Manager, Network Investments

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.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 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

• 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.

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. About Meta Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
$191,000/year to $271,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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