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This is a high-visibility role sitting at the intersection of network operations intelligence, multi-agent AI orchestration, and operator outcome delivery - working closely with solution architects, R&D, platform engineering, and global field teams.\nThis role reports to the Director of AIOps Solution Architecture (London/global) and operates as the product authority for the India-aligned product development function.\nWhat You Will Own\nProduct Strategy & Roadmap\nDefine and maintain the product backlog and 2-quarter rolling roadmap for AIOps Intelligence and Vertical Solutions capabilities across RAN, Core, and Transport domains\nTranslate operator pain points (MTTR reduction, NOC automation, root cause analysis, proactive anomaly detection) into structured product requirements - PRDs, PDDs, and user stories - with clear acceptance criteria and operator-outcome metrics\nLead product discovery with global field teams and customers to validate feature hypotheses before R&D commitment\nDrive feature prioritisation using value-vs-effort frameworks anchored to operator outcomes, not internal capability milestones\nAgentic AI & AI/ML Product Definition\nOwn the product definition for Agentic AI capabilities: multi-agent orchestration workflows, autonomous remediation pipelines, LLM-assisted root cause analysis, and GenAI interfaces for network operations\nDefine human-in-the-loop validation requirements, guardrails, and trust frameworks for autonomous AI features - particularly in safety-critical network operations contexts\nPartner with R&D and data science teams to define model evaluation criteria, KPIs, and feedback loops for deployed ML models (anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, traffic forecasting)\nMaintain awareness of emerging frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, Model Context Protocol) and assess applicability to platform capabilities\nPDD / PRD Authoring & Artifact Quality\nProduce operator-grade Product Definition Documents (PDDs) and Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) as primary artifacts, anchoring each to a one-year product goal and a release outcome map\nEnsure full backlog traceability from PRD to sprint-level user story; drive zero-gap traceability as a team standard\nChampion agentic tooling (e.g., Claude Code, AI-assisted pipelines) as a force multiplier for artifact velocity - with mandatory human validation before any commit\nStakeholder & Cross-Functional Alignment\nAct as the primary product interface between India-based R&D engineering and global solution architecture, PLM, and field teams\nRun structured sprint reviews, backlog refinement sessions, and roadmap alignment meetings with a globally distributed team\nCommunicate product decisions, trade-offs, and release outcomes clearly to senior technical and commercial stakeholders\nProvide market intelligence inputs on Indian operator dynamics (Jio, Airtel, Vi, BSNL/BBNL) to inform localisation and vertical solution priority\nGo-to-Market Support\nAuthor customer-facing product briefs, capability comparisons, and battlecard inputs for AIOps and Agentic AI features\nSupport pre-sales and solution architecture teams with product positioning for Indian operator bids and RFP responses\nTrack competitive landscape across AIOps vendors (Dynatrace, Datadog, IBM Instana, NETSCOUT) and synthesise inputs into roadmap decisions\nWhat You Bring\nExperience\n7-12 years of total experience, with a minimum of 4 years in product management (PO or PM) in a B2B technology or telecom domain\nDemonstrable ownership of AI/ML-powered products from inception to GA release - not just feature contribution\nExperience working within a global product organisation with distributed engineering and solution architecture stakeholders\nPrior exposure to telecom operations environments - NOC, OSS, network analytics, or network management - strongly preferred; prior operator-side experience (Jio, Airtel, Vi, Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE, Amdocs, NetCracker) is a differentiator\nTechnical Literacy (Required)\nWorking knowledge of ML operations concepts: model training pipelines, inference, evaluation metrics, data labelling, and drift monitoring\nAbility to read and critique API specifications, data schemas, and system architecture diagrams - not required to code, but required to engage meaningfully with engineering at a design level\nFamiliarity with AIOps platform capabilities: event correlation, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, automated remediation, topology mapping\nUnderstanding of 5G/LTE network domains at functional level: RAN (gNB, CU/DU split), Core (AMF, SMF, UPF), Transport; sufficient to define domain-specific vertical solutions without requiring constant domain SME support\nAwareness of agentic AI frameworks and LLM orchestration patterns (RAG, tool use, multi-agent coordination)\nTechnical Literacy (Preferred)\nHands-on experience with agentic tooling: Claude Code, LangChain/LangGraph, n8n, or equivalent - even in personal/prototype context\nExposure to telemetry and observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, gNMI/gRPC streaming telemetry\nFamiliarity with cloud-native deployment patterns: Kubernetes, Helm, containerised microservices\nSoft Skills & Ways of Working\nCommunicates with precision: produces artifacts that can be handed to engineering without re-interpretation; does not rely on verbal context to carry written requirements\nOperates with structured autonomy - asks for direction on priorities, not on how to execute\nComfortable managing ambiguity in a maturing product function; can define process where none exists\nStrong stakeholder influence without authority - particularly with senior R&D and architecture counterparts\nIntellectually honest: surfaces blockers and trade-offs proactively; does not manage upward by omission\nQualifications\nDimension\nRequirement\nEducation\nB.E. / B.Tech in Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, or related engineering discipline. 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