[Hiring] Lead Product Owner @Lumen Technologies

Role Description

Lumen is seeking a highly experienced Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for strategic Edge Fabric and Edge Infrastructure capabilities across edge compute, networking, storage, orchestration, and cloud platform services. The role translates customer, business, and architectural needs into clear technical requirements and measurable outcomes for engineering teams.

Partnering across Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations, Sales, and Customer Experience, this leader sets product priorities, resolves tradeoffs, and ensures release value and readiness. The role communicates strategy, investment priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes to executives while providing hands-on Agile coaching, facilitating effective delivery practices, removing impediments, and keeping teams aligned to sprint goals and high-value outcomes.

Main Responsibilities

• Product Vision Strategy & Ownership
  • Own and communicate the product vision value proposition and outcome based roadmap for Edge Fabric capabilities.
  • Translate customer needs, market opportunities, architectural direction, and business priorities into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Maintain and continuously prioritize the product backlog based on value, risk, technical dependencies, capacity, and strategic alignment.
  • Make timely product decisions and clarify scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs for engineering teams and stakeholders.
  • Use AI-assisted product discovery, requirements generation, backlog refinement, test design, and documentation to improve speed and quality.
• Technical Product Definition & Delivery
  • Develop and maintain integrated product roadmaps for Edge Fabric platforms, services, APIs, and infrastructure capabilities.
  • Define functional and nonfunctional requirements including performance, availability, security, observability, operability, and lifecycle needs.
  • Partner with architects and engineering leaders to validate solution options, technical feasibility, dependencies, and implementation tradeoffs.
  • Represent stakeholder and customer needs throughout discovery, design, development, validation, launch, and lifecycle management.
  • Accept completed work against defined criteria and ensure release readiness, documentation, supportability, and operational handoff.
  • Define and track product success measures such as adoption, utilization, reliability, customer experience, time to value, and financial impact.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Product Excellence
  • Lead product planning and refinement activities including PI Planning, roadmap reviews, demos, and release planning.
  • Develop and deliver concise executive communications on product strategy, roadmap priorities, investment needs, scope, value delivery progress, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and release outcomes.
  • Champion automation, reliability, testing, observability, security, and operational readiness as core product requirements.
  • Coach teams and stakeholders in Agile principles and practices, promoting continuous improvement, effective collaboration, and a healthy sustainable delivery process.
  • Facilitate daily standups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and other Agile ceremonies, reinforcing clear sprint goals and accountable follow-through.
  • Identify and remove delivery impediments, coordinate resolution of cross-team dependencies, and protect team focus so committed outcomes can be achieved.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Business, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in technical product ownership, product management, software engineering, platform engineering, cloud, or networking roles.
• 5+ years serving as a Technical Product Owner, Product Manager, Platform Product Owner, or similar product leadership role.
• Demonstrated ability to define product strategy, manage complex technical backlogs, and lead cross-functional decision-making across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience within telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, edge computing, networking, or distributed systems.

Technical Knowledge & Tools

• Strong knowledge of edge computing, distributed architectures, virtualized and bare-metal infrastructure platforms, networking, storage, APIs, and cloud services.
• Expertise in product discovery, roadmap development, backlog prioritization, user-story definition, acceptance criteria, PI Planning, and Agile Release Trains.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Git-based development workflows, and modern product analytics or telemetry tools.

Compensation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

• $103,711 - $125,281 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, and WY.
• $108,896 - $130,195 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI.
• $114,082 - $135,109 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

Benefits

• Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing.