Technical Product Manager, Inventory

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking a Technical Product Manager, Inventory is responsible for leading the development and delivery of our inventory platforms. This includes working with cross-functional teams to define requirements, design features, and implement solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of software, software development, product management, big data management, and API integrations.

Responsibilities:

• Overall software/systems responsibilities spans systems used for fiber network inventory management, quality of data in those systems, and integrations with the network inventory systems into other systems.

• Define and prioritize business requirements for internal software, 3rd party software and integration between systems in alignment with business goals.

• Work in cross functional teams to define and prioritize data quality issues, being responsible for the overall solution for resolving data issues.

• Provide input on roadmaps and ensure that they aligned with technical constraints.

• Work with network automation teams, service delivery teams, and NOC teams to drive efficient workflows through automation.

• Write engineering analysis and recommendations to stakeholders, then flipping the script and explaining product trade offs to engineers, all the while keeping scale and long term viability in mind with trade offs for faster execution.

• Create technical specifications, scope, and KPIs with the software engineering and product teams to bring a new feature to life.

• Determine metrics and measurements for new products, features, and data quality. Be hands on as needed with the data to demonstrate and define how these metrics are gathered in code.

• Conduct research and prototype solutions.

• Gather feedback from internal stakeholders and external customers and sales to constantly improve customer deliverables, internal automation and customer facing automation.

• Assist with development of testing and deployment plans.

Qualifications:

• Computer Science (or similar) degree, a solid background in both software engineering and data engineering, and naturally gravitate towards driving efficiency through automation.

• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in software engineering, devops, or SRE.

• Minimum of three (3) years of end to end product delivery experience in a technical product manager, lead technical role, or similar role.

• Minimum of three (3) years experience in inventory systems management, logistics management, or any physical infrastructure backed services.

• Working proficiency in Python and SQL.

• Experience working within large, complex data sets in multiple repositories.

• Experience with product requirements gathering, design, and implementation creating software tooling and API.

• Previous work with automating complex processes and systems integrations.

• Experience with Atlassian and agile development methodologies.

• Clear and concise verbal and written communication.

• Forward-thinking, anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur.

• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a cross-functional team.

• Self starter who can work autonomous and is also comfortable leading through influence.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and organize effectively and work under pressure deadlines.

Preferred Experience:

• Minimum of two (2) years creating or working with ML based solutions for data prediction.

• Experience extracting complex and variable data from PDFs.

• Experience working with large data sets containing physical world values.

Estimated Base Salary Range: $87,500 - $125,000 USD/annually.

The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.

Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement plans, paid time off.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.