Job Description

Based in the Montreal Corporate Head-Office, this senior level role will report to the Vice-President, Marketing and Product Management.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving the product and portfolio definition of Accedian’s world class solutions. You will be involved in creating and executing a comprehensive business plan to enhance our high performance service assurance solution. This will include gathering of requirements, building a roadmap and feature set focused on enhancing our solution capabilities.

The objective of this role is to act on and surpass customer requirements and expectations by creating, developing and rolling out the innovative, industry based products for today and for future requirements. Over time you will become recognized as an industry expert and develop the knowledge of market requirements for performance assurance and performance monitoring solutions.

We are not just looking for a Senior Product Manager....we are seeking senior Product Leadership!

You will lead and develop an experienced Product Management team as they collaborate with the development team in an Agile development model.

As a product management professional, you will work with internal local and remote resources to help improve internal processes required to track and prioritize product feature requests. Working hand in hand with Product Marketing you will collaborate on defining marketing programs and materials to support the commercial product launch and promotion of new and existing products.

You will lead the product roadmap for all Accedian solutions and manage the product life cycle from development to release, cost reduction initiatives, and end of life processes. You will participate in defining product revenue goals and managing product profitability, and assuring that everything is in place to achieve revenue and profitability objectives. You will work with channel partners to develop new markets, train the sales force on product features and assist with the sales process in winning major accounts.

This is a highly collaborative role working with sales, R&D, engineering, etc. focused on meeting and exceeding the needs of our customers while at the same time managing the integrity of our product and feature set. The ability to collaborate and influence will be critical to your success. You will manage cost reduction programs, maintain price-lists and product ordering schemes and ensure that the product meets all regulatory and compliance criteria.

This is a high visibility position requiring up to 50% of travel, meeting with customers, attending tradeshows, presenting at conferences and gathering product feedback that can be translated into new and viable features that gets implemented into the product through the R&D team.

Desired Skills & Experience

Qualified candidates will have 15 years plus of Product Management experience within the telecom industry; coupled with at least 5 years in a leadership position. Experience within the Ethernet or Wireless backhaul space would be a plus You have a University degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Marketing or a related field and have a proven track record of driving the development and go to market strategy for a wide range of products and managed services.

The ideal candidate will have the unique blend of technical and business skills, with the ability to drive and motivate the development teams; ensuring that we meet and exceed customer commitments.

You are creative, entrepreneurial and have the ability to listen, learn, lead and influence key business decisions. You have strong communications skills, both written and verbal and have the ability to present to a variety of audiences within and outside the organization.