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- Director leading advanced network planning for Ciena, a global high-speed connectivity technology company. Guiding AI-enabled optimization research, customer engagements, and network planning product development.
Responsibilities
- Direct the Advanced Network Planning group within the Navigator Network Control Suite Product Line Management organization
- Lead a team of network analysts supporting Ciena’s largest customers on tactical and strategic network planning initiatives
- Lead executive and technical engagements with Ciena’s global sales organization and customers
- Guide the design, optimization, and analysis of optical, IP, and data centre network architectures
- Identify emerging customer and market needs and translate them into research themes, product hypotheses, and planning tool concepts
- Set the technical research agenda for network planning and optimization approaches
- Establish evaluation criteria and validate methods through real customer network planning projects
- Define and communicate the technical vision for advanced network planning
- Provide technical direction and partner with product management, engineering, and product development teams
- Translate validated concepts into scalable planning capabilities and bring them to market
- Partner with hardware teams to model and analyze alternative network architectures
- Influence product roadmap decisions with data-driven insights
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of network planning experts
- Establish technical standards and strengthen critical capabilities
Requirements
- 15+ years of telecommunications experience spanning deep technical roles and positions with product, customer, or business leadership accountability
- 10+ years of expertise in optical and IP transport technologies, including network architecture, control, resiliency, capacity engineering, and optimization trade-offs
- Substantial experience in network planning, architecture analysis, optimization, and applying analytical methods to complex customer networks
- Proven experience providing technical and product leadership for telecommunications software applications from concept and validation through productization, deployment, and measurable market adoption
- Experience using AI tools as aids to software code development
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate and apply AI-enabled methods to network planning, optimization, modeling, and decision support
- Sound judgment regarding data quality, model validation, explainability, operational risk, and measurable customer outcomes
- Experience using AI-enabled tools and methods to accelerate software development, explore architectures, prototype algorithms, analyze networks, and improve engineering productivity while maintaining technical review and validation
- Experience developing, deploying, or governing AI and machine-learning technologies in telecommunications or other complex, high-availability environments
- Customer-facing experience relating to network consultancy services or similar
- Hands-on experience with Python or comparable analytical programming tools
Benefits
- Discretionary incentive bonus eligibility for non-sales employees
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- DCPP (Canada) with company matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Vacation time
- Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence
- Development opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements
- Support for employee growth and well-being
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