Segment Technology Lead - Mission Critical & Enterprise

Nokia Corporation; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokia Corporation seeks a Technology Strategy Lead to translate market priorities into a coordinated technology strategy across MCE segments. You will consolidate regional needs, shape investment cases, and interface with Product Line Management for portfolio evolution and lifecycle planning.

Role emphasizes AI adoption, cross-segment alignment, and delivering measurable customer value while strengthening portfolio competitiveness and growth.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in technology strategy, product management, solution architecture, or related roles in networking/telecommunications.
• Strong technical understanding of networking hardware, NOS and management platforms.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies such as AI, security, automation, and policy.
• Ability to translate customer requirements and market insights into strategy, roadmaps and investment priorities.
• Experience building business cases and evaluating technology and lifecycle trade-offs.
• Ability to consolidate inputs from multiple regions and segments into clear recommendations.
• Experience collaborating across product, engineering, regional and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Define technology strategy and maintain long-term vision and roadmaps per segment.
• Guide portfolio evolution and lifecycle planning with PLM across hardware, NOS, and management platforms.
• Shape investment decisions by developing business cases for new products and enhancements.
• Drive cross-segment alignment and prioritize needs for AI, security, and policy.
• Consolidate regional requirements into prioritized recommendations for portfolio planning.
• Develop competitive intelligence from vertical leads to inform strategy.
• Support partnerships and ecosystem opportunities to strengthen capabilities.

Skills

Strategy development

Portfolio management

Cross-functional collaboration

Technology forecasting

AI, security, policy awareness

Tools

PLM systems

Competitive intelligence tools

Job description

The Technology Strategy Lead will translate market priorities and customer requirements into a coordinated technology strategy across MCE segments. This role will consolidate regional and vertical requirements, establish investment priorities, and provide a strategic interface to Product Line Management (PLM) for portfolio evolution and lifecycle planning.

The position will strengthen investment decisions through business cases for new products, enhancements, and portfolio rationalization. It will also establish a cross-segment perspective on emerging technologies-including AI, security, and policy-to improve customer value, portfolio competitiveness, and business growth.

Advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.

Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile and transport networks, powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we're advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.

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• Define technology strategy: Develop and maintain the long-term technology vision and roadmap for each segment, aligned with market demand, customer priorities, and business objectives.
• Guide portfolio evolution: Serve as the strategic interface to PLM for portfolio development, lifecycle planning, and rationalization across hardware, network operating systems (NOS), and management platforms.
• Shape investment decisions: Identify future technology investments and develop business cases for new products, product enhancements, and portfolio rationalization, evaluating customer value, commercial potential, and strategic fit.
• Drive cross-segment alignment: Represent shared technology needs across segments and establish priorities for product development and emerging capabilities, including AI, security, and policy.
• Prioritize regional requirements: Consolidate regional technology requirements into clear, prioritized recommendations that inform portfolio planning and development decisions.
• Develop competitive intelligence: Consolidate competitive analysis from vertical leads into a pan-segment perspective, identifying market gaps, opportunities, and implications for technology strategy.
• Support partnerships and ecosystem development: Identify and assess technology partnerships and ecosystem opportunities that strengthen portfolio capabilities and customer outcomes.
• Define AI adoption strategy: Establish the strategy for AI adoption across the portfolio, prioritizing use cases that deliver measurable customer and business value.
• Represent the customer's technical voice: Ensure MCE customer requirements and deployment priorities are reflected in technology direction and portfolio decisions.

• Relevant experience in technology strategy, product management, solution architecture, technical business development, or a related role within networking or telecommunications.
• Strong technical understanding of networking hardware, Operating Systems, management platforms, and their role in end-to-end customer solutions.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and their practical applications, including AI, security, automation, and policy.
• Demonstrated ability to translate customer requirements and market insights into technology strategies, roadmap recommendations, and investment priorities.
• Experience developing business cases and evaluating commercial, technical, and lifecycle trade-offs.
• Ability to consolidate complex inputs from multiple regions and segments into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Experience working across product, engineering, regional, and commercial teams to build alignment and influence decisions.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to present technical strategy and business implications to senior stakeholders.

Our recruitment process

We act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Our employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

If you're interested in this role but don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity.

The length of the recruitment process may vary depending on the specific role's requirements. We strive to ensure a smooth and inclusive experience for all candidates. Discover more about the recruitment process at Nokia.