Lead - Service Operations and Product Management

Ciena Corporation4 months ago
Fort Worth, TX, United States
Remote
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Lead - Service Operations and Product Management

Postulerlocations:
Remote-US:
Remote-Canada

time type: Full time

posted on: Publié aujourd'hui

job requisition: R030865

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

The Product Manager is accountable for defining and delivering digital capabilities across end-to-end service supply chain and customer ops workflows.

They act as the bridge between business and IT, translating business needs into product features across CRM, integrations, and service systems, and driving measurable outcomes. They prioritize the roadmap based on business requirements, propose scalable solutions, act as the voice of the business in implementation, incorporate feedback and drive adoption.

They would also support the wider service supply chain business operations by developing processes in logistics, repair, distribution and global trade management.

The Must Haves:

  • Product leadership
  • Define and execute product roadmap aligned to business priorities
  • Build business cases by collaborating with stakeholders
  • Translate business needs into user stories, requirements, and backlog
  • Work with IT using Agile / Scrum (sprint planning, refinement, reviews)
  • Conduct discovery (stakeholder inputs, workflow analysis, gap assessment, validation)
  • Manage product lifecycle activities including releases, updates, and feature enhancements.
  • Monitor market trends and competitive landscape to inform product evolution.

Functional Areas

  • Define and enhance supply chain workflows including order management, logistics, inventory planning, repair and global trade.
  • Define and enhance CRM workflows (Salesforce) with focus on customer experience, case management and synergy between hardware requests/engineering dispatches/tech support.

System Skills

  • Support for production issues, escalations, service requests
  • Enable and support B2B integrations across partner systems
  • Lead and support UAT by defining and executing test scenarios, training end users and implementing feedback.
  • Use data analytics to drive decisions and improvements
  • System connectivity and data exchange platforms such as B2B integration, APIs, Snowflake, Mule Soft
  • Business analytics, data modelling - structuring data for workflows, reporting, and decisioning

Cross-functional collaboration

  • Drive alignment across operations, IT and cross-functional groups including supply chain, customer account teams, entitlement and services
  • Act as a change agent- define change management plan, train end users, document SOPs and lead adoption.
  • Lead projects with external vendors with clear documentation of requirements, current and future state process flows, data mapping and iterative feedback implementation.

Required Experience & Skills

  • Experience in product management within software, supply chain or telecommunication environments
  • Strong ability to translate technical requirements into product features.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills
  • Supply chain operations- order management, logistics, inventory, distribution, repair
  • Customer service and experience, technical support, service operations
  • Product Management and Agile/scrum practices – backlog grooming, sprint planning, release planning
  • CRM platforms such as Salesforce, Reporting tools (Power BI)
  • System connectivity and data exchange platforms such as B2B integration, APIs, Snowflake, Mule Soft
  • Business analytics, data modelling - structuring data for workflows, reporting, and decisioning

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree: in related field from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 7-10 years working on technology-powered products as a product manager/owner, engineer, data analyst, data scientist, or user...

Required Skills

Business analytics
Cross-functional collaboration
CRM platforms (Salesforce)
Product leadership
Supply chain operations
B2B integrations
Agile/Scrum methodologies
Change management
Data analytics