Connectivity Technologies and Ecosystems Manager

Meta's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Diversity is essential to achieving our mission and we're committed to building a workplace that reflects individuals with different backgrounds and experiences. In order to achieve this, we must start with our job postings. This guide will provide details on how to draft inclusive job postings optimizing for a more diverse candidate pool. By considering the needs of our candidates, this guide will: teach you to eliminate words or phrases that might discourage diverse candidates from applying, provide internal/external resources on Meta's diversity initiatives, and provide a sample job posting highlighting which changes were made to make it more inclusive.Through organizations like the Telecom Infra Project () (TIP) and through direct engagement with individual operators around the world, the team collaborates globally with the telecom industry to identify and execute a range of connectivity programs. If you have passion for working with operators, ISPs, technology vendors and other industry stakeholders to drive innovative, cutting edge, cost-efficient connectivity infrastructure projects that will deliver Internet access to the unconnected while significantly scaling current networks - then this is a great role for you.As a Connectivity Technologies and Ecosystems Manager you will work closely with the Meta Connectivity team and TIP ecosystem members to develop technologies and programs to bring more people online to a faster Internet. You will interface with large network operators, industry leading hardware/software vendors, systems solution providers, and many other connectivity partners, to understand how Meta and its partners' contributions can be of most impact to the diverse connectivity ecosystem. This position is full-time and is based in Madrid.

Connectivity Technologies and Ecosystems Manager Responsibilities:

• A telecom technology and industry expert who questions the status quo and develops a strategic vision for the connectivity technology landscape to shape Meta's efforts in the validation of telecom technologies, spanning radio, transport and core. And ultimately enable infrastructure solutions with the network operator community and drive deployments across the industry at large.
• Develop and own end-to-end implementation of frameworks that accelerate readiness of telecom solutions through rigorous technical testing and certification, in internal and third-party testing facilities across the globe.
• Manage technical and business relationships with network operators and infrastructure partners to help reduce friction and remove obstacles facing networking hardware/software development, testing, and market adoption.
• Identify key use cases and common technical requirements from operator partners to drive technology validation and certification parameters within Meta programs and the technology vendor community.
• Identify key metrics/measures that will be used to evaluate success and validate the business impact of the program.
• Carefully track industry trends in technology testing and certification, as well as in commercial and technical evaluation and procurement of solutions, and develop programs, frameworks and processes that reduce operator overhead, and that ultimately drive adoption of products that represent a technical and/or commercial advantage for network operators.
• Align cross-functional stakeholders on objectives and goals for the program, gather and prioritize requirements.
• Build relationships, gain consensus, remove tension/roadblocks and focus on the solution.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to drive infrastructure hardware/software proof of concepts trials within Meta and TIP programs and/or at partner labs ultimately leading to field trial evaluations prior to rapid commercial deployment.
• Fluency in English and at least one other major European language, French or Spanish preferred.
• 10+ years of experience as a program manager/engineer/architect in one or more of the telecom infrastructure areas - Radio, Transport, Core.
• Communication skills including ability to speak to technical and business audiences
• Ability to understand high level architecture for system dependencies and translate these into technical requirements and roadmaps.
• BS or higher in Telecommunications engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree/experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Track record of managing complex programs with multiple internal and external dependencies, through the entire lifecycle, from inception to completion.
• Experience in new product introduction and technology deployment projects covering a wide range of hardware (radio access, IP, optical, compute) and software (OSS, BSS, SDN) technologies.
• Firm understanding of the telecom technology industry: use cases, solutions, standards, certification bodies, technology providers, etc.
• Firm understanding of mobile and fixed broadband network operators: service offerings, organisational structures, challenges, procurement processes, competitive landscape, etc.
• Ability to understand network operator deployment scenarios such as different geographies, population densities, indoor vs. outdoor, range of ARPUs and uses cases such as fixed/mobile access, enterprise/public access to drive development of flexible, cost-effective and open infrastructure