Applied R&D Manager
Nokia
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Posted on Dec 1, 2025
Join Nokia as an Applied R&D Manager to lead our US NTAS development team, overseeing product development and support, and ensuring timely, high-quality feature delivery through Mode of Operation (MOO) processes. This role involves close collaboration with global teams, external stakeholders like product managers, quality, and PST, and supporting the Architecture team and customer organizations. You will manage team members at our Naperville site, with an expectation of on-site presence, and play a crucial role in developing training plans for new hires. If you are a visionary leader ready to drive innovation and foster growth in a dynamic, multi-site R&D environment, we invite you to apply.
About Nokia
Join us in creating the technology that helps the world act together.
We are a B2B technology innovation leader, pioneering networks that sense, think and act™, putting the world’s people, machines and devices in sync to create a more sustainable, productive and accessible future.
About the Business Group
In Cloud and Network Services, as Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.
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If you’re interested in this role but don’t meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity.
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Some of our benefits in US:
- Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
- Health and dental benefits
- Short-term disability, and long-term disability
- Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
- Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition Assistance Plan
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program
The above benefits exclude students.
Disclaimer for US/Canada
Nokia Maintains broad annual base salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, and with consideration to internal peer equity. Check the salary ranges in the job info section for this role.
All North America job posts will post for a minimum of 7 calendar days and up to 180 days or until candidate/s identified.
Nokia TAS is a next generation application server, converging the best of breed voice, video and messaging services for the 2G, 3G, 4G, CDMA, WiFi and 5G users of the mobile, fixed and enterprise segments. The configuration, performance and fault management capabilities guarantee an optimized operation, from deployment to maintenance phase. With the open eco-system, the decomposed internal architecture and business logic, Nokia TAS is complements the Programmable Core and is DevOps ready. Nokia TAS is a cloud native containerized SW-only product, deployable on Nokia or 3rd party cloud infrastructure or baremetal.
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Mathematics, or an equivalent qualification, with at least 8–10 years of relevant work experience.
- Strong knowledge of software development, testing, and engineering principles.
- Leading R&D teams experience.
- Good command of English
- Follows MOO (mode of Operation) processes which includes following the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process to deliver features. A large part of the responsibility is working closely with the R&D Leader and Release Train Engineer to slot features into a release.
- Uses knowledge on how the job contributes to the corporate goals and higher level organization goals to increase own effectiveness.
- Able to prioritize work so the team is able to make commitments
- Develop concepts to set the direction of own organizational unit.
- Ensure the team is able to deliver on their R&D commitments and provide regularly updates to the Project Management Team. This means helping serve as the Scrum Master for a portion of the team.
- Often leads functional teams or projects with considerable resource requirements, risk, and complexity, handles day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work.
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