Lead Edge Platform Product Owner

Lumen; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 104,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen seeks a Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and Edge Infrastructure. You will translate customer needs and architectural requirements into actionable epics and user stories for engineering teams, driving high‑value outcomes across edge compute, networking, storage, and cloud platforms.

You will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations, Sales, and Customer Experience to set priorities, coach teams in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 7+ years in technical product ownership, product management, software engineering, platform engineering, cloud, or networking roles.
• 5+ years serving in a product leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the product vision, value proposition, and backlog for Edge Fabric capabilities.
• Translate customer needs, market opportunities, and architectural direction into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and prioritize the backlog based on value, risk, dependencies, capacity, and alignment.
• Make timely product decisions and clarify scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs for engineering teams.
• Define and track product success measures including adoption, reliability, and time to value.
• Develop and maintain roadmaps for Edge Fabric platforms, services, APIs, and infrastructure capabilities.
• Represent stakeholder needs across discovery, design, development, validation, launch, and lifecycle management.

Skills

Product discovery

Roadmap development

Backlog prioritization

Agile coaching

Executive communication

Agile ceremonies

Cross-functional leadership

Agile Release Trains

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Telecommunications, Business, or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git-based workflows

Product analytics / telemetry tools

Job description

Lumen seeks a Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and Edge Infrastructure. You will translate customer needs and architectural requirements into actionable epics and user stories for engineering teams, driving high‑value outcomes across edge compute, networking, storage, and cloud platforms.

You will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations, Sales, and Customer Experience to set priorities, coach teams in