Strategic Product Manager

Ericsson AB

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As a Strategic Product Manager (SPM) leading a virtual team of engineering unit responsible for charging and billing platform, service delivery units performing near product services, offerings’ release managers, sourcing and supply personnels with thought leadership to handle Ericsson’s charging and billing offerings with overall platform strategy to their end-of-life.

The ambition is to exceed expectations from the market and maximizing profitability through best-in-class total cost of ownership (TCO), considering dependencies and prioritizations within Ericsson and Ericsson’s suppliers. The role will report directly into the Head of Offering Area (OA) Monetization, Solution Area Business & Operations Support Systems (SA BOS) unit BOS portfolio.

What you will do:

• Effectively build, lead and develop platform strategies that manages the OA Charging and Billing platform with full PLCM activities of the Ericsson Monetisation portfolio, related products, including existing Ericsson Charging, Ericsson Billing and Charging and Billing Evolved.
• Analyse market and competitive conditions, laying out a differentiated products’ platform vision that delivers strong value to both existing customers and new customers with best total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Lead the platform certification activities, which involves interaction with various platform vendors to provide necessary infrastructures suitable to portfolio and also create plans with engineering/services team such that products have defined Go-To-Market plans.
• Lead responsibility for development prioritization that maximizes the ROI of the investments on various platform related activities such as 3PPs (commercial or opensource) selection, 3PPs LCMs, non-functional characteristics etc.
• Communicate business value clearly to sales teams and engage customers through product overviews, thought leadership, roadmap planning, and requirements gathering.
• Define product packaging and pricing to ensure profitability and drive marketing activities including demos, sales tools, case studies, and analyst briefings.

Ensure product sales and delivery readiness and regional enablement.

The skills you bring:

• Strong understanding of microservices, containers (e.g., Docker), orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and service meshes. Covering cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, policy enforcement, and cost optimization.
• Technical and strategic experience with major Hyper Scale Providers AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including pricing models, scalability options, and managed services.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary), and deployment automation approaches including GitOps.
• Deep understanding of logging, tracing, and metrics. Experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry and OpenSearch.
• Understanding of IAM, data encryption, vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance.
• Solid understanding of underlying infrastructure components — including compute resource allocation and scaling, persistent and ephemeral storage models, and network topology and connectivity (e.g., VPCs, load balancers, peering).
• Experience from Ericsson.

Other business skills:

• Balance technical debt, scalability, and time-to-market with a compelling long-term platform vision aligned with business objectives and engineering needs.
• Translate complex platform concepts to non-technical stakeholders and lead effectively in complex business and technical environments.
• Strong business understanding towards the ownership of Profit & Loss responsibility and clear strategy for Charging and Billing markets including BSS and OSS solutions.
• Strong interpersonal skills to create a “one team” approach across separate operating units both internally within the unit and to supporting markets. Building and driving the market areas for common goals and positive results during presales, sales, delivery and support phases.
• Shape a creative environment where status quo is always challenged, leading with curiosity and optimism, stimulating innovation with a genuine interest in developing people and build and retain competitive competence & diverse talent. Secure talent with high focus on teamwork built on inclusion, different perspectives and strong cross unit collaboration for a stronger leadership.
• Ability to articulate the value proposition and engage in relevant technical-commercial discussions with customers to secure profitable business.

Provide clear direction, sets appropriate standards of behaviour and act accordingly as a role model that empowers our values.

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