Lead Product Manager, Innovation – New Frontiers

Lowe's Companies, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental and Vision insurance

401(k) Retirement account with company

Employee Assistance Program

Lowe's Associate Discount

Job summary

Lowe’s Innovation Labs in Kirkland, WA seeks a Lead Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for large, cross-functional products. You will manage backlogs, prioritize work, and drive product decisions based on customer and stakeholder needs.

You will partner with engineering and design to translate requirements into actionable roadmaps, hypotheses, and experiments, while enabling go-to-market strategy and executive-level storytelling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, design or related field required.
• 7+ years of experience across product management, marketing, engineering, R&D, or business analysis.
• Experience defining product direction, roadmaps, hypotheses, and prioritization in ambiguous environments.
• Experience cross-functional collaboration with engineering and design teams.
• Ability to translate complex concepts into clear product strategies and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision, strategy, and investment thesis for the New Frontiers portfolio.
• Own discovery and product development for defined New Frontiers initiatives.
• Identify customer and business problems worth solving through research and market signals.
• Translate technical capabilities into clear product visions, requirements, roadmaps, and narratives.
• Lead structured discovery and experiments in ambiguous spaces with credible tests.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Roadmap development

Strategic thinking

Customer research

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, design

Job description

Innovate in Kirkland

This position is based at our Innovation Labs headquarters in Kirkland, Washington. Our facility features cutting-edge technology, private research and development spaces housing groundbreaking products, and open floor plans designed to foster collaboration and creativity—all to enhance your work experience.

Your Impact

The Lead Product Manager owns the vision and strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for large, cross-functional and/or highly complex products that often span multiple product groups. Responsibilities include defining the roadmap as well as planning and managing products and product features through the product development process. This role manages the product backlogs for one or more product groups while prioritizing work and making product-related decisions based on the needs and expectations of customers and stakeholders. This role identifies and manages projects with a high level of autonomy. The Lead Product Manager manages multiple product designs at any given time while partnering closely with the business to understand challenges and develop the go-to-market strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision, strategy, and investment thesis for the New Frontiers portfolio, connecting disruptive technology shifts to meaningful customer, associate, and enterprise opportunities.
• Own discovery and product development for defined New Frontiers initiatives, connecting emerging technology shifts to meaningful customer, associate, and enterprise opportunities.
• Identify customer and business problems worth solving for DIY and Pro customers through customer research, associate feedback, market signals, and operational insight.
• Translate complex technical capabilities into clear product visions, use cases, experience principles, requirements, roadmaps, and decision-ready narratives.
• Lead structured discovery, applied R&D, and experimentation in ambiguous problem spaces; design credible tests that reduce strategic uncertainty.
• Define hypotheses, learning agendas, success criteria, and phase-appropriate outcomes for explorations, proofs of concept, pilots, and incubations.
• Partner closely with engineering and design to make informed tradeoffs among customer value, technical feasibility, operational viability, speed, and risk.
• Develop and maintain initiative-level roadmaps, OKRs, metrics, and documentation that communicate near-term learning and potential long-term value.
• Synthesize experiment results and make recommendations to iterate, invest, partner, scale, pause, or sunset opportunities.
• Build productive relationships with partners across Technology, Stores, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Digital Commerce, and other functions to accelerate learning and create paths to adoption.
• Support engagement with external partners, including startups, researchers, universities, venture firms, and technology companies.
• Navigate security, legal, architecture, governance, and operational constraints while maintaining momentum and rigor.
• Create clear executive-ready narratives, demos, and artifacts that explain what Lowe’s is learning, why it matters, and what decisions are needed.
• Contribute to strong product-management practices across Labs and provide informal mentorship to product peers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, design, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 7+ years of experience across two of the following: product management, product marketing, applied engineering, software or hardware development, R&D, entrepreneurship, or business analysis.
• Demonstrated experience defining product direction, roadmaps, hypotheses, and prioritization tradeoffs in ambiguous environments.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering and design teams.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into clear, customer-focused product strategies, requirements, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience creating or evaluating prototypes, proofs of