Product Manager - UK
About the Position:
This is an incredible opportunity to shape the future of how networks are built and managed. We want to talk to you if you are passionate about working with cutting-edge technologies and working on a high-energy team.
Juniper is seeking a passionate and highly motivated individual to work with Sales and Partners to drive overall Juniper Apstra product and solution adoption across all customer segments. This individual will be part of Juniper's Apstra Product Management organization.
Traits you should have:
* Vision: Obsess over details to ensure customers find the product usable and valuable. Define the strategic direction of the product with knowledge acquired from research, market, competitors, and customers. Be a customer advocate relate with the problem they have that you're trying to solve.
* Creative & Visual Thinker: Make boring and technical concepts compelling and easily understandable using schematics, diagrams, etc. Must be a strong team player, not afraid to present new, creative ideas.
* Versatility: Have a blend of business and technical skills. Quickly adapts to changing requirements while communicating impacts and negotiating the next steps. Helps to implement change and thrives on cross-functional collaboration with various teams.
* Drive: "Roll up sleeves and do what it takes" attitude. Continuously re-thinking, challenging, and innovating. Self-motivated and comfortable working in a distributed workforce.
* Personable & Outgoing: Comfortable interacting directly with customers with the ability to maintain a pleasant demeanor during early-stage product evaluation, testing, and trials.
The candidate must be execution-oriented, have a builder mentality, and possess the personal drive to build a growth business within a newly created growth organization.
What you will be doing:
This is a technical role in the Juniper Networks CPO Solutions Apstra Team. You will be a critical partner to cross-functional business teams, sales teams, customers, and R&D engineering teams. You will work to develop best practices, presentations, tools, demonstrations, engage in complex customer design/implementations, drive the evolution of the Apstra product portfolio, and target customer adoption.
· Define Data Center automation solutions for simplifying Day0/Day1/Day2 network operations
· Work closely with the various sales teams to manage requirements and drive commitments within engineering organizations
· Contribute to creating and delivering global launches and sales activation.
· Create collateral and deliver content concisely and without jargon in many forms, including live presentations, technical reports, presentation slides, podcasts, and other media formats.
· Build, deliver, and maintain technical customer and SE level presentations.
· Perform market and competitive assessment
Basic Qualifications:
· Typically requires 10-15 years of related experience in technical pre-sales, post-sales, or product management roles (Systems Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Network Engineer, Product Manager, Technical Marketing, etc.).
· Must have extensive knowledge and experience with data center solution design, implementation, and operations.
· Strong influencing skills and the ability to present at industry events, not "limited" to Juniper technology; ability to compare our solutions with other industry options
· Proficiency in two or more network vendor solutions: Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Cumulus, SONiC, or another disaggregated network OS
· Strong understanding and experience with the following technologies: BGP, VXLAN, and EVPN
· Familiar with the following concepts: open networking, containers, and related technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Bonus Skills:
· Scripting with Ansible, Salt, Python
· VMware product suite (vRNI, NSX, NSX-T, vSphere, etc)
· Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD Pipelines
· Experience in cloud security (GCP, AWS), network security, or application security
· Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: ACI, DCNM, CloudVision, or equivalent product
Benefits:
· Remote Work – Yes
We offer a competitive pay range compared to our peers in the industry. Top of the line health insurance, attractive bonus, and stock options are the added benefits for this role. We have a very flexible work from home and vacation policy to suit your needs. On top of all of it, we pride most in offering you a culture and work environment driven by team-first, work-life balance, and mutual trust values to help you grow professionally and personally in your career. Providing a progressive and open-minded workplace with a free-flowing exchange of ideas is what we strive for. Juniper is an equal opportunity employer, offering opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without any discrimination.
ABOUT JUNIPER NETWORKS
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Our products and technology run the world's largest and most demanding networks today, enabling service providers, enterprises, and governments to create value and accelerate business success. Everyday our 9,000+ colleagues come together across 46 countries to realize our company vision - Connect Everything, Empower Everyone. We are innovating in ways that empower our customers, our partners and ultimately, everyone, in a connected world. These customers include the top 130 global service providers, 96 of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of public sector organizations.
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