When you join Verizon You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life. What you'll be doing... As a Lead member of the Network Planning Technology Standards team, you will be responsible for supporting the RAN Spectrum and Radio Frequency (RAN) network design from a Standards perspective for Radio performance and protocol aspects. Ensuring 4G, 5G and Next Gen network Standards are defined and satisfy feature requirements and performance objectives. You will also be responsible for technology analysis and driving Verizon priorities, strategic interests and objectives - analyzing, designing, presenting and defending Spectrum requirements and testing procedures. The RAN architecture will help deliver demanding ultra-low latency, massive MTC connections and high throughput performance requirements to meet customer experience. Therefore, you will be adept at developing relationships with external parties and influencing direction in industry bodies. Serving as a 3GPP RAN Spectrum domain expert, this role will serve as an influential 3GPP Delegate supporting cross-workgroup coordination with other delegates and SMEs to represent Verizon interests at the Plenary TSGs as needed. Providing technical competence, recognition and influence with external contacts to ensure agreements and prioritized technical contributions are ratified. Holistically driving requirements and contributions to perform simulations and derive the transmission requirements and reception parameters, Radio Resource Management (RRM), and for channel demodulation and Channel State Information (CSI) reporting. Define the requirements and test procedures that will be used to verify them for Base Station, Repeater, Relay and Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB). In addition, Over-the-Air (OTA) requirements and testing methods for both Base Station and User Equipment. Evaluating and authoring 3GPP technical contributions and driving Verizon positions and alignment with operators and vendors. Contributing on a Global Scale - The RAN4 WG works on the highest volume of contributions (over 2,500 per meeting) of all 3GPP Working Groups with these domain experts driving the technology discussions which includes interacting and negotiating with global partners and competitors equally in a supplier-led environment while navigating geo-political influences and competitive strategies and tactics. Supporting the development of a 1-5 year technology strategic view for Band combos, Carrier Aggregation, Satellite Interop (non-terrestrial Network - NTN), and Power classes including effectively characterizing and summarizing the technical direction of industry activity to inform various stakeholders and leadership (formally and ad hoc). Demonstrating excellent working and technical relationships with Network Planning, Device Technology, Network Operations Teams, Data Performance, System Performance, and Engineering and Operations. Serving as a mentor and guide to other delegates and SMEs to increase technical competency and knowledge of navigating the Standards process. Independently managing complex technical projects, including forming any leading industry standard meeting and forum governance support, while possessing the technical depth to assess start-up companies and incumbent solutions. Influencing the Spectrum-related Standards work and Indust