[USA] RF Product Manager

Spectrum Effect; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Spectrum Effect in the Seattle area is seeking an RF Product Manager with a strong RF engineering background to drive high-value features for Spectrum-NET. You will own end-to-end product lifecycles, translate customer needs into technical requirements, and lead cross-functional efforts across systems, software, QA and operations.

Based in or willing to relocate to the Greater Seattle Area, you will collaborate with customers, success teams, and executives to shape roadmaps, communicate complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 3–7+ years in product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
• Translate customer insights into clear technical requirements and designs.
• Cross-functional delivery experience to ship features and improvements.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end product lifecycle for key features from concept to delivery.
• Serve as primary interface with customers to collect, iterate on, and validate requirements.
• Translate needs into detailed designs and work with developers to implement.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, software, QA, and operations to ensure feasibility.
• Communicate complex RF/software concepts to internal and external stakeholders.
• Define, sequence, and maintain product roadmaps with leadership input.

Skills

RF product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer engagement

Technical communication

Problem solving

English fluency

Roadmap development

Jira integration

Education

Bachelors in EE/CE

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Do you thrive in environments where you are empowered to make impactful decisions and bring clarity to complex problems? Do you want to be part of a fast-moving high-growth company? Come and join us at Spectrum Effect!

Spectrum Effect’s mission is to solve the most challenging and costly problems in the wireless industry through innovation and AI-powered automation. Our team is passionate about creating disruptive technologies, developing solutions with engineering excellence, and delivering substantial value to our customers. Deployed by leading mobile operators across the globe, our Spectrum-NET software solution performs automated AI-driven analysis of radio access networks. Spectrum-NET is a cloud-native, horizontally scalable solution based on a Kubernetes-orchestrated microservices architecture.

Our 60+ person team is located primarily in Seattle (U.S.) and Monterrey (Mexico), with team members enjoying ownership in our private company through stock options and competitive salaries. This is an amazing opportunity to join an emerging leader in the AI automation space and make a real impact on the mobile industry.

Job Description

We are seeking a RF Product Manager with a strong background in RF engineering and familiarity with software development. This role is essential to ensuring we deliver high value innovations to our customers. The ideal candidate will excel in navigating ambiguity, driving cross-functional collaboration, and translating complex technical concepts or customer insights into thoughtful designs and sets of requirements.

We are looking for someone who can:

Product Ownership: Lead end-to-end product lifecycle for key features from concept and requirements gathering through delivery.

Customer Engagement: Serve as the primary interface with customers to collect, iterate on, and validate requirements. Collaborate with Customer Success to bring real-time customer feedback from end users into product decisions.

System Translation: Work with system engineers to translate customer needs into detailed designs and work with development owners to implement those designs into Spectrum-NET. Ensure every feature is grounded in solving key customer needs.

Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborate with systems engineering, software engineering, QA, and operations teams to ensure features are technically sound, feasible, and aligned with business goals.

Comfort with Ambiguity: Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment with shifting priorities. Maintain a pragmatic, solutions-oriented outlook. Bring structure and clarity when navigating situations with high uncertainty.

Technical Communication: Communicate complex RF/software concepts effectively to both internal and external stakeholders, including executive audiences.

Roadmap Development: Collaborate with the VP of Product to define, sequence, and maintain product roadmaps based on market insights, customer feedback, and inputs from internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent

3–7+ years of experience in product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles

Proven ability to translate customer insights and feedback into clear technical requirements and designs

Successful track record of working cross-functionally to deliver features and improvements

Highly skilled at collaborating with both technical and non-technical audiences

Strong organizational, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

Customer obsessed, with the ability to effectively and relentlessly represent customers’ needs and interests in every conversation with internal stakeholders

Excellent written and communications skills in English

Preferred Skills

Understanding of LTE and 5G NR RF network optimization and troubleshooting processes and experience with Nokia, Huawei, Ericsson and/or Samsung RAN products

Experience with radio propagation planning and radio parameter optimization for cellular networks

Experience in analyzing and identifying source of interference, troubleshooting and optimization of Nokia, Huawei, Ericsson and/or Samsung based LTE and/or 5G NR networks

Understanding of machine learning techniques and its applications is considered a plus

Working knowledge of 3GPP standards

Experience with at least one of the following programming languages: MATLAB, Python (with Numpy, Pandas)

Familiarity with software development methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)

Additional Information

Why Join Us

• Dynamic Team:Collaborate with passionate experts driving real innovation in the telecom space
• Career Growth:Work on high-impact problems with real ownership and visibility
• Meaningful Work:Help shape the next generation of ML-driven network analytics
• Attractive Benefits:Competitive salary, stock options, and a flexible work environment

This is a hybrid position. The candidate should be based in or willing to relocate to the Greater Seattle Area.