Ciena

Project Manager

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of services projects across the United Kingdom, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, and quality commitments are met.
• Coordinate cross‑functional resources, including engineering teams, partners, and internal stakeholders, to execute agreed delivery plans.
• Drive customer‑facing project governance, including progress reviews, risk management, and milestone tracking.
• Manage project communications, providing clear and timely visibility of status, risks, and mitigation actions.
• Monitor delivery performance against financial targets, supporting accurate revenue recognition and margin attainment.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery, technical, and commercial risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to presales and delivery decisions that balance technical feasibility, delivery risk, and commercial outcomes.

Engineer

• Read and understand the FEC architecture and functional requirements specification document(s) and communicate and collaborate with FEC designers, DSP modelers, FEC verifiers, systems engineers and architects
• Develop verification, functional coverage and formal verification test plans
• Thoroughly validate one or more architectural FEC functional blocks using a combination of simulation, formal, and coverage methods
• Create testbench environments and components, agents, scoreboard, and test scenarios using System Verilog UVM and C++
• Perform coverage-driven verification, monitor regressions, and debug failures with the support of the function's designer
• Provide status updates on verification progress on a regular basis and communicate risks as needed
• Mentor and supervise junior verification engineers

Digital Verification Engineer – Prime

Network Engineer

• Deliver post‑sales solution engineering services, including solution design, solution acceptance, remote deployment, and network reconfiguration or migration activities under senior engineer supervision.
• Interface with Systems Engineering, Service Project Management, Technical Support, Field Service Engineering, and Customer Service Advocate teams to coordinate deployment activities.
• Analyze system engineering network designs and translate them into solution designs for new builds, reconfigurations, and network upgrade projects.
• Gather and analyze customer network data to develop migration strategies supporting successful transitions to Ciena platforms.
• Review technical deployment packages with internal and external stakeholders to ensure deployment readiness and shared understanding.
• Act as a technical escalation point for deployment package issues, collaborating with engineering, customers, and internal teams to resolve design or product concerns.
• Provide off‑site escalation and maintenance window support during in‑service network upgrades, including nights and weekends.

Associate Network Engineer, EMEA

• Develop and industrialize optical assembly processes and systems from concept through start‑up and certification
• Lead definition of equipment specifications, performance requirements, and integration proposals for optical assembly machinery
• Integrate automation and tooling solutions in collaboration with internal engineering teams, suppliers, and contractors
• Execute experimental testing in cleanroom environments to evaluate and optimize optical assembly processes and equipment
• Oversee equipment installation, site acceptance testing, and transfer to contract manufacturing operations
• Own and optimize complete product assembly flows, including active optical alignment and passive optical and mechanical assembly sequences
• Analyze assemblies from contract manufacturing partners and identify process improvement opportunities.

Senior Optical Assembly Process Engineer

Affiliate Manager

• Lead and expand partnerships across System Integrators, VARs, Distributors, and CMS partners within the Ciena Partner Network ecosystem.
• Develop and execute joint business plans aligned to inflight tenders, regional priorities, and strategic growth opportunities.
• Drive service creation initiatives from concept through productization and monetization, ensuring operational readiness.
• Translate complex networking technologies into partner-ready solutions that enable adoption and customer value.
• Execute coordinated marketing and demand-generation programs with partners and sales teams.
• Identify, qualify, and progress consultative sales opportunities and inflight tenders in collaboration with direct sales teams.
• Monitor execution against business targets and CPNe program requirements.

Partner Leader

Full-stack Engineer

• Design and develop responsive front‑end applications using ReactJS or AngularJS, transforming complex data flows into intuitive user experiences.
• Build and maintain robust backend services with Python frameworks such as Django or Flask.
• Convert legacy spreadsheet‑based workflows into scalable, interactive web applications.
• Integrate RESTful APIs and manage data interactions with platforms including Snowflake and PostgreSQL.
• Partner with UX/UI designers, product managers, and cross‑functional engineering teams to deliver high‑quality solutions.
• Apply secure coding practices, performance optimization techniques, and CI/CD methodologies.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Full Stack Developer

SDET

• Lead and execute product verification and test automation initiatives across complex, distributed systems
• Translate high‑level product requirements into comprehensive manual test plans that maximise coverage and customer experience
• Design, automate, and maintain end‑to‑end (E2E) tests for Angular‑based user interfaces and Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) services
• Integrate automated test suites into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using industry best practices
• Plan, build, and manage lab or simulation environments to support advanced system‑level testing scenarios
• Identify, investigate, and clearly communicate software defects with potential customer impact, collaborating closely with development teams on resolution
• Provide clear, actionable test status updates to global stakeholders and continuously evaluate emerging test automation tools and approaches.

