Strategic Product Manager | Early Career Program

Company description:

Ericsson AB

Job description: About this opportunity Ericsson’s Early Career Program is an 18-month journey for you who are recently graduated or have up to five years of relevant experience. Through three rotations, including one international and market exposure, you will tackle challenges that matter, work alongside people who expect you to contribute, question, and move things forward.

The Innovate track is designed for you who are driven by building what’s next. You’ll rotate across Research & Development, Market Area, and Product Management contributing to solutions that don’t just support the business but move it forward.

This isn’t a program where you sit on the sidelines. From day one, you’re hired into a role, trusted to contribute, supported to grow, and expected to make an impact. Find out more about the Early Career program here. Your journey within the Innovate Program will start as Strategic Product Manager.

What you will do

Would you like to build on your technical experience and explore how technology turns into products, customer value and new business opportunities?

In this role, you will join our RAN Software Product Management team, working with new service capabilities and security in RAN. You will learn how we shape our portfolio, understand emerging market and customer needs for 5G and 6G, and translate technology into clear value for our customers.

We are looking for an early-career professional who wants to build on a strong technical foundation and grow towards strategic product management. You will work alongside experienced Strategic Product Managers and gain exposure to both the technical, marketing and commercial sides of RAN Software. Your initial focus will be on Differentiated Connectivity, supporting work around new connectivity capabilities and services, including network slicing, service awareness and time critical applications.

Work alongside Strategic Product Managers to support the development of our RAN Software portfolio.

Explore how advanced RAN and 5G capabilities can address customer needs and enable new services and business opportunities

Develop stories and proof points that helps our presales and sales teams globally to translate technical capabilities into clear value propositions and customer benefits

Support customer engagements together with product managers, Market Areas and other teams across Ericsson

Analyse market developments, customer needs and emerging services to provide relevant insights to the team

Build your understanding of RAN Software product management, while gaining exposure to our broader portfolio.

You will bring 2–5 years of relevant professional experience, ideally within RAN, telecom technology, systems engineering, research, technical presales or a related area

A strong technical foundation and understanding of mobile networks, ideally with experience or knowledge of RAN

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand new and complex topics quickly

The ability to communicate technical topics clearly and work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders

Curiosity about customers, markets and the business opportunities created by new technology

A collaborative mindset and the ability to build relationships across different teams and areas

Strong personal drive, accountability and a willingness to learn and take on new challenges