Our Vision

 

Oracle Communications enables service providers and enterprises to rapidly deliver and monetize digital lifestyle services, build world-class customer experiences, and streamline operations. As the leading provider of charging, billing and revenue management solutions for the global communications, media and cloud markets, Oracle is committed to helping communication service providers transform to meet the key business objectives of maximizing customer value, enhancing business agility, and maximizing profitability.

 

Opportunity Summary

 

The primary purpose of this role will be to lead Oracles cloud native charging product roadmap. The role involves working closely with Oracle’s wider Revenue Management teams, key strategic customers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Team (OCI) to understand market and business needs, analyse potential product opportunities, and gather customer specific technical requirements. The product owner will function as the primary focal point for customers for any roadmap related and strategic initiative discussions.

 

This opportunity requires the successful candidate to:

 

• Translate product requirements into technical specifications, ensuring mutual understanding and minimizing time to market, with experience in delivering high quality releases.
• Interact successfully Product, Technology and Operations support staff to meet the needs of our customers.
• Curiosity to develop a long-term vision for Telecommunications Charging and 5G Monetization.
• Validate technical delivery and ensure that delivered functionality complies with the product requirements and is fit-for-purpose.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, identifying market potential, investigating the adaption of new technologies and is both dynamic and flexible.
• Display the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs, priorities, and timelines. Past experience working on Telco BSS is important, and more specifically a solid understanding of Telco revenue management (including charging and billing systems and processes) is ideal.
• Work closely with our Commerical, Sales, R&D & Delivery teams to foster growth and success in the market.

 

 

Key activities and responsibilities:

 

• Manage customer relationships regarding alignment of solution needs with product roadmap deliverables from the product management perspective with little direct supervision.
• Work with the field teams, and customers, to define customer-specific product requirements.
• Negotiate and communicate product roadmap additions and their unique differentiators to internal groups and outside partners/customers.
• Create, manage and present roadmaps.
• Ensure the right blend of product capabilities to maximize the product impact in the marketplace.
• Work with product marketing and sales to create product positioning, content, collateral and tools.
• Create high quality product literature and presentations independently to support communication of new strategic product initiatives.
• Present material to external audiences and chair workshops to solicit feedback of new features.
• Hands on approach to understanding, configuring and testing software.

 

Skills & Experience:

 

• A minimum of 8 years in product management or technical pre-sales roles in Telecommunications domain (ideally Charging and Billing related).
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role.
• 3GPP, CNCF and TM Forum Standards desired.
• Previous architecture experience – specifically with telecoms software systems, and ideally with distributed and cloud-native applications at scale.
• Experience in working in projects involving core network integration, Charging, Billing or CRM.
• Commercial and technical awareness of the Charging, Billing & Quote to Cash marketplaces.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills – must be a good “translator”, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms, and equally represent business needs to technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with remote and highly distributed teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or IT/Telecommunications related.
• A hands-on collaborative style of working.
• Outstanding verbal, written and creative advertising communications skills a must.
• Fluent spoken and written English.

Lead a team that acts as the central resource and driving force for the design, process, manufacturing, test, quality and marketing of product(s) as they move from conception to distribution. Organize interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget.

As a member of the product development division, you will specify, design and implement major changes to existing software architecture. Define project needs. Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans. Review integration and regression plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering to ensure consistency, testability and portability across products in general.

Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. Recommends and justifies major changes to existing products/services/processes. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).