Network Product Owner / Network Side Business Analyst

Job Title: Networking-Focused Product Owner / Network BA

Location: Irving TX, Westerville OH, Phoenix AZ

Position Summary

• The candidate must understand networking well enough to work independently with network engineers and translate their requirements into backlog items and user stories.
• Required networking domain knowledge and Agile backlog ownership.
• This role provides end-to-end product ownership across networking capabilities, including Telecom & Hardware, Network Infrastructure, and Network Services. The role is accountable for establishing product direction, managing the roadmap and backlog, prioritizing demand, coordinating dependencies, and ensuring technology investments deliver intended business and operational outcomes.
• The Product Analyst partners with stakeholders, network engineering teams, architects, and delivery resources to balance strategic initiatives, operational needs, lifecycle requirements, resiliency, risk remediation, and technical investment.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, backlog, and priorities for Networking Connectivity & Services.
• Manage demand and prioritize work based on business value, risk, operational impact, lifecycle needs, dependencies, and available capacity.
• Maintain an integrated view of work across Telecom & Hardware, Network Infrastructure, and Network Services.
• Partner with stakeholders and technical teams to translate needs into clearly defined initiatives, requirements, features, stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure work is appropriately defined, prioritized, sequenced, and ready for delivery
• Coordinate cross-team and cross-product dependencies and facilitate priority and sequencing decisions.
• Incorporate network resiliency, availability, capacity, lifecycle, technical debt, security, and risk remediation into product planning.