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Today, more than 25 service providers across 20 countries serving over 500 million subscribers are driving revenue growth and increasing customer loyalty with Defne’s solutions and services. Expertise on IN, IVR, and messaging combined with a wealth of skilled resources, allows Defne to provide reliable and scalable solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing customer infrastructure.

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We put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We hire people who can push boundaries and take risks that will benefit our customers as necessary. We offer a challenging work environment that offers our employees the opportunities to grow both individually and professionally.

 

At Defne, you will be working with some of the best leaders in the business, to deliver solutions and services that meet our customers’ demands and enhance the communications life-styles of subscribers globally.

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Open Positions

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Telco Product Manager

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Job Description

 

At Defne, we’re proud to offer innovative products that meet the needs of our customers. To help us continue to grow our offerings, we’re in search of an experienced product manager to collaborate with our development and business teams.

 

As an ideal candidate, you will have a keen eye for gaps in consumer product offerings and the innovative mindset to fill them.

 

Objectives 

• Drive the product and business-planning process across cross-functional teams of the company

• Analyze consumer needs, current market trends

• Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation

• Analyze product requirements and develop appropriate programs to ensure they’re successful achieved

• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments

• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate to-market plans

 

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, testing, and product launch

• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by engineering teams

• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements.

• Design, and translate business requirements into a form that includes low-level process flows of microservices.

• Collaborate closely with development, marketing, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products and balance of resources to ensure success for the entire organization

• Managing the projects that include the candidate’s product portfolio.

• Respond to RFx's and update product strategy according to the information gathered from RFx's.

• Actively engage in the testing of the developed modules.

 

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Telco Engineering

• Strong analytical skills 

• Strong experience in the Telecommunication industry (IVR, Mass Notification, Messaging, Roaming etc.)

• Having past programming experience is preferable

• Familiarity with telco standards and protocols (SIP, RTP, SIGTRAN, Diameter, SMPP, SS7, ISUP etc.)

• Familiarity with Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch

• Familiarity with Cloud Native Architecture and Containerization

• Strong experience in a dynamic product management role

• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle

• Highly effective cross-functional team management

• Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills

   

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