Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.
Why we need this role
The Global Infrastructure Product Director is accountable for the end-to-end global strategy, commercial performance, and governance of Colt’s infrastructure portfolio. The role maximises the long-term value of passive infrastructure assets (ducts, fibre, routes, landing points) by defining scalable products, enabling anchor tenancy, and ensuring disciplined global execution. This is leadership role be operating at an executive level, balancing capital efficiency, customer concentration risk, and network optionality in a multi-billion-pound infrastructure environment.
What you will do
Global Product Strategy
1. Define and maintain a single global dark fibre product framework, including:
2. Product variants, fibre units, and route classifications
3. IRU and lease structures (10–25 years)
4. Global handover, demarcation, and access standards
5. Ensure product consistency while enabling compliant regional execution
6. Own the global product roadmap aligned to network build and overbuild strategy
Commercial Ownership & Value Creation
7. Set global pricing principles, valuation models, and deal guardrails
8. Balance: Anchor tenancy vs long-term optionality
9. Own governance for non-standard, high-value global contracts
10. Partner with Finance to ensure disciplined capital recovery and return metrics
Global Customer & Market Strategy
11. Lead product positioning for Hyperscalers, Tier-1 carriers and international ISPs & data centre platforms and cloud on-ramps
12. Enable seamless cross-border dark fibre propositions
13. Ensure route diversity, resilience, and service definitions are globally coherent
Network & Infrastructure Influence
14. Shape upstream network decisions, including: Fibre count standards and cable architecture, duct utilisation and reserve policy, route diversity and protection strategies
15. Ensure dark fibre product requirements are embedded before construction
Governance, Risk & Regulation
16. Define global policies covering: Asset protection and exhaustion risk, customer concentration and hyperscaler exposure
17. Open access and regulatory compliance
18. Act as senior escalation point for regulatory, contractual, and strategic risk
Leadership & Operating Model
19. Lead a federated global product organisation
20. Chair product and deal governance forums
21. Provide thought leadership across Commercial, Network, Legal, and Regulatory teams
22. Develop future leaders in infrastructure product management
What we’re looking for
Must haves: Leadership experience in fixed-line telecoms or digital infrastructure Deep expertise in:
23. Dark fibre, duct, and passive network economics
24. Wholesale and hyperscaler contracting
25. Proven track record managing £10m–£100m+ strategic deals
26. Strong executive presence with Board, regulators, and global customers
Might haves:
27. Multi-region product or commercial leadership
28. Experience in infrastructure funds or asset-heavy environments
29. Exposure to regulated and open-access markets
What we offer you:
Looking to make a mark?
At Colt, you’ll make a difference. Because around here, we empower people. We don’t tell you what to do.
Instead, we employ people we trust, who come together across the globe to create intelligent solutions.
Our global teams are full of ambitious, driven people, all working together towards one shared purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of our customers wherever, whenever and however they want.
We give our people the opportunity to inspire and lead teams, and work on projects that connect people, cities, businesses, and ideas. We want you to help us change the world, for the better.
Diversity and inclusion
30. Inclusion and valuing diversity of thought and experience are at the heart of our culture here at Colt. From day one, you’ll be encouraged to be yourself because we believe that’s what helps our people to thrive. We welcome people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or place of birth.
Most recently we have:
31. Signed the UN Women Empowerment Principles which guide our Gender Action Plan
32. Trained 60 (and growing) Colties to be Mental Health First Aiders