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Telephony is essential to many of the highest-value voice AI use cases running today: call centers, customer support, healthcare triage, outbound sales, appointment scheduling. A large share of our growth comes from enterprises putting agents on the phone at massive volume, and every one of those calls runs through this product.\nYou'll shape the direction and roadmap for Telephony alongside the engineering leaders who build it, across both sides of the product. On one side is SIP trunking, where enterprises bring the carriers and phone systems they already have and everything has to interoperate, stay up, and sound good. On the other is LiveKit Phone Numbers, our native offering, where we own the carrier relationships and hand a developer a working number in a couple of clicks. Going native lets us control the whole path a call takes, which means fewer hops, better audio, and quality we can actually tune. 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SIP has as many interpretations as there are vendors. Decide what compatibility we take on, and when, so connecting an existing carrier, PBX, or contact center platform is straightforward instead of a project.\n\nTake native telephony global. Extend LiveKit Phone Numbers well beyond its US starting point, with the country coverage and regulatory footing to make buying a number from us the obvious choice.\n\nGet deep with customers and data. Understand how teams actually run phone-based agents in production, from the first trunk they configure to the calls that go wrong, and let that shape priorities.\n\nOwn the economics. Telephony is already a meaningful business with real carrier costs behind it. Own pricing, packaging, and margin as volume grows and our footprint expands.\n\nWho You Are\n8+ years in product management, at a senior or staff level, with substantial experience managing a developer-facing products in particular.\n\nTechnical depth. 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You write clearly, present well, and can move between a board-level strategy conversation and a detailed technical discussion with an engineering lead.\n\nComfort with ambiguity. We're a small product team at a fast-growing company. 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