Nokia: Senior Manager, Ad Funded Message Service (Mountain View, Boston (Burlington)

This individual will have responsibility for driving the business modeling, product definition, and overall cross divisional relationships within Nokia for regarding mobile advertising and messaging. This candidate will be strong at business modeling and have experience new mobile advertising or traditional online advertising businesses. The role will require working with the messaging product management team to define platform and solution requirements for ad enabled messaging. Additionally, the candidate will focus on working closely with operators to define the operator value proposition.  This leader will also champion the initial operator piloting for this service.  This postion is also responsible for leading all concept testing, market research and device division requirements necessary to ensure this will be an accepted component of the Nokia service portfolio.

Main Responsibilities:
Ensures business modeling, service definition, mobile advertising integration, carrier feasibility and customer adoption for the advertising supported messaging initiative.  Primary metrics for evaluation will be on completeness of P&L and acceptance of full value chain business agreements for the solution offer. 

Scope:
Senior individual contributor.  Will work with a global team cross functionally to drive the definition, creation and adoption of this service. 

Requirements:
Expert in business development as well as product/solution management.  Experience in mobile solutions is necessary. MBA preferred.

Environment:
Highly independent and self directed. Develops plans, measures effectiveness. Assesses customer relationships and service levels. Can develop and implement complex and innovative concepts. Problems require searching and selecting. Anticipates problems, seeks opportunities. Models creative and innovative work methods. High collegial interaction

Division within Nokia
Services & Software division within Nokia will play a leading role in shaping Nokia’s growth and transformation to an Internet company generating new revenue streams based on software and services. It will be poised to fundamentally change the perception of Nokia in the market. The Services & Software Unit’s portfolio of services creates opportunities for people to connect to each other and the things that matter to them. The developed services and software can be used on PC, online or on mobile device, they can be distributed independently or embedded in devices, they can be delivered to both Nokia and to non-Nokia devices and they can be monetized through multiple business models: transaction, subscription, and/or advertising.

Contact information:
Mark Thomas
Director, Nokia/Ovi Messaging
mark.thomas@nokia.com