Senior Product Manager, AI Infra & Networking Growth

Verizon; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead growth for the AI Connect Infrastructure and Networking team in a hybrid New York setting. You will drive market identification, platform adoption, and scalable commercial models across hyperscalers, data centers, and AI infrastructure partners.

You will analyze AI infrastructure trends, shape offers, pricing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure successful, revenue-driven outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Six or more years of relevant experience in technology and/or telecommunications.
• Demonstrated understanding of the AI infrastructure market, including fiber networks and optical services, data centers, colocation, and interconnection.
• Experience originating, structuring, negotiating, and closing large, complex, multi-year commercial or partnership agreements - from inception to signing.
• Experience with business models and/or business cases for infrastructure or connectivity services.
• Experience with Business-to-Business partnerships, enterprise sales, or corporate development.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Growth Strategy & Execution: Lead the 0-to-1 growth lifecycle to ensure alignment with AI Connect revenue objectives.
• Drive product-market fit from initial market mapping and target identification through commercial launch and active revenue expansion.
• Data-Driven Market Growth: Conduct thorough analysis of the AI infrastructure landscape, including data center construction pipelines, power availability, GPU deployment trends, fiber route economics, and interconnection dynamics.
• Leverage these insights to optimize the product go-to-market funnel, inform growth strategy, and prioritize high-value segments.
• Ecosystem Product Strategy: Define and manage the growth roadmap across hyperscalers, data center and colocation operators, real estate partners, OEMs, and emerging AI infrastructure companies.
• Identify product white space to build scalable solutions that convert Verizon's fiber footprint, optical services portfolio, and AI-ready facilities into recurring infrastructure revenue.
• Growth Modeling & Commercialization: Develop scalable commercial models spanning optical and fiber-based services, such as Wavelength Services (10G/100G/400G+), optical extensions, programmable network fabric, data center interconnection, and AI-ready facility partnerships.
• Establish pricing constructs, capacity commitments, and route-specific terms optimized for rapid market adoption and platform stickiness.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with Product, Network Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Sales teams to shape offers and deal terms, and to ensure seamless execution from signature through delivery.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate effectively and manage expectations with business sponsors, company executives, external partners, and customers, acting as a credible and technically fluent representative of Verizon AI Connect at the most senior levels.
• Performance Measurement: Establish and track KPIs - pipeline value, signed contract value, revenue conversion, and partner health - to measure partnership success and inform continuous improvement.
• Technology & Market Fluency: Possess a strong understanding of fiber products, services, and network fabric - including optical networking (DWDM), Wavelength Services, optical extensions, low-latency routing, and programmable, API-driven network fabric - along with data center fundamentals (power, cooling, density, interconnection) and the traffic patterns of AI workloads, including east-west requirements for training and data center interconnection and north-south requirements for enterprise inference.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging AI infrastructure trends to keep Verizon's strategy competitive.
• Business Strategy: Define partnership business models, pricing strategies, target segments, execution plans, and financial business cases for AI Infrastructure and Networking opportunities.
• Content Creation: Develop compelling partner-facing collateral, business cases, and executive presentations for internal and external stakeholders.

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead growth for the AI Connect Infrastructure and Networking team in a hybrid New York setting. You will drive market identification, platform adoption, and scalable commercial models across hyperscalers, data centers, and AI infrastructure partners.

You will analyze AI infrastructure trends, shape offers, pricing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure successful, revenue-driven outcomes.