Senior Product Manager, AI Infrastructure and Networking

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Product Manager (AI Connect Infrastructure and Networking)

• Focus: Scaling networking products in hyperscale/high-performance computing environments for AI

• Work style: Hybrid (home + at least 3 days/week in office, set by manager)

• Travel: Up to 25%

• Schedule: 40 hours/week

Description

Verizon Business seeks a Senior Product Manager to drive Verizon's AI Connect growth strategy. The role scales product adoption and ecosystem integration across the AI infrastructure value chain (hyperscalers, GPU cloud providers, data center developers/operators, colocation providers, real estate partners, OEMs, and emerging AI infrastructure companies). You will own the growth funnel from initial market identification through commercial scale by optimizing product-market fit, structuring scalable commercial frameworks, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure initiatives are commercially sound and technically deliverable.

Responsibilities

• Growth Strategy & Execution: Lead the 0-to-1 growth lifecycle aligned to AI Connect revenue objectives; drive product-market fit from market mapping and target identification through commercial launch and active revenue expansion.

• Data-Driven Market Growth: Analyze the AI infrastructure landscape including data center construction pipelines, power availability, GPU deployment trends, fiber route economics, and interconnection dynamics; use insights to optimize the product go-to-market funnel 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 convert fiber footprint, optical services portfolio, and AI-ready facilities into recurring infrastructure revenue.

• Growth Modeling & Commercialization: Develop scalable commercial models for optical and fiber-based services (including Wavelength Services 10G/100G/400G+), optical extensions, programmable network fabric, data center interconnection, and AI-ready facility partnerships; set pricing constructs, capacity commitments, and route-specific terms for adoption and platform stickiness.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Product, Network Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Sales to shape offers and deal terms and ensure execution from signature through delivery.

• Stakeholder Management: Communicate and manage expectations with executives, sponsors, and external partners/customers; represent AI Connect credibly and technically at senior levels.

• Performance Measurement: Establish and track KPIs such as pipeline value, signed contract value, revenue conversion, and partner health.

• Technology & Market Fluency: Apply expertise in fiber products/services and network fabric (DWDM, Wavelength Services, optical extensions, low-latency routing, programmable/API-driven network fabric) and data center fundamentals (power, cooling, density, interconnection) plus AI workload traffic patterns.

• Business Strategy: Define partnership business models, pricing strategies, target segments, execution plans, and financial business cases for AI infrastructure and networking opportunities.

• Content Creation: Create partner-facing collateral, business cases, and executive presentations for internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience

• Six or more years of relevant experience (work/military experience or specialized training)

• Six or more years of relevant experience in technology and/or telecommunications

• Demonstrated understanding of the AI infrastructure market (fiber networks and optical services, data centers, colocation, interconnection)

• Experience originating, structuring, negotiating, and closing large complex multi-year commercial/partnership agreements (from inception to signing)

• Experience with business models and/or business cases for infrastructure or connectivity services

• Experience with B2B partnerships, enterprise sales, or corporate development

• Willingness to travel up to 25%

Benefits

• Health and wellness: medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance, group home & auto insurance

• Matched 401(k) savings plan

• Paid time off: up to 8 company-paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; tuition assistance

• Vacation: newly hired employees receive up to 15 days per year (grows with additional service)

• Premium pay opportunities depending on role (overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc.)

• Incentive based position with potential to earn more

• Salary range varies by location and confirmed job-related skills/experience: $128,000.00 - $245,000.00 (general) and location-specific ranges for Illinois, Maryland, and New York