Lead Edge Platform Product Owner (AI‑Ready Infra)

Lumen; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 104,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

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

As a senior leader, you will partner with Architecture, Security, Operations, and Sales to prioritize value, guide delivery, and coach Agile teams toward

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT/Telecommunications or equivalent.
• 7+ years in technical product ownership, product management, software engineering, platform engineering, cloud, or networking.
• 5+ years serving as a Technical Product Owner or similar leadership role.
• Ability to define strategy, manage backlogs, and lead cross-functional decisions across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience in 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 business priorities into epics features user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize 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.
• Develop and maintain integrated product roadmaps for Edge Fabric platforms services APIs and infrastructure capabilities.
• Define functional and nonfunctional requirements including performance, availability, security, observability, operability, and lifecycle needs.
• Partner with architects and engineering leaders to validate solution options technical feasibility dependencies and implementation tradeoffs.
• Represent stakeholder and customer needs throughout discovery design development validation launch and lifecycle management.
• Accept completed work against defined criteria and ensure release readiness documentation supportability and operational handoff.
• Define and track product success measures such as adoption utilization, reliability, customer experience, time to value and financial impact.
• Lead product planning and refinement activities including PI Planning roadmap reviews demos and release planning.
• Develop and deliver concise executive communications on product strategy, roadmap priorities, investment needs, scope value delivery progress, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and release outcomes.
• Champion automation reliability testing observability security and operational readiness as core product requirements.
• Coach teams and stakeholders in Agile principles and practices promoting continuous improvement.
• Facilitate daily standups sprint planning reviews retrospectives backlog refinement and other Agile ceremonies.

Skills

Technical product ownership

Product management

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Cloud

Networking

Education

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

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git-based development workflows

Job description

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

As a senior leader, you will partner with Architecture, Security, Operations, and Sales to prioritize value, guide delivery, and coach Agile teams toward