Principal Product Manager

Company Description

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed home broadband, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G, 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel has over 403 million customers across its operations.

Roles & Responsibilities:

This role is for a lead product manager to head devices for Airtel’s broadband/homes business. This position will report to the head of devices as part of the Network vertical and will lead a small team of product managers working closely with business/marketing, operations , SCM teams and external ODM teams to define/develop Wi-Fi ONT and Access Points, 5G FWA and IoT CPE ( customer premise equipment ) devices for Airtel’s Homes business.

In this role, you will

• Define product strategy, Uncover and understand Business/Customer needs and translate them into requirements.

• Define product specifications covering Software, Electrical and Mechanical elements - work with engineering team    on detailed Software solutioning , Electrical/Mechanical BoM analysis and component selection as part of product  specification

• Own/Drive overall project schedules and quality – program managing the product from concept to delivery will be one of the primary responsibilities for this position

• Understand, research, and follow technical trends in the industry and in general. Able to assess emerging products and companies to measure their potential value or threat to the company and its products, as well as make recommendations on which new technologies to invest in or leverage.

• Provide internal training on how to use the product.

• Define success criteria for testing and product acceptance. Coordinate beat tests and field trials

• Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation.

• Own the relationship with SoC vendors (Mediatek, Realtek, Qualcomm) and ODMs

Required Skills:

• 15+ experience with minimum experience of 8-10 years on telecom/networking products like Wifi routers, Access

Points, FWA , IP routers etc.

• Shall be familiar with chipset/OEM/ODM partners in the industry

• Shall be well versed with complete product life cycle management with an ability to work well with cross functional

teams

• A demonstrated ability to break down/translate high level business needs into detailed requirements, along with an ability make judgement calls on what is critical and what is desirable.

• Demonstrated ability to get into technical detailing/solutioning - Shall be familiar with technologies like GPON, Wi-Fi, 802.11, LTE, 5G NR, Easy Mesh. Hands on knowledge on TCP/IP, DHCP, PPP, NAT etc. A background of Wi-Fi/Networking stacks on Linux/RDK/OpenWRT is highly desirable

• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written