Lead Edge Platform Product Owner

Lumen; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 109,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a highly experienced Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and Edge Infrastructure capabilities across edge compute, networking, storage, and cloud services. You will translate needs into clear technical requirements and measurable outcomes for engineering teams.

Partnering across PM, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations, Sales, and Customer Experience, you will set priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and drive release value

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 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 the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and Edge Infrastructure capabilities.
• Translate customer needs and architectural direction into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize backlog based on value, risk, dependencies, capacity, and strategic alignment.
• Lead Agile delivery, set priorities, and ensure release readiness and stakeholder alignment.
• Define and track product success measures such as adoption, reliability, and time to value.

Skills

Technical product ownership

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Edge computing knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git workflows

Job description

Lumen is seeking a highly experienced Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and Edge Infrastructure capabilities across edge compute, networking, storage, and cloud services. You will translate needs into clear technical requirements and measurable outcomes for engineering teams.

Partnering across PM, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations, Sales, and Customer Experience, you will set priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and drive release value