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Senior Product Manager, AI Infrastructure and Networking

Verizon · Basking Ridge, NJ · 3 wk ago
Information Technology$128k–$245k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes intro about Verizon, then "What You’ll Be Doing..." which is responsibilities. Then "What We’re Looking For..." which is requirements/qualifications/skills. Then "Where you’ll be working" (schedule/hybrid). Then "Scheduled Weekly Hours 40". Then "Benefits And Compensation" includes benefits and salary ranges. Need to include sections only if real content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: EEO, application instructions, etc. We need headings:

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    for prose. We need to decide which sections to include. We have content: Intro about Verizon (maybe "About the role" or "About Verizon"? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have About the role (intro), Responsibilities (What You’ll Be Doing...), Requirements/Qualifications/Skills (What We’re Looking For...), Benefits (Benefits And Compensation), Pay (salary ranges), Schedule (Where you’ll be working + Scheduled Weekly Hours). Possibly combine Requirements and Qualifications and Skills? Could separate but we need to avoid thin sections. Better to combine into one "Requirements" section that includes qualifications and skills. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details like responsibilities bullet points, requirements bullet points, benefits list, salary ranges, schedule details. We must use

    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for responsibilities we should list each bullet as
    • . For requirements also list each bullet. For benefits list also. We need to use

      for prose paragraphs. We must not include markdown fences. Let's extract content. Intro: "When you join Verizon You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife." That's prose; could be About the role. Responsibilities: Under "What You’ll Be Doing..." then bullet list under "Key Responsibilities". Let's capture each bullet: - Growth Strategy & Execution: Lead the 0-to-1 growth lifecycle to ensure alignment with AI Connect revenue objectives. Drive product-market fit from initial market mapping and target identification through commercial launch and active revenue expansion. - Data-Driven Market Growth: Conduct thorough analysis of the AI infrastructure landscape, including data center construction pipelines, power availability, GPU deployment trends, fiber route economics, and interconnection dynamics. Leverage these insights to optimize the product go-to-market funnel, inform growth strategy, and prioritize high-value segments. - Ecosystem Product Strategy: Define and manage the growth roadmap across hyperscalers, data center and colocation operators, real estate partners, OEMs, and emerging AI infrastructure companies. Identify product white space to build scalable solutions that convert Verizon's fiber footprint, optical services portfolio, and AI-ready facilities into recurring infrastructure revenue. - Growth Modeling & Commercialization: Develop scalable commercial models spanning optical and fiber-based services, such as Wavelength Services (10G/100G/400G+), optical extensions, programmable network fabric, data center interconnection, and AI-ready facility partnerships. Establish pricing constructs, capacity commitments, and route-specific terms optimized for rapid market adoption and platform stickiness. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with Product, Network Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Sales teams to shape offers and deal terms, and to ensure seamless execution from signature through delivery. - Stakeholder Management: Communicate effectively and manage expectations with business sponsors, company executives, external partners, and customers, acting as a credible and technically fluent representative of Verizon AI Connect at the most senior levels. - Performance Measurement: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) — pipeline value, signed contract value, revenue conversion, and partner health — to measure partnership success and inform continuous improvement. - Technology & Market Fluency: Possess a strong understanding of fiber products, services, and network fabric — including optical networking (DWDM), Wavelength Services, optical extensions, low-latency routing, and programmable, API-driven network fabric — along with data center fundamentals (power, cooling, density, interconnection) and the traffic patterns of AI workloads, including east-west requirements for training and data center interconnection and north-south requirements for enterprise inference. Stay ahead of the curve on emerging AI infrastructure trends to keep Verizon's strategy competitive. - Business Strategy: Define partnership business models, pricing strategies, target segments, execution plans, and financial business cases for AI Infrastructure and Networking opportunities. - Content Creation: Develop compelling partner-facing collateral, business cases, and executive presentations for internal and external stakeholders. That's a list. Requirements: Under "What We’re Looking For..." then bullet list: - You'll need to have: * Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience. * Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training. * Six or more years of relevant experience in technology and/or telecommunications. * Demonstrated understanding of the AI infrastructure market, including fiber networks and optical services, data centers, colocation, and interconnection. * Experience originating, structuring, negotiating, and closing large, complex, multi-year commercial or partnership agreements — from inception to signing. * Experience with business models and/or business cases for infrastructure or connectivity services. * Experience with Business-to-Business partnerships, enterprise sales, or corporate development. * Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time. Then "Even better if you have one or more of the following:" list: - An MBA and/or Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. - Experience in a high-growth company or business unit, scaling a new product, partnership program, or revenue stream from early stage to significant scale. - Direct experience in data center development, fiber optic network development, or colocation — on either the operator or buyer side. - Existing senior-level relationships within hyperscale cloud providers, GPU/neocloud platforms, data center developers/operators, colocation providers, real estate/infrastructure investors, or AI infrastructure OEMs. - Working technical fluency in fiber and optical products and services — Wavelength Services, optical extensions, DWDM, network fabric, and low-latency routing — and data center infrastructure (power, cooling, interconnection) sufficient to lead credible conversations with network architects and infrastructure executives. - Familiarity with programmable and software-defined network services — API-driven provisioning, dynamic bandwidth, network-as-a-service, and self-service portals — and how they differentiate connectivity offerings for AI infrastructure customers. - Familiarity with AI workload networking requirements, including east-west traffic for GPU cluster interconnection, distributed training, and data center interconnection, and north-south traffic for enterprise inference and AI application delivery. - Experience structuring wavelength, interconnection, or data center connectivity transactions on the buy side or sell side. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex infrastructure concepts to diverse audiences, including C-level executives. - Strong financial acumen: ability to build and defend business cases, pricing models, and multi-year revenue commitments using solid ROI analysis. - Experience navigating large, matrixed organizations and building internal coalitions to get complex deals approved and delivered. - Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously. - Experience leading or participating in industry panel discussions. We can combine all as requirements/qualifications/skills. Schedule: "Where you’ll be working In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies. Scheduled Weekly Hours 40" Thus schedule: hybrid role, min 3 days office, 40 hours weekly. Pay/Benefits: Benefits And Compensation section includes benefits list and salary ranges. We need separate Pay section for salary ranges? The instruction: include Pay section only if posting actually states them. It does state salary ranges. So we can have Pay section with salary ranges. Benefits section: list of benefits. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. Now produce HTML. Structure:

      About the role

      Intro paragraph(s). Could be multiple paragraphs but we can combine into one

      with line breaks? Probably just one

      containing the intro text.

      Responsibilities

      • ... each bullet
      • ...

      Requirements

      • ... each bullet (including both required and preferred)
      • ...

      Benefits

      • ... each benefit
      • ...

      Pay

      Salary ranges: ...

      Schedule

      Hybrid role details...

      We need to ensure we don't repeat job title. No extra headings. Check for any duplicated lines: we must not repeat. Now craft content precisely. Intro: Let's copy exactly as given but ensure proper punctuation. The intro: "When you join Verizon You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife." We'll put that in

      . Responsibilities bullets: need to keep the bold headings? The bullet includes a heading like "Growth Strategy & Execution:" then description. We can keep as is inside

    • . Let's list each. Requirements bullets: include both required and preferred. We'll list all. Benefits list: from "Benefits And Compensation" paragraph: "Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances." We need to extract list items: medical, dental, vision,

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