Direct Ciena’s Navigator planning roadmap through customer insight, research, and network optimization. Lead experts developing future telecommunications software capabilities.

As a senior technical leader, you will connect market needs and technology trends with prioritized research themes, product hypotheses, and planning tools. You will communicate a compelling vision across business leaders, customers, engineers, and product stakeholders. The Advanced Network Planning group supports Ciena’s largest customers while incubating optimization algorithms and tools. Research includes forecasting, capacity planning automation, route and spectrum assignment optimization, failure analysis, and service availability modeling. Product leadership spans concept, validation, productization, deployment, and measurable market adoption. Nice-to-have experience includes Python or comparable analytical programming tools, customer-facing consultancy,



and AI or machine-learning technologies in complex environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Shape Navigator roadmap through emerging customer and market needs
- Direct research into planning algorithms and tools
- Communicate technical vision across stakeholders
- Partner with product and engineering teams
- Mentor experts and strengthen critical technical capabilities

Requirements:

- 15+ years telecommunications experience
- 10+ years optical and IP transport expertise
- Software leadership from concept through market adoption
- Experience using AI tools for software development
- Python or comparable analytical programming experience welcomed

Combine product leadership, network optimization, customer insight, and AI-enabled development to shape Ciena’s Navigator roadmap and tools.

📌 Network Optimization Product Director (Ottawa)
🏢 Ciena
📍 Ottawa