Product Line Manager – Mobile Core Service Assurance

Viavi Solutions•Home Office, CA

About The Position

VIAVI Solutions is seeking a strategic, highly technical Product Line Manager for its Automated Mobility Solutions business unit, responsible for evolving the NITRO Mobile product portfolio. The role drives product strategy, roadmap, and commercial success for next-generation Mobile Core Service Assurance solutions, combining cellular network expertise with software product management. It connects engineering, data science, marketing, and sales to deliver cloud-native observability, automated root-cause analysis, and AI-driven insights to global Tier-1 Communication Service Providers. The Product Line Manager owns assigned NITRO Mobile core service assurance modules throughout their lifecycle, from market requirements and product definition through development, launch, and sunset. The role defines a multi-year roadmap, supports the shift toward automated network operations and network slicing assurance, and ensures platforms can handle high-throughput 5G telemetry. It translates 3GPP standards and service-based interfaces into software requirements, collaborates on orchestration, data-layer, and machine-learning capabilities, and manages profitability, pricing, packaging, market analysis, and high-value pre-sales activities. The position requires deep knowledge of 4G EPC and 5G Standalone architecture, telecom protocols and telemetry, and familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure and industry standards. The successful candidate will bring substantial technical product management experience in telecom OSS/BSS, monitoring, or service assurance, along with commercial acumen and the ability to communicate complex technical challenges to executive-level operator decision-makers.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 to 10 years of experience as a technical Product Manager, Product Line Manager, or Solution Architect in telecom OSS/BSS, monitoring, or service assurance.
Mastery of 4G Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and 5G Standalone architectures, including AMF, SMF, UPF, NSSF, and NWDAF.
Deep understanding of mobile core protocol stacks, including HTTP/2, GTPv2, Diameter, and SIP/IMS, and real-time capture infrastructure such as DPI, virtual taps, and eBPF telemetry.
Working familiarity with cloud-native deployment patterns, including Kubernetes, AWS/Azure telco clouds, containerized applications, and distributed high-scale data architectures such as Kafka and ClickHouse.
Familiarity with 3GPP performance management and trace specifications and TM Forum automation/service management frameworks.
Demonstrated experience managing software product pricing, constructing software subscription models, and generating business cases for major technology shifts.
Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and collaborate with software developers, system architects, finance, product marketing, and executive leadership.
Exceptional ability to explain complex technical infrastructure challenges as clear value propositions for C-suite operator decision-makers.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for assigned NITRO Mobile core service assurance modules, from inception and market requirements definition through development, launch, and eventual sunset.
Define the multi-year portfolio roadmap, balancing tactical customer commitments with long-term evolution toward automated network operations and network slicing assurance.
Champion cloud-native observability and ensure NITRO Mobile platforms can handle high-throughput 5G user-plane and control-plane telemetry.
Translate 3GPP standards and service-based interfaces into software requirements for data collection, probe ingestion, and analytics dashboards.
Drive integration with modern orchestration and data layers, aligned with industry automation benchmarks such as TM Forum Open APIs.
Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to specify and validate machine-learning anomaly detection, predictive health indicators, and automated service triage models.
Manage product-line profitability, pricing strategies, and packaging frameworks as the portfolio shifts toward virtualized, cloud-native subscription and SaaS delivery models.
Conduct market analysis of total addressable market, competitive landscapes, and emerging operator pain points.
Support high-value pre-sales activities, including technical portfolio briefings, proof-of-concept scoping, and responses to complex RFI/RFP requirements for major global carriers.