Apac Product Manager

Join the APAC Network Infrastructure IP PLM & Consulting Engineering team as a regional product manager & consulting engineer focused on data-center fabric. You will evangelize Nokia’s data-center solutions (SR Linux, 7750 SR, EDA) in customer workshops and internal forums, while shaping regional feature roadmaps through close collaboration with HQ Product Management and Engineering.
- Customer engagement: Lead workshops and presentations that demonstrate the benefits of Nokia’s datacenter solution into Enterprise, Webscale, Colocation, and Telco Cloud segments.
- Evangelism & enablement: Articulate product capabilities and best practices to internal sales/presales teams and external stakeholders, driving adoption of Nokia routing and data-center solutions.
- Product Influence: Collect APAC market requirements and feed them into HQ Product PLM and Engineering, driving strategic feature and solution development.
- Regional collaboration: Work closely with Nokia sales engineers, business development managers, and customer stakeholders to help win new business and ensure long-term adoption of Nokia solutions.

**Desired Soft Skills**
- **Compelling communicator**: adept at customer-facing engagements—presentations, white-boarding, and written/ verbal briefs—with the credibility to influence technical decision-makers.
- **Solution-centric mindset**: maintains a positive, constructive approach when navigating complex customer requirements and expectations.
- **High-performance collaborator**: self-motivated yet highly team-oriented, thriving under tight deadlines and in dynamic, high-pressure settings.
- **Fluent English (spoken & written)**: able to convey complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**Desired Technical Skills**
- **Expert DC networking**: deep hands-on skill with IPv4/IPv6, IGP, BGP, EVPN/VxLAN, and CLOS underlay/overlay design patterns; multi-vendor DC solutions (Nokia 7750/SRL, Arista, Cisco, Juniper); SRA/CCIE/JNCIE certification or equivalent strongly preferred.
- **Cloud & virtualization stack**: proven design/operations experience across Kubernetes, OpenStack, Nutanix, AWS/Azure/GCP networking, VMs/containers, and telco-cloud functions (vEPC, vIMS).
- **Automation & programmability**: proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, Python/Go/JavaScript, plus model-driven interfaces (Netconf/YANG/gNMI) for intent-based networking.
- **High-performance AI/HPC clusters**: AI-cluster and GPU-network design (NCCL, InfiniBand, rail optimized Ethernet design, RoCEv2), storage network design.

**Other**
- 10+ years of relevant hands-on experience within IP routing and datacenter market
- Flexible with travel (APAC region) and working hours (up to 25% travel)

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

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**What we offer**

Nokia offers 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.

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- One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by BloombergWorkplace Pride Global Benchmark

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