QA Automation Engineer – JavaScript

Performance Marketing

• Own the programmatic display strategy across awareness, consideration, and demand programs, including video activation across channels such as YouTube and Connected TV
• Plan, launch, and manage campaigns across Demand Side Platforms (e.g., DV360, Google Adwords, YouTube), including audience strategy, inventory selection and media mix decisions
• Define and execute media buy strategy for priority trade publications, including site selection, sponsorships, high-impact placements, and contextual alignment
• Own the paid media budget, including planning, allocation, forecasting, pacing, and performance-based reallocation
• Develop and continuously refine targeting strategies (first- and third-party data, contextual, intent, ABM, retargeting) across display, trade media, and video environments
• Support and guide display and video media strategy across regions, ensuring consistency in approach while allowing for local nuance
• Define and execute media buy strategy for priority trade publications, as well as video placements across YouTube and Connected TV
• Lead negotiations with publishers, platforms, and vendors to maximize value, audience quality, and performance within budget constraints
• Leverage ZoomInfo Marketing to support audience strategy, account-based targeting, and activation across programmatic
• Drive ongoing optimization across bids, budgets, pacing, creative rotation, frequency, and reach
• Partner closely with analytics, web, and content teams to ensure strong measurement, attribution, landing-page performance and lead conversion
• Translate performance data into clear insights and recommendations for stakeholders—what’s working, what’s not, and what to do next
• Manage agency, vendor and publisher/platform relationships, holding them accountable to transparency, budget discipline, and results
• Stay ahead of industry shifts (privacy, cookies, identity, AI-driven optimization) and proactively evolve the programmatic approach
• Apply strong project management skills to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, ensuring deadlines and business goals are met
• Maintain meticulous attention to detail while managing shifting priorities and ensuring the quality of deliverables.

Paid Media Lead

Accountant

• Support global income tax provision processes through the preparation of tax workpapers and supporting schedules
• Contribute to domestic and international income tax compliance, including coordination of filings and payments
• Monitor, reconcile, and maintain tax-related general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Perform tax research on evolving U.S. and international tax legislation and assess impacts to the business
• Partner with international accounting teams and external tax advisors to support local tax provisions and compliance
• Assist with income tax audits by gathering documentation and supporting timely responses to audit inquiries
• Contribute to direct tax initiatives, process improvements, and the effective use of tax technology solutions

Global Tax Accountant

• Carry out layout feasibility studies on various circuit designs in collaboration with senior analog designers.
• Create layouts of assigned analog blocks by adhering to the steps of floor planning, placement and routing.
• Conduct thorough verification checks such as DRC, ANT, LVS, PERC, EM, IR to ensure the final layout possesses the highest level of quality.
• Investigate new features within the layout tools and processes used for creating layouts.

Senior Analog Layout Engineer

Product Manager

• Serve as a trusted advisor to service provider customers, guiding artificial intelligence adoption, operational transformation, and return on investment using Agentic AI workflows
• Translate customer advisory insights into validated, high-value AI use cases with clear functional and technical requirements
• Own and prioritize the AI Studio product backlog, driving timely delivery of Agentic AI capabilities and pipeline orchestration features
• Convert product strategy and customer needs into detailed user stories and requirements for Engineering and Data Science teams
• Lead cross-functional release execution from concept through launch, ensuring quality, scalability, and customer readiness
• Enable global sales, account, and sales engineering teams through training, playbooks, and technical value positioning
• Champion AI Studio in complex customer engagements, including high-visibility proofs of concept

Program Manager

• Lead cross‑functional teams through Ciena’s new product introduction and lifecycle management processes
• Coordinate release plans that deliver committed scope on schedule and with high quality
• Mitigate risk by developing and executing comprehensive risk‑management plans
• Manage project schedules, scope, quality, and cost, ensuring transparent reporting to stakeholders
• Identify performance issues and guide the team through recovery planning and execution
• Maintain centralized project documentation and ensure data accuracy in project‑status systems
• Support early customer engagements by coordinating deliverables and resolving pre‑release issues

Junior Product Life Cycle Program Manager

Manager

• Drive product strategy and roadmap execution for SDN controller platform applications, with a focus on network planning, operations, and optimization capabilities.
• Translate customer needs, market insights, and technology trends into clear, prioritized product requirements.
• Lead initiatives across Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) and Network Digital Twin technologies to improve operational efficiency and accuracy.
• Partner closely with R&D, Hardware, Navigator development, sales, and support teams to deliver differentiated, high-quality software releases.
• Enable successful go-to-market execution through customer engagement, sales training, and technical presentations.
• Represent the product line externally at industry events while maintaining deep awareness of competitive dynamics and emerging trends.
• Use product performance metrics and customer feedback to continuously refine features and user experience.

Product Line Manager – Network Management Applications

Director

• Develop and execute global category sourcing strategies for optical components and sub-systems
• Lead supplier performance management across cost, quality, delivery, and responsiveness
• Own commercial negotiations and contracting strategies, including pricing and capacity commitments
• Partner with Research and Development and Product Management to ensure supplier qualification
• Deliver annual cost reduction targets through cost modeling and benchmarking
• Identify and mitigate supply chain risk related to sourcing and capacity constraints
• Lead cross-functional shortage and allocation response when demand exceeds supply

Director, Commodity Management – Optical Components and Systems

• Lead and deliver one or more complex services projects across customer networks, ensuring scope, quality, schedule, and cost commitments are achieved
• Provide full account‑level leadership for the Services Project Management team responsible for customer implementations
• Drive achievement of services target margins through effective planning, execution, and financial oversight, supporting accurate revenue recognition
• Analyze project proposals to determine timelines, funding constraints, delivery approaches, and resource requirements
• Establish and manage project plans, milestones, deliverables, and communication strategies across all project phases
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks while clearly communicating status, challenges, and resolutions to stakeholders and management
• Collaborate across Ciena teams and customer operations, including Sales, Bid Management, Service Delivery, and Finance, to ensure delivery and financial objectives are met