Lead Edge Platform Product Owner

Lumen; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 104,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a highly experienced Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for 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

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Lead product ownership

Agile coaching

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Education

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

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git-based workflows

Job description

Lumen is seeking a highly experienced Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for 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