Manager, Network Investments

Lensa is the leading career site for job seekers at every stage of their career. Our client, META, is seeking professionals in Atlanta, GA. Apply via Lensa today!

Summary

Connecting the world requires alternative approaches to building and deploying telecom network infrastructure. Through direct engagement with partners around the world, the Network Investments Team seeks to foster the development of the infrastructure needed to support Meta’s AI and family of applications. This is a great opportunity for someone who’s passionate about building large-scale networks that have social impact and a desire to leverage your product development and analytics skill sets to expand into the next phase of network development. As a Network Investments - Manager, you will work closely with internal planning and engineering partners to develop long-term strategy and execution plans, as well as externally with vendors to drive critical infrastructure strategies and acquisitions.

Required Skills

Manager, Network Investments Responsibilities:

• Drive long-term network acquisition strategies for North America.
• Manage and grow a team of network acquisition ICs, and participate in their career development.
• Accelerate the team's efficiency by collaborating with the systems development, planning, engineering, and deployment teams to increase tooling/automation and refine processes.
• Leads delivery of team goals in alignment with company objectives, through metrics, clear prioritization and accountability management.
• Work with finance teams to forecast capital and operational expenditures for network expansion.
• Provide direction and enable ICs to drive strategic acquisition strategy with vendors, and the team.
• Drive organization team structure and establish clear lines of accountability across initiatives.
• Develop collaboration across key partner teams (Engineering, Planning, Finance, Legal and Deployment).
• Strategic execution and problem solving.
• Measurement and operational delivery.
• Capacity to travel up to 30% of time.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in engineering related field or equivalent experience.
• 15 years of experience working within a network supply chain environment for an operator, hyperscaler, or dark fiber provider.
• 5 years experience as a people manager.
• Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining top performing teams.
• Understanding of the dark fiber market, commercial, and contractual requirements.
• Experience developing and negotiating multi year strategic sourcing plans.
• Effective communication with experience presenting and delivering content to leadership teams.
• Organizational leadership/team development.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Managing teams with dark fiber commercial execution experience.
• Executive level relationships across the North America dark fiber providers.
• Proven track record of building processes and tools to scale a team’s efficiency across capacity demand pillars.
• P&L responsibility, experience with producing financial reports/insights, budget planning and financial management.
• Software/Product Development experience as developer and/or manager.
  
  

Public Compensation

$191,000/year to $271,000/year bonus equity benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.