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Principal Product Manager (communications and media platforms)

i-Link Solutions · Indianapolis, IN · 1 wk ago
WritingFull-time

About the role

The Principal Product Manager, Media Solutions, will lead the strategy, development, and delivery of company Cloud Media Solutions, focusing on modern, cloud-native, API-first communications across web, desktop, and mobile-first experiences. This role combines individual contribution with team leadership, partnering closely with business leaders, customers, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the company Cloud Media Solutions roadmap, with a focus on modern telephony, real-time media, and AI-driven voice use cases
  • Lead cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, sales, support, IT, finance, and legal teams
  • Translate evolving market needs—especially around AI voice, automation, and real-time communications—into scalable, API-driven product requirements
  • Develop and deliver sales enablement materials and training to support go-to-market success
  • Support commercial and contractual initiatives with partners and customers
  • Identify and drive new business models and revenue opportunities, particularly around programmable communications, APIs, and AI-powered voice services
  • Lead the evolution of modern telephony platforms, ensuring best-in-class performance in VoIP, WebRTC, and real-time media delivery
  • Drive deep expertise in SIP signaling, SIP trunking, and carrier interoperability, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and global reach
  • Own the strategy for high-quality audio delivery, including low-latency media pipelines, jitter control, packet loss mitigation, codecs, and audio optimization critical for AI voice bots and virtual agents
  • Champion API-first platform design, enabling developers and partners to easily build, extend, and integrate voice and media capabilities
  • Advocate for and deliver mobile-first communication experiences, ensuring consistent, high-quality media across devices and networks
  • Establish instrumentation and analytics to capture detailed customer usage and media quality metrics (e.g., MOS, latency, jitter)
  • Leverage usage and performance insights to design and optimize usage-based billing and monetization models
  • Enable customer transparency through in-app and API-based access to usage, performance, and billing data
  • Define and promote modern consumption models, packaging, and pricing tiers for company Cloud Media Solutions, including AI-driven voice services
  • Ensure seamless integration with contact center (CCaaS), unified communications, and broader enterprise ecosystems
  • Drive monetization strategies for APIs, developer platforms, and AI-powered media capabilities
  • Partner with marketing and sales to deliver tools and strategies that support API-led, platform-driven, and AI-centric go-to-market motions
  • Develop feature-level pricing strategies aligned with market dynamics and company margin objectives
  • Ensure product offerings are cohesive, differentiated, and clearly communicate the value of high-quality voice and media capabilities
  • Support product management in revenue forecasting and financial modeling at the feature level.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in cloud-based solutions, with a strong background in product management for communications and media platforms
  • 8+ years of experience driving go-to-market strategy with customers, partners, and developers
  • Deep expertise in modern telephony, VoIP architectures, and SIP-based communications
  • Proven experience delivering high-quality, real-time audio and media solutions, ideally supporting AI voice bots, virtual agents, or conversational platforms
  • Strong experience with API-first platforms, developer ecosystems, and programmable communications
  • Experience delivering customer experience solutions (e.g., IVR, Contact Center, UCC, QM, CRM)
  • Familiarity with CCaaS, UCaaS, CRM, and Media Solutions platforms
  • Proven ability to prioritize effectively and deliver in fast-paced, complex environments
  • Demonstrated success leading high-performing, cross-functional teams
  • Strong ability to influence and guide cross-functional stakeholders
  • Bachelor's degree required

Desirable Skills

  • Experience with AI-driven voice technologies, including speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), conversational AI, and virtual agents
  • Deep understanding of audio quality metrics and optimization techniques (e.g., MOS scoring, latency reduction, jitter buffering, codec selection)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience building or scaling developer platforms, SDKs, and API ecosystems

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