AI Program and Product Management Leader

Lumentum Operations LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumentum is seeking an AI Product Management & Operations leader to govern the intake, prioritization, and delivery of AI use cases across the company. You will translate business demand into a clear roadmap, coordinate execution with delivery teams, monitor timelines and risks, and report progress and impact to leadership.

The role emphasizes strategic influence, governance, and measurable value delivery in a global, matrixed organization with a focus on enterprise AI initiatives across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred in engineering, CS, business, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in transformation, strategy, program management, digital innovation, or AI-adjacent leadership.
• Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives in a global, matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage the portfolio of AI products and initiatives across functions, including intake, assessment, prioritization, sequencing, and status tracking.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify high-value AI use cases and clarify goals, outcomes, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Coordinate with internal engineering, data, analytics, product, and operations teams to move initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Establish and run operating cadences for AI portfolio reviews, delivery check-ins, risk escalation, and executive reporting.
• Track milestones, schedules, resource dependencies, and delivery risks across multiple AI programs and workstreams.
• Ensure stakeholders are informed on progress, blockers, business value, adoption readiness, and realized impact.
• Support portfolio governance processes, intake frameworks, prioritization criteria, and decision-making mechanisms.
• Help define and monitor KPIs related to AI delivery, business adoption, value realization, and portfolio health.
• Coordinate with external vendors, implementation partners, and other third parties as needed.
• Drive follow-through across teams to ensure commitments are met and AI initiatives stay on time and aligned to business priorities.
• Support change management and operational readiness activities to improve adoption of AI solutions across the enterprise.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

AI understanding

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Role Overview

Lumentum is seeking an AI Product Management & Operations leader to help drive our enterprise AI transformation. This role will coordinate across business stakeholders, product owners, data and engineering teams, and external partners to ensure AI initiatives are prioritized well, executed effectively, and delivered on schedule. The ideal candidate is highly organized, cross-functional, business-oriented, and comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy, execution, and stakeholder communication.

Role Summary

The AI Product Management & Operations leader will manage the intake, prioritization, tracking, and operational governance of AI use cases across the organization. This person will help translate business demand into a clear portfolio roadmap, coordinate execution with internal delivery teams, monitor timelines and risks, and communicate progress, value, and outcomes to leadership and stakeholders. This is a business and operational leadership role focused on alignment, delivery, and measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the portfolio of AI products and initiatives across functions, including intake, assessment, prioritization, sequencing, and status tracking.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify high-value AI use cases and clarify goals, expected outcomes, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Coordinate closely with internal engineering, data, analytics, product, and operational teams to move initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Establish and run operating cadences for AI portfolio reviews, delivery check-ins, risk escalation, and executive reporting.
• Track milestones, schedules, resource dependencies, and delivery risks across multiple AI programs and workstreams.
• Ensure stakeholders are informed on progress, blockers, business value, adoption readiness, and realized impact.
• Support development of portfolio governance processes, intake frameworks, prioritization criteria, and decision-making mechanisms.
• Help define and monitor KPIs related to AI delivery, business adoption, value realization, and portfolio health.
• Coordinate with external vendors, implementation partners, and other third parties as needed.
• Drive follow-through across teams to ensure commitments are met and AI initiatives stay on time and aligned to business priorities.
• Support change management and operational readiness activities to improve adoption of AI solutions across the enterprise.
• Help build AI literacy across the organization through presentations, workshops, and enablement materials.
• Stay current with leading AI tools, platforms, and workflows, and actively evaluate their relevance to Lumentum.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred in a relevant field such as engineering, computer science, business, operations, or related discipline.
• 15+ years of experience in transformation, strategy, program management, digital innovation, or AI-adjacent leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives in a global, matrixed organization.
• Strong understanding of AI, including generative AI, enterprise AI, automation, data-driven workflows, and related technologies.
• Experience working in manufacturing, industrial, engineering, or similarly complex operational environments is strongly preferred.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfort with AI tools and the ability to evaluate and prototype ideas.

Preferred Attributes

• Modern, transformation-oriented mindset with a bias toward action and measurable business impact.
• Able to operate effectively in ambiguity and create structure where needed.
• Highly collaborative, credible with executives, and effective across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong influence skills and the ability to drive alignment without direct authority.
• Passion for AI as a business enabler and organizational accelerator.

Pay Range

Pay Range: P95-USA-1 :$193,050.00 - $275,800.00

Disclaimer

Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum a best place to work for our employees, we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages, which may include annual bonus, commission for certain sales roles, equity, and health and welfare benefits.

Lumentum is illuminating the networks of tomorrow with advanced photonic technologies that enable AI, data centers, telecom, industrial, and sensing applications. As AI accelerates the global demand for bandwidth and energy efficiency, we deliver the building blocks that keep data moving reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale. Our optical products support AI and compute infrastructure, cloud and DCI environments, metro and long-haul networks, while our lasers drive breakthroughs in precision manufacturing and sensing. For nearly five decades, Lumentum has been at the intersection of light and innovation. What began as a vision with JDS Uniphase to harness the power of photonics has evolved into a global force driving the communication infrastructure of tomorrow. At Lumentum, we're building more than a business—we're building a team of passionate innovators whose drive to collaborate, create, and connect the world fuels everything we do. We are part of the AI technology revolution and we are illuminating the path forward. Headquartered in San Jose, California, we operate worldwide through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations.