Technical Product Manager - Telecom Transport Network

Salary: $114,400 - 124,800 per year Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, or a related product leadership role in enterprise software and/or telecom platforms, including ownership of product strategy, roadmaps, and priorities.
• Strong telecom network expertise, particularly in Network Inventory, Service Provisioning, Transport and Backhaul; experience with Order Management and Service Activation is preferred.
• Understanding of transport network concepts and modeling across L0/L1/L2/L3, data centers, NFV/SDN, network topology, resources, services, and their relationships and lifecycles.
• Technical fluency in enterprise architectures, including microservices, REST APIs, event-driven systems, cloud platforms, containers, and relational databases, with the ability to engage effectively with Engineering.
• Familiarity with Java, Kafka, and Kubernetes/Docker is a plus.
• Experience defining functional and non-functional product requirements for scalability, performance, availability, resiliency, security, IAM, auditing, data quality, and data migration.
• Ability to collaborate with architecture and engineering teams and make product decisions that balance customer value, business outcomes, risk, cost, and feasibility.
• Strong customer-facing, stakeholder management, communication, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills, including the ability to influence across technical, business, and customer organizations.
• Experience applying AI/ML, intelligent automation, or advanced analytics to enterprise products and operational workflows is a plus.

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and feature priorities for a telecom Transport Network Inventory and Service Provisioning product.
• Assess customer needs, market and telecom trends, competitors, and business objectives, translating findings into product opportunities and priorities.
• Define and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements, including scalability, resilience, security, performance, and operability.
• Develop and manage capabilities, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, data requirements, and integrations in line with product strategy and customer outcomes.
• Guide capabilities across Network Inventory, Service Provisioning, Order Management, Service Activation, and Network Configuration, emphasizing accurate network and resource models, lifecycle management, and end-to-end visibility.
• Work with Architecture and Engineering to evaluate technical feasibility, solution options, trade-offs, and requirements for APIs, data models, integrations, migration, containerized deployments, access control, auditing, observability, and platform capabilities.
• Ensure architectural direction and technical investments advance customer needs, business value, scalability, product quality, and long-term strategy.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to deliver roadmap capabilities aligned with customer outcomes and business goals.
• Serve as the product liaison among customers, business stakeholders, Architecture, Engineering, QA, Operations, and telecom domain teams, aligning them on goals, priorities, and outcomes.
• Balance customer value, business impact, technical debt, modernization, risks, dependencies, and engineering capacity when prioritizing investments.
• Engage customers and stakeholders to understand pain points, workflows, and operational challenges, validate concepts, and shape roadmap priorities.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, bringing a product perspective to technical decisions and their implications for customer value, roadmap, cost, and time to market.
• Establish and track KPIs for adoption, business value, product quality, performance, reliability, and operational outcomes.
• Pursue continuous improvement through automation, AI-enabled capabilities, platform modernization, and process optimization where they deliver measurable value.

• AI
• Cloud
• Docker
• IAM
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Network
• Product Manager
• REST
• Security
• microservices

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We are seeking an experienced Technical Product Manager to lead the strategy and evolution of a telecom network inventory and service provisioning product, partnering with Architecture and Engineering to deliver secure, resilient, high-performance capabilities across transport, backhaul, and core networks. The pay range is $55–$60 per hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k); an HSA; disability and life insurance; paid sick leave where required by law; supplemental insurance options; identity theft protection; pet insurance; wellness programs; an employee assistance program; and career development opportunities. Benefit eligibility and terms may vary by employment status, tenure, and work location, and plans may change in accordance with applicable law. We are Cynet Systems Inc., a technology staffing and workforce solutions company founded in 2010 and headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area. We serve Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and enterprise organizations across the United States and Canada, providing talent solutions in IT, engineering, life sciences, clinical, and professional staffing. As a certified Minority Business Enterprise, we support organizations in building strong teams and professionals in growing their careers. Our certifications include ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II.

last updated 40 week of 2026