Ribbon needs to lead the product strategy, development, and launch of solutions tailored to government agencies and departments, evolving their product portfolio for virtualization and cloud-based offers for the Federal customer base.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of the federal market, government agencies, and relevant DoD Cybersecurity requirements is essential
- Proven experience developing and delivering real-time communications products and solutions for the Federal market
- Strong technical aptitude and business knowledge
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with our Design and Development teams to bring to-market winning Federal solution to compete with ours in the Federal market
- Understanding specific government needs, translating those needs into product requirements, and ensuring the solutions meet regulatory compliance and industry standards such as FIPS 140 and drive to have Ribbon products achieve and/or continue to maintain their Approved Product Listing (APL) for selling into US DoD agencies.
- Work closely with our 3rd parties that make up the essential parts of the Ribbon Federal Solutions
- Assess product development enhancement opportunities and appropriate release cadence
- Coordinate RFI/RFQ/RFP responses and field trials
- Product lifecycle management from concept to launch to end-of-life
- Ownership and vision of the product roadmap including prioritization of features
Other
- This role will be based in Washington, DC, Plano, TX or US remote.
- This is a “roll up your sleeves” position, where the right candidate will set the direction, work collaboratively across multiple product teams, 3rd parties and deliver solutions that are of the highest quality and carrier grade scale while providing market leading operational efficiency.
- Work with sales on product quotes, customer specific presentations and determining new product requirements
- Influence cross-functional leaders in support of strategic product directions
- Align product vision with the businesses short and long-term goals
