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Telecom Manager
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Telecom Manager
Patriot Growth Insurance Services | United States | Remote | Full-Time
Why This Role Matters
As Telecom Manager, you'll play a critical role in modernizing and scaling telecommunications services across a rapidly growing organization. This position leads the successful delivery of a major RingCentral migration while overseeing the transition of telecom circuits across approximately 170 independent agencies to a managed services provider.
You'll partner closely with agency stakeholders, telecommunications carriers, managed service providers, project managers, and internal technology teams to ensure seamless migrations, reliable operations, and exceptional end-user experiences. Your leadership will directly influence business continuity, operational efficiency, cost optimization, and the long-term success of Patriot's telecom strategy.
Work Arrangement: Remote-first role with occasional travel. Scheduled evening and weekend work is required to support migration activities and production cutovers.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Lead the execution of enterprise telecommunications initiatives, including RingCentral migration activities, circuit transitions, carrier coordination, and ongoing telecom operations.
- Manage the migration of telecom circuits across approximately 170 independent agencies, ensuring smooth planning, communication, implementation, and post-cutover support.
- Coordinate site readiness assessments, number porting, user migration planning, cutovers, issue resolution, and stabilization efforts to minimize business disruption.
- Govern relationships with telecom vendors and managed services providers, ensuring strong service delivery, contract compliance, escalation management, and performance outcomes.
- Standardize telecom inventories, operational controls, migration runbooks, service catalogs, and lifecycle processes to improve scalability and consistency.
- Partner with Finance, Procurement, Infrastructure, Security, Agency Operations, and the PMO to improve cost visibility, resource planning, migration readiness, and operational performance.
Who You Are
- A proactive problem solver who remains calm and organized while managing complex migration activities and competing priorities.
- Skilled at building productive relationships across technical teams, agency leadership, external vendors, carriers, and managed services partners.
- Comfortable balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution and operational support.
- Highly organized with strong project coordination, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
- A collaborative leader who can effectively manage contractors, vendors, and cross-functional workstreams.
- Detail-oriented and process-driven, with a focus on accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Adaptable and capable of managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced, acquisition-driven environment.
What You Bring
Day One:
- 7+ years of experience in telecom operations, voice platforms, carrier management, network services, telecommunications migrations, or related disciplines.
- 3+ years of experience managing telecom vendors, carrier relationships, managed services providers, enterprise circuit portfolios, or UCaaS migrations.
- Experience managing telecom circuit inventories and lifecycle activities, including orders, disconnects, billing, escalations, and carrier coordination.
- Experience planning and executing RingCentral or similar UCaaS platform migrations, including number porting, cutover execution, and post-migration support.
- Strong knowledge of telecom carrier services, circuit technologies, voice service delivery, telecom lifecycle governance, and operational support models.
- Experience managing managed services provider performance, service delivery, vendor governance, SLAs, and contract adherence.
- Understanding of budgeting, forecasting, invoice review, cost controls, savings identification, and telecom expense optimization practices.
- Experience leading enterprise migration initiatives, coordinating multiple stakeholders, managing risks and dependencies, and supporting business continuity requirements.
- Strong troubleshooting and escalation management experience related to telephony, connectivity, call quality, circuit, and user experience issues.
- Experience coordinating after-hours production cutovers and migration activities.
- Excellent communication, documentation, planning, and executive reporting skills.
- Ability to manage at least one contractor supporting telecom migration and operational activities.
Valuable Additions:
- Experience with RingCentral and other leading UCaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with telecom inventory management tools, carrier portals, and managed network services operating models.
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations, or rebranding initiatives.
- Experience partnering closely with a PMO on resource planning, dependency management, governance routines, and executive reporting.
- Insurance industry experience.
- Experience supporting telecom cost reviews, invoice validation, disconnect cleanup, dispute resolution, and savings initiatives.
Real Benefits for Real Life
At Patriot, great benefits mean more than coverage; they mean being there through every stage of life: your health, your family, your financial future, or simply time to recharge. Whether you're working or not, life doesn't stop. Neither should your benefits.
Highlights Include:
- Multiple medical plan options, with preventive care covered at 100%
- Free virtual medical and mental healthcare for employees and their families, plus a dedicated healthcare concierge to help you navigate benefits, compare prescription costs, and make more confident, personalized care decisions
- Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Paid parental leave
- Personalized PTO that lets you take time away when you need it, without traditional accruals, plus separate sick leave
- Competitive 401(k) company match to help you build your financial future
- Comprehensive dental and vision coverage
- Employee Assistance Program with confidential mental health, legal, financial, and work-life support
About Patriot Growth Insurance Services
At Patriot, we build our teams around a simple idea: people do their best work when they feel supported as whole people, not just managed as employees. We're invested in your growth, not just your output, and we back that up with a competitive salary and a comprehensive health and welfare program that extends to your family and domestic partners too, because who you're building a life with matters to us as much as the work you do.
Founded in 2019, Patriot is a growth-focused national insurance services firm that partners with employee benefits and property and casualty agencies across the United States. We're currently ranked the 25th-largest broker in the U.S. by Business Insurance and were named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. With over 2,100 employees operating in 150+ locations across more than 45 states, our collaborative model gives every person and every agency the resources and support they need to grow, while each agency keeps its own identity, culture, and way of doing business. That growth has never been about numbers alone, it's about the people behind them.
Patriot Growth Insurance Services is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. Patriot makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, read through our EEO and DE&I Policy located on our website at www.patriotgis.com.
Pay Range: Posted below*
*Any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with applicable state pay transparency laws, considering relevant experience, education, certifications, and seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. There is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis. Roles may also be eligible for a supplemental compensation, such as performance-based bonus, commission, or equity. Specific eligibility will be discussed with Talent Acquisition team.
Patriot Growth Insurance Services offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with company match; personalized time off and company paid holidays.
Pay Range
$130,000 - $150,000 USD
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