Lead Product Owner

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

At Lumen, you'll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what's next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.

This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you're ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI-ready connectivity, join us today.

The Role

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.

The 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 translate complex technical information into clear recommendations and decision points

• 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 reinforce 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

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Business, or equivalent experience.