Product Marketing Manager, Network Automation

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

**The team you'll be part of**

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia’s Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

Nokia's IP Networks business division includes IP routing, network automation and analytics technologies and related services sold to our communication service provider customers as well as adjacent markets including webscale companies and enterprises. Our comprehensive wide area networking and data center networking solutions enable our customers to build and operate automated, secure, and high-performance networks at massive scale - helping to interconnect people and things from any broadband access modality to - and among - edge clouds, central clouds, the Internet, and other services and data centers.

This role is as a key member of the IP portfolio marketing team supporting the Network Automation business unit in IP Networks.

**What you will learn and contribute to**

As product marketing manager for IP network automation, you will be responsible for positioning, messaging and go-to-market strategies for Nokia’s IP network automation portfolio. You will work closely with product management, the regional business centers and campaign strategy teams to develop compelling messaging and content and launch new features and solutions to market.

Key areas of responsibility include:

- Develop product value propositions and positioning that clearly articulate our offers and differentiate us from the competition
- Work with the IPO marketing program management team to develop and deliver targeted marketing campaigns and launches
- Provide support to the sales teams and regional business center teams with marketing tools to help their sales efforts, sales training to keep them up to date on the latest product and solution developments, and direct customer support as required
- Support external communications with customers, partners, industry analysts and media to represent the portfolio of products and solutions. Support the promotion of our solutions at external industry events and conferences.
- Support ‘getting the word out’ through active engagement on social media, and ensuring our products and solutions are visible at the right trade shows and industry conferences

**Your skills and experience**

You have:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years experience in network management and automation.
- Ability to develop product/solution messaging and positioning that effectively communicates our value proposition, implementation approach & competitive differentiation to different audiences
- Excellent communications skills are essential including the ability to write clear and concise papers and articles that can effectively influence executives as well as technical decision makers and the ability to build and deliver clear and compelling presentations in PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of cloud-native, virtualization and container based networking approaches and their management and integration with OSS and cloud management tools and products (eg Openstack, Kubernetes, RedHat)
- Technical knowledge of IP/MPLS networking and network automation technologies (e.g. BGP, PCEP, MPLS, Segment Routing, EVPN, model-driven management, Open APIs)
- Knowledge of the network management and automation vendor landscape
- Travel
- Ability to travel internationally once or twice a year

**What we offer**

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

**Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer**

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

- One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
- Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
- LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

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