Source description
About the role
Product Manager – SD-Branch (NaaS Portfolio)
Location: Gurgaon, India
Reports to: VP Product, NaaS
Role
overview
You will own the
-
strategy, roadmap and lifecycle of our SD-Branch portfolio: the converged set of services that make an enterprise branch site connect, run and stay secure. Your job is to turn a collection of vendor-dependent, project-delivered solutions into repeatable products that can be sold, ordered, provisioned and supported at scale.
-
The ideal candidate combines strong enterprise networking knowledge with product management expertise and can translate market opportunities and customer needs into differentiated products that deliver business growth and customer value.
-
Key responsibilities
-
Solution ownership
-
You own and evolve the branch service portfolio, spanning SDWAN and its integration with underway, managed LAN, branch security and assurance & observability.
-
Product Strategy
-
· Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for SD-Branch services.
-
Identify market opportunities, customer needs, and competitive positioning.
-
Develop business cases and investment proposals for new capabilities and enhancements.
-
Own the product lifecycle from concept through launch and ongoing optimization.
-
Product Development
-
· Gather and prioritize requirements from customers, sales, engineering, operations, and partners.
-
Create product requirements, service definitions, and feature roadmaps.
-
Work with technology and delivery teams to develop and launch new capabilities.
-
Ensure products are scalable, commercially viable, and operationally efficient.
Qualifications
-
Required
-
7+ years in product management, solution management or technical product roles, with at least 3 in enterprise networking.
-
Working depth in SD-WAN and branch networking, you can hold your own in an architecture review, and you know the practical difference between what a vendor datasheet claims and what survives contact with a 400-site rollout.
-
Demonstrated ownership of a product through a full lifecycle: definition, launch, iteration, and either scale or sunset.
-
Commercial fluency: you can build a business case, defend a price point, and explain a margin structure.
-
Strongly preferred
-
Experience productising services that were previously delivered as projects.
-
Familiarity with major branch vendor ecosystems (e.g. Cisco/Meraki, Fortinet)
-
How you work
-
You start from the customer problem, not the vendor roadmap.
-
You write things down. Clearly.
You are comfortable
being the person who says the uncomfortable true thing in the room.
More at Airtel