CIENA CORPORATION – $175,427.00/Year

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Computer Engineering or foreign equivalent, an MBA and 15 years of work experience in the telecommunications industry. Experience to include the followingbr 4 years of experience in Product Management, including defining commercial products for optical transmission hardware and software andor related optoelectronic component solutions; coherent communication technology deployed in customer multimillion dollar networks at a global scale; managing PLM optical network products for submarine reach gt;5000km, Long Haul reach gt;1000km and metro networks reach gt;100km for carriers and internet content providers; managing product definition and feature delivery of optical networks systems Transponders, Line System, and Management sw; and Carrier Class, Data Center, and Web Services customer sales cycle and processes and Business development through definition of features for existing and future products.br 4 years of experience in Research Development, including with relevant products at optical networking companies such as Ciena, Nortel, Nokia, Lumentum, Infinera, StrataLight, Mintera, Finisar; RD experience designing optical transport products; working with or defining requirements for photonics circuits Indium Phosphide and Silicon Photonics for coherent systems; and with digital signal processing feature sets and applications across at least 2 generations 65nm, 45nm, 28nm, 14nm etc.; and participating in definition of next generation optical tranport products.br 4 years of experience in Sales Marketing, including relationships into system integrators where candidate has sold at least one generation of product that was selected, integrated, and deployed; sold product into equipment integrators; sold products integrated into carrier networks; relationships with system integrators customers at least four IC and WS Providers ICPs; experience with application and customers problem to anticipate requirements; relationship with decision makers at ICPs i.e. network architects, technology selection, procurement; defining product evolution and managing transition between product generations i.e. move next generation product and maintained account; and marketing products integrated into data center networks.br 3 years of experience in Business Development, including proven track record working on integrating products in third party systems and articulating and delivering multivendor integrated solutions; established relationships with Global, Tier 12 Systems Integrators Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Dell, Nokia, Fujitsu, ADVA and others, Internet Content and Web Services Providers Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Uber, Oracle, Salesforce and others and developing knowledge of their specific needs and concerns; relationships with key decision makers procurement making decision on vendor selection, product management setting product requirements, and RD managers that integrate equipment into their platforms into at least 4 system integrators; and in Optical Systems Components Intracompany and external Company interactions.