Lead Edge Platform Product Owner

Lumen; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 104,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & life benefits

Bonus structure information

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and infrastructure capabilities. You will translate customer and business needs into clear technical requirements and measurable outcomes for engineering teams.

Collaborating with Product Management, Architecture, and Security, you will set priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and ensure delivery value. You will coach Agile practices and guide teams toward high‑value outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 7+ years in technical product ownership or related roles.
• 5+ years in leadership roles for product teams.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex requirements into actionable roadmaps.
• Experience in telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, edge computing, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the product vision, value proposition, and outcome-based roadmap for Edge Fabric capabilities.
• Translate customer needs, market opportunities, and architectural direction into epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and prioritize the backlog based on value, risk, dependencies, and capacity.
• Make timely product decisions and clarify scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs for engineering teams.
• Define and track product success measures such as adoption, reliability, and time to value.
• Develop and maintain integrated roadmaps for edge platforms, APIs, and infrastructure capabilities.
• Partner with architects and engineering leaders on feasibility, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Represent stakeholder and customer needs through discovery, design, development, and lifecycle management.
• Lead Agile ceremonies and ensure release readiness and handoff with clear documentation.

Skills

Edge computing

Distributed architectures

APIs

Cloud services

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 is seeking a Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and infrastructure capabilities. You will translate customer and business needs into clear technical requirements and measurable outcomes for engineering teams.

Collaborating with Product Management, Architecture, and Security, you will set priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and ensure delivery value. You will coach Agile practices and guide teams toward high‑value outcomes.