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Product Line Manager

Job in Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois, 61350, USA
Listing for: Ciena Corporation
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
  • Business
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 60000 - 80000 USD Yearly USD 60000.00 80000.00 YEAR
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As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

This is a product manager position on the Interconnects PLM team.
The product manager is expected to work closely with a cross functional team to support the definition, introduction, and life cycle management of Ciena’s Interconnects portfolio including both Optical and Electrical architectures in and around the data center.  The main objective of this position is to be the primary product management interface into Ciena’s technology  this role you will focus on Ciena’s Interconnects product lines covering high speed interconnect technologies that could encompass Co-Packaged and Near-Packaged Optics as well as Cable and on-board interfaces incorporating Retimers and Redrivers.

Experience with Direct detect and Coherent technologies is an asset.

As part of the Interconnects Product Line Management team, you will define the strategy and lead the commercialization efforts of Ciena’s Optical and Electrical interfaces, associated technologies, and in-house components. Your work will ensure these solutions align with the evolving consumption models of leading global customers.

This is an individual contributor position reporting into the Ciena’s Product Line Management organization and offers the opportunity to influence coherent modem business across a broad market consumption models.
** How Will You Contribute:
*** Work in a cross-functional manner across Ciena’s modem and component teams and help define industry best practice of selling modem components as products to customers
* Develop commercialization requirements such as SDK, documentation content, and sales support framework
* Define product strategy and multiyear roadmap for technologies such as CPO, NPO, Advanced optical packaging and Electrical interconnects.
* Define commercial offer and pricing structure that is in line with industry norm
* Develop business cases and get approval for new features or initiatives
* Continuously assess customer needs, technology trends, regulatory environment, and major competitors
* Gather feature requirements from key customers (end customers, product marketing, and sales organization)
* Develop and maintain strategic product roadmap, priorities, and gap analysis
* Partner with marketing teams to develop product positioning and marketing collaterals (e.g., external presentations, data sheets, value propositions, competitive analyses, etc.)
* Work with product line managers and R&D architects in prioritizing features and defining roadmaps.
* Assist sales with coherent modem/components roadmap presentations, collecting customer requirements, assessing modem/components fit to customer needs and preparing product specifications and proposals including responding to customer RFI/RFP for all coherent modem/components related requirements
* Serve as a key interface between engineering and sales/customers.
* Function as a focal point to align design, product line managers, supporting groups, and product marketing towards a common goal.
* This critical, high visibility role blends coherent domain technical expertise, an eye for business, and…
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