Drive implementation and global delivery of technical strategy, oversee engineering teams, manage talent acquisition, and ensure high-quality service delivery in cloud-native telecommunications.
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At this time, Ericsson Canada Inc. does not provide immigration assistance/sponsorship now or in the future for this position.
About this opportunity:
Ericsson On-Demand: Shaping the next telecommunication paradigm.
We are transforming the mobile telecommunications market by bringing solutions forward with true as-a-Service technologies and commercial models built on the public cloud. Our partnership with Google Cloud is breaking new ground, enabling Ericsson Core Network Services-starting with the 5G DMC-to be deployed at hyperscaler scale.
Launched earlier in 2025, Ericsson On-Demand is rapidly moving from incubation to commercial readiness and is now preparing for trials to meet market demands.
What you will do:
Strategic Leadership & Execution:
• Drive the implementation and global delivery of the technical strategy and roadmap in alignment with the global Ericsson On-Demand and Core Network Services vision specifically focusing on the public cloud and as-a-Service model for the sub-services under the responsibility of the engineering head.
• In collaboration with Technology Evolution, drive the architecture and technical direction for all sub-services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency at hyperscaler.
• Lead the adoption of modern engineering practices, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), site reliability engineering (SRE), and cloud-native development methodologies across the relevant sub-services and collaboratively with the European engineering head to ensure an aligned approach.
Organizational Management & Development:
• Manage and mentor a high-performing team of Engineers, providing guidance on career development, technical challenges, and team dynamics.
• Oversee talent acquisition, retention, and performance management for personnel.
• Foster an inclusive, innovative, and results-oriented engineering culture that emphasizes accountability and cross-functional collaboration.
• Identify and build the required competencies in the North engineering team to meet the evolving business and technology challenges.
• Collaborate with the leadership team to define the engineering ways of working and deliverables in accordance with the business, technology, security and compliance requirements and ensure alignment to those processes and ways of working.
• Build a predictable, scalable and sustainable engineering organization that is able to deliver consistent business value to the market.
Operational Excellence & Delivery:
• Ensure the successful, timely, and high-quality delivery (including functional, non-functional and security/compliance) of all relevant sub-services, from initial incubation/trials to commercial deployments to scaling up to support a growing customer base.
• Provide sub-services expertise through the SRE Prime roles in your team towards the SRE organization, enabling close collaboration and blameless culture of inter-working and DevOps culture
• Manage the resource allocation of the engineering team to maximize efficiency and impact. Show adaptability and flexibility to support the evolving business needs.
• Establish and monitor metrics for engineering productivity, quality, and operational health.
The skills you bring:
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role overseeing multiple engineers.
• Proven track record of building and scaling cloud-native, telecommunication, or distributed systems at a global scale.
• Deep expertise in public cloud infrastructure, as-a-Service models, and DevOps principles.
• Strong understanding of of API driven as-a-Service Control Plane and Core Network Test Framework technologies
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices and as-a-Service business models
Desired Skills & Attributes
• Exceptional ability to translate complex business challenges into clear technical strategies and execution plans.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, negotiation, and influencing skills, capable of engaging both technical and executive audiences.
• Experience managing teams across multiple locations
• Experience mentoring, developing technical talent, and creating scalable organizations
• Proven track of record
• High energy and good collaboration skills
Why join Ericsson?
At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply?
Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.
Ericsson uses a merit-based hiring approach that values people with different experiences, perspectives and skillsets. We truly believe this approach drives innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer, learn more.
If you need assistance or to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact Ericsson at [email protected].
DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this position. They are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this position, and you may be required to perform additional job tasks as assigned.
Primary country and city: Canada (CA) || Ottawa (Country/ City)
Job details: Product Development Leader
Compensation and Benefits at Ericsson
At Ericsson, we know that our people are the key to our success. We offer a competitive package to help with your individual needs and goals.
Your Pay
The salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, and the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
The salary range for this position is
• Ottawa: $174,000 - $ 228,375 CAD
Short-Term Variable Compensation Plan: Your pay also includes the opportunity for an annual bonus. Actual bonus payouts are based on performance of the business against the unit's objectives, individual performance, and the individual bonus target. Certain eligibility and pro-ration rules apply.
Your Health
Ericsson offers excellent health benefits including the choice of 3 medical and dental plan options that allow an employee to select the level of coverage that suits their needs. Core level coverage is paid for fully by Ericsson.
Your Financial Security
We invest in both your short and long-term financial wellbeing. Ericsson's Group Retirement & Savings Program offers an automatic 2% company contribution into the Pension Plan. Ericsson also offers a 50% match of employee's contribution into the Registered Retirement Savings Plan, up to 8% of the employee's contribution (maximum of 4% match). This leads to a total company contribution potential of 6%. Employees will also basic life insurance and basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage at two-times annual base pay at no cost, as well as short-term disability coverage. Employees also have the option to participate in Ericsson's Stock Purchase Plan.
Your Time
Your work-life balance is important to us. New employees are provided a minimum of 18 days of accrued vacation, at least 3personal days, minimum 10 holidays, 1 volunteer day, and sick days. Please note paid time off is pro-rated based on the employee's start date. Furthermore, Ericsson provides up to 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
Additional Benefits
Ericsson offers many other company-paid benefits such as financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, wellness account, and recognition programs.
At this time, Ericsson Canada Inc. does not provide immigration assistance/sponsorship now or in the future for this position.
About this opportunity:
Ericsson On-Demand: Shaping the next telecommunication paradigm.
We are transforming the mobile telecommunications market by bringing solutions forward with true as-a-Service technologies and commercial models built on the public cloud. Our partnership with Google Cloud is breaking new ground, enabling Ericsson Core Network Services-starting with the 5G DMC-to be deployed at hyperscaler scale.
Launched earlier in 2025, Ericsson On-Demand is rapidly moving from incubation to commercial readiness and is now preparing for trials to meet market demands.
What you will do:
Strategic Leadership & Execution:
• Drive the implementation and global delivery of the technical strategy and roadmap in alignment with the global Ericsson On-Demand and Core Network Services vision specifically focusing on the public cloud and as-a-Service model for the sub-services under the responsibility of the engineering head.
• In collaboration with Technology Evolution, drive the architecture and technical direction for all sub-services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency at hyperscaler.
• Lead the adoption of modern engineering practices, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), site reliability engineering (SRE), and cloud-native development methodologies across the relevant sub-services and collaboratively with the European engineering head to ensure an aligned approach.
Organizational Management & Development:
• Manage and mentor a high-performing team of Engineers, providing guidance on career development, technical challenges, and team dynamics.
• Oversee talent acquisition, retention, and performance management for personnel.
• Foster an inclusive, innovative, and results-oriented engineering culture that emphasizes accountability and cross-functional collaboration.
• Identify and build the required competencies in the North engineering team to meet the evolving business and technology challenges.
• Collaborate with the leadership team to define the engineering ways of working and deliverables in accordance with the business, technology, security and compliance requirements and ensure alignment to those processes and ways of working.
• Build a predictable, scalable and sustainable engineering organization that is able to deliver consistent business value to the market.
Operational Excellence & Delivery:
• Ensure the successful, timely, and high-quality delivery (including functional, non-functional and security/compliance) of all relevant sub-services, from initial incubation/trials to commercial deployments to scaling up to support a growing customer base.
• Provide sub-services expertise through the SRE Prime roles in your team towards the SRE organization, enabling close collaboration and blameless culture of inter-working and DevOps culture
• Manage the resource allocation of the engineering team to maximize efficiency and impact. Show adaptability and flexibility to support the evolving business needs.
• Establish and monitor metrics for engineering productivity, quality, and operational health.
The skills you bring:
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role overseeing multiple engineers.
• Proven track record of building and scaling cloud-native, telecommunication, or distributed systems at a global scale.
• Deep expertise in public cloud infrastructure, as-a-Service models, and DevOps principles.
• Strong understanding of of API driven as-a-Service Control Plane and Core Network Test Framework technologies
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices and as-a-Service business models
Desired Skills & Attributes
• Exceptional ability to translate complex business challenges into clear technical strategies and execution plans.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, negotiation, and influencing skills, capable of engaging both technical and executive audiences.
• Experience managing teams across multiple locations
• Experience mentoring, developing technical talent, and creating scalable organizations
• Proven track of record
• High energy and good collaboration skills
Why join Ericsson?
At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply?
Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.
Ericsson uses a merit-based hiring approach that values people with different experiences, perspectives and skillsets. We truly believe this approach drives innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer, learn more.
If you need assistance or to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact Ericsson at [email protected].
DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this position. They are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this position, and you may be required to perform additional job tasks as assigned.
Primary country and city: Canada (CA) || Ottawa (Country/ City)
Job details: Product Development Leader
Compensation and Benefits at Ericsson
At Ericsson, we know that our people are the key to our success. We offer a competitive package to help with your individual needs and goals.
Your Pay
The salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, and the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
The salary range for this position is
• Ottawa: $174,000 - $ 228,375 CAD
Short-Term Variable Compensation Plan: Your pay also includes the opportunity for an annual bonus. Actual bonus payouts are based on performance of the business against the unit's objectives, individual performance, and the individual bonus target. Certain eligibility and pro-ration rules apply.
Your Health
Ericsson offers excellent health benefits including the choice of 3 medical and dental plan options that allow an employee to select the level of coverage that suits their needs. Core level coverage is paid for fully by Ericsson.
Your Financial Security
We invest in both your short and long-term financial wellbeing. Ericsson's Group Retirement & Savings Program offers an automatic 2% company contribution into the Pension Plan. Ericsson also offers a 50% match of employee's contribution into the Registered Retirement Savings Plan, up to 8% of the employee's contribution (maximum of 4% match). This leads to a total company contribution potential of 6%. Employees will also basic life insurance and basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage at two-times annual base pay at no cost, as well as short-term disability coverage. Employees also have the option to participate in Ericsson's Stock Purchase Plan.
Your Time
Your work-life balance is important to us. New employees are provided a minimum of 18 days of accrued vacation, at least 3personal days, minimum 10 holidays, 1 volunteer day, and sick days. Please note paid time off is pro-rated based on the employee's start date. Furthermore, Ericsson provides up to 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
Additional Benefits
Ericsson offers many other company-paid benefits such as financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, wellness account, and recognition programs.
Top Skills
Api Driven Technologies
Cloud Infrastructure
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Devops Principles
Site Reliability Engineering
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