Director, Product Line Management – Waveserver PLM Team (Optical Networking)

Location: Ottawa, Canada; remote work indicated

Salary: CAD 166,000–265,200 per year

Company

hirify.global is a technology company focused on high-speed connectivity and optical networking solutions.

What you will do

• Define Waveserver product strategy, roadmap direction, investment priorities, and lifecycle plans.
• Translate customer, sales, and market requirements into product requirements and release priorities.
• Lead alignment across engineering, marketing, supply chain, procurement, services, and sales.
• Manage customer engagements, roadmap discussions, RFP/RFQ responses, offer defense activities, and product trials.
• Develop business cases for features, hardware and software releases, pricing, cost optimization, and investment decisions.
• Manage revenue planning, forecasting, margin improvement, competitive positioning, and product-line profitability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications, networking, communications systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience, including 5+ years in product line management or equivalent work.
• Experience with coherent optical systems, DWDM, OTN, Ethernet services, optical transport architectures, coherent pluggables, platform software, and network management.
• Experience leading new product introductions, developing business cases, and growing product revenue in competitive technology markets.
• Experience with pricing, forecasting, margin management, competitive analysis, customer value positioning, and cross-functional stakeholder influence.
• Ability to communicate with executive audiences and customers and support customer engagements with occasional travel.

Nice to have

• MBA or equivalent business leadership experience.
• Experience with hyperscale, cloud, carrier, subsea, government, enterprise, or research and education customer segments.
• Experience with high-capacity optical transport platforms, coherent modems, encryption, automation, open management interfaces, or network control software.
• Experience working with global sales, field engineering, customer engineering, procurement, and supply chain organizations.
• Experience leading product decisions through formal product lifecycle, governance, or business decision-point processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment focused on employee growth, well-being, belonging, and inclusion.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, retirement contributions or matching programs, and an employee stock purchase program.
• Company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable family and other leave programs.
• Discretionary incentive bonus eligibility for non-sales employees.