutions, leveraging technology innovation and accounting for market directions. You are a skilled presenter, balancing detailed technical descriptions and value selling messages.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Product Manager to support the evolution of our network testing solutions. As part of a team of product managers, you will be working primarily with our Sales, Pre-Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Support organizations to:

• Analyze market trends as well as customer workflows, processes and needs to lead the product strategy
• Maintain and prioritize the product roadmap to satisfy existing customers, attract new prospects and ensure long-term competitiveness
• Interact with customers to align product roadmap with market expectations
• Create and evaluate business cases, create value proposition and pricing/packaging
• Translate customer/market requirements into functional feature requests for Engineering
• Collaborate with Engineering (development and QA) to prioritize feature development optimally
• Understand competitor offerings, look for differentiation and build competitive analyses
• Support and train the sales, presales and support organizations

Experience

• 7-10+ years of experience in the telecom industry.
• Strong 4G/5G RAN testing background, including experience with at least one major network testing solution (TEMS, Nemo, Accuver, R&S).
• Hands-on exposure to drive testing, walk testing, benchmarking and remote testing.
• Experience in product management, with proven ownership of product strategy, roadmap, requirements, prioritization and lifecycle management.
• Significant customer-facing experience with mobile operators, vendors, benchmarking/service companies or regulators.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Sales, Presales, Support and Product Marketing, balancing strategic investment, tactical customer requirements and maintenance.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of the mobile device ecosystem, including Android devices, chipsets, scanners and external measurement hardware.
• Knowledge of 4G/LTE and 5G NSA/SA, RF measurements, KPIs and Layer 3 signalling.
• Understanding of test scripting, workflow automation, work orders and campaign management.
• Excellent product strategy and prioritization skills, with the ability to balance customer requests, competitive needs, technical debt and strategic roadmap.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including presentation skills. Leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to align multiple engineering teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• The candidate must be a technical and business leader, with a customer focus.

Knowledge or expertise in the following domains can be a plus

• Cloud/SaaS, APIs, microservices and modern software architectures
• 4G and 5G network testing analytics
• UX and workflow automation
• AI/ML for root cause analysis automation