Director of Deployment Solutions

Director of Deployment Solutions

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in customer-facing technical roles, involving wireless RF hardware systems
• Strong understanding of 5G NR, RAN architecture, and RF system behavior
• Fluent in customer engagements from giving executive presentations to participating in sales negotiations
• Experience with project management processes in cross-functional and -organizational environments
• Excellent troubleshooting skills under pressure and minimal guidance
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of working time as needed

Responsibilities

• Be part of the Sales-team, understand each Customer’s specific plans and characteristics of where RUs are installed and the conditions they operate
• Drive and arrange site pre-surveys with the customers. Ensure that any requirements and feedback impacting RU product or site-kits are captured and properly concluded prior to corresponding deployment
• Develop guidelines, practices and procedures that are used to deliver high-quality site solutions across various customer segments and use cases
• Understand the various deployment aspects of both outdoor and indoor installations in different environments and installation types (tower- and pole-mounts, rooftops, wall installations), also when RU and antenna are co-located
• Build a competitive (performance, cost) vendor-base across various accessories and ancillaries, ensuring the overall RU deployments to be successful (especially for reliability, safety and usability)
• Plan and prepare materials for pre-staging, ensure the documentation availability and plan the deployment (materials, time, cost other resources), including the customer when needed
• Lead the RU deployment with the customer, installation partner and other stakeholders for successful completion and customer sign-off
• Own the deployment aspects (“deployability”), including installation & operation compliance across various deployment types and environments
• Drive competitive and quality improvements to upcoming new RU HW Platforms and Products with other internal stakeholders
• Maintain and follow-up lessons-learnt and best practices related to site solutions and RU deployments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with O-RAN/vRAN architecture and interfacing with DU/CU platforms
• Ability to conceptualize RU site solutions and dependencies with the operational environment, CU/DU interfaces (fronthaul) and typical Telecom infrastructure
• Experience in fast-paced startup or customer deployment settings
• Strong communication and documentation skills