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With a truly global reach, we enable businesses to create engaging customer experiences while integrating fraud protection across the entire lifecycle.\nOur portfolio covers global voice, messaging and data connectivity, alongside 5G and IoT solutions. It also includes digital identity, verification and CPaaS platforms for personalised, omnichannel engagement. Through these capabilities, we help businesses and communities stay connected, secure and ready to grow. Today, we reach more than 5 billion subscribers, secure over 180 billion transactions every year, and connect more than 1,000 destinations worldwide - delivering on our commitment to connect, protect and engage everywhere.\n\nKey highlights\nPowering more than 13 billion digital communications every month\nSupporting over 3,500 active customers through a presence in 50+ global offices across 100+ countries\nManaging 50% of global roaming data traffic and connecting 150 million IoT devices\nDriving innovation in 5G, private networks and IoT, reinforcing our position in next-generation communications\n\nProduct Director, Programmable Voice\n Location: Brussels, Belgium/ Global\nReports to: VP Programmable Voice, Messaging, Network API\nScope: Global - Proximus Global L4 Programmable Voice AI solution\nThis role is based in Brussels and offered on a permanent contract. We follow a hybrid working model, with an expectation to be present in the Brussels office 2 to 3 days per week. Applicants must have the legal right to work in Belgium.\nJob Summary\n\nThe Product Director, Programmable Voice is responsible for defining, building and scaling Proximus Global’s L4 Programmable Voice solution: an abstracted, ready-to-consume application layer built on BICS Cloud Communications carrier voice assets, Konera Network APIs and Telesign identity and fraud signals.\nThe role targets the global SMB, mid-market and voice-AI startup segments and enterprises - customers typically in the €10-100k ARR range - who want the capabilities large API platforms offer but cannot justify building and operating lower-level voice products themselves. It closes a structural gap in the portfolio: today\nProximus Global has no SMB voice offering in any market, while external CPaaS players capture the higher-margin application layer on top of our own wholesale assets.\nThis role owns the end-to-end product journey - from proposition definition through market launch and international scaling - leading a team of product managers and working cross-functionally across BICS, Konera and Telesign. The successful candidate will build the partner ecosystem and commercial model that position Proximus Global as a trusted, AI-ready challenger to Twilio, Bandwidth and Vonage in selected use cases and priority regions.\nKey Responsibilities\n\nTeam Leadership\nLead, mentor and develop a team of product managers across discovery, launch and scale-up stages \nBalance strategic guidance with hands-on support to bring a greenfield product to market at the pace of the category \nBuild a product culture rooted in accountability, customer evidence, speed and AI-assisted ways of working\nStrategy & Vision\nOwn and evolve the Programmable Voice strategy, positioning the offering as the trusted L4 challenger to established global API platforms in selected use cases and priority regions \nMaintain a clear, phased roadmap: near term - number masking, branded calling and the AI voice agent on a programmable call-control engine, real-time media streaming and self-serve distribution; mid term - transcription, translation and language handling, notifications, flash calling, voicemail, recording, AI-capable IVR, CRM/workflow connectors and agentic exposure; long term - voice embedded natively into major LLM runtimes and agent frameworks \nEnforce scope discipline against the agreed exclusions: no direct large-enterprise motion (retained by BICS Cloud Communications), no race to the cheapest per-minute pipe, no in-house foundation voice models, and one global product with regional adapters rather than parallel codebases \nIdentify market opportunities, customer needs and competitive positioning across Europe, North America, MEA, LATAM and Asia-Pacific\nProduct & Project Management\nOwn the full product lifecycle, from ideation through launch to scaling, on a global footprint from day one \nDefine and execute product plans, timelines and budgets, and steer build-versus-buy and platform architecture decisions for the greenfield OSS/BSS stack \nEnsure timely delivery within scope and quality expectations, including clean integration into BICS Cloud Communications, Konera and Telesign\nCommercial & Monetisation\nDefine and own the usage-based commercial model - per minute for voice and the AI voice agent, per number for DID, per verified call for branded calling - packaged into SMB-friendly plans with sensible add-ons rather than enterprise-only custom pricing \nBuild and defend the business case against a serviceable market of roughly $3.4B in 2026 growing to $6.2B by 2030, and against agreed run-rate ambitions \nManage internal transfer pricing with BICS, Konera and Telesign on an arm’s-length basis within the agreed group envelope \nEvolve pricing over time from pure per-minute charging toward bundled platform and subscription models\nGo-to-Market & Distribution\nOwn a self-serve, product-led motion: portal and dashboard, SDK and ADK, enabling an SMB anywhere in the world to operate the product without a dedicated implementation programme \nSequence commercial launch by region - Europe and North America first, with Latin America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific following as regulatory and identity-signal models mature \nRecruit lead customers and design partners among voice-AI startups, including the Y Combinator conversational-AI cohort, and position the platform explicitly around their needs \nEnsure the proposition remains uniform globally: the same product, the same SDK, the same trust signals, wherever the customer operates\nEcosystem & Partnerships\nBuild and manage the partner ecosystem: Cognigy for conversational-AI orchestration, ElevenLabs for natural agent voice, Hiya and regional attestation partners (including STIR/SHAKEN in North America) for branded calling, and Telesign for fraud and identity scoring \nEngage major LLM providers and agent-framework owners early to shape the voice APIs, media streaming, identity signals, routing features and compliance support that AI-agent developers need \nPreserve strategic optionality - avoid deep dependence on any single hyperscaler voice stack and avoid exclusive lock-in to any one AI vendor\nCross-functional Collaboration\nDrive alignment with BICS Cloud Communications on SIP trunking, numbering and branded calling, maximising reuse of existing capability and avoiding duplicate development \nPartner with Konera on network identity, verified caller, reachability and network trust signals exposed through the Programmable Voice layer \nCollaborate closely with CTO and Engineering teams (API/SDK engineers, network architects, DevOps) and with GTM, Marketing, Legal and Finance to ensure seamless execution and clear expectation setting\nStakeholder Engagement\nBuild strong relationships with internal stakeholders across Proximus Global entities and with external partners, customers and regulators \nAct as a key point of contact for strategic collaborations and ecosystem developmentRepresent Programmable Voice in executive forums and ensure alignment with Proximus Global Vision 2030 and the wider portfolio strategy\n\nInnovation & Technology Leadership\nStay ahead of category trends: branded calling as a network-level trust layer, the shift from agent assist to fully agentic voice, the intensifying latency race, and the buyer shift from pipes to outcomes \nEmbed AI into both the product offering and day-to-day product management and delivery practice, including AI-assisted development and modern API-gateway tooling \nExplore adjacent, carrier-unique capabilities such as voice analytics, number and line intelligence, and the broader interpretation of voice as a trust signal\nPerformance Management\nDefine and track KPIs across activation, time-to-first-call, self-serve conversion, ARR per customer, usage, margin, retention and team performance \nMonitor performance of products and initiatives and identify opportunities for optimisation \nReport progress, risks and trade-offs transparently to leadership\nRisk & Compliance Ownership\nManage the principal delivery risks: resourcing a credible global L4 build, keeping pace with AI-assisted development models, and the operational readiness of underlying onboarding and provisioning processes \nConfirm and track country-level regulatory and compliance requirements for AI voice, call recording, consent and any voice analytics or biometric use cases, and reflect them in launch sequencing, partner selection and go-to-market readiness\nResource Management\nManage budget, staffing and technology resources effectively \nEnsure teams are equipped with the tools, processes and support needed to succeed\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related field \nMaster’s degree preferred \nProven product leadership experience in CPaaS, UCaaS/CCaaS, voice or API platform businesses, ideally within telecommunications \nTrack record of taking products from zero to one in innovation, incubation or greenfield environments, and scaling 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