Principal Product Manager

Our client, a global infrastructure technology organization is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead strategy and execution for a portfolio of next-generation routing platforms supporting service provider, enterprise, and cloud-scale environments. This role sits within a team responsible for high-performance access, aggregation, and edge routing solutions powering modern WAN architectures and AI-driven network infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Define roadmap and product strategy across access, aggregation, edge services, peering, and data-center interconnect routing platforms.
• Shape next-generation routing hardware and optical interface requirements.
• Translate customer and market insights into MRDs and platform investment priorities.
• Partner closely with engineering on feasibility, architecture direction, and delivery execution.
• Support field enablement and roadmap positioning with customers and partners.
• Optimize product configuration mix, pricing strategy, and lifecycle profitability.
• Contribute to WAN innovation supporting AI training and inference network deployments.

Requirements & Qualifications:

Strong experience with carrier-grade routing technologies including:

• BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, PCEP
• MPLS, SR-MPLS, SRv6, RSVP-TE
• L2VPN / L3VPN / VXLAN / Ethernet services.
• Streaming telemetry, Netconf, OpenConfig, gRPC
• IPSEC, MACSEC, RPKI

Additional strengths:

• Experience managing hardware platform portfolios.
• Ownership of complex NPI cycles.
• Ability to influence engineering and GTM stakeholders.
• Strong commercial and lifecycle strategy experience.
• Background working with service providers, cloud operators, or large enterprises.

Preferred:

• 10+ years product management or equivalent routing infrastructure experience.
• Advanced engineering degree or MBA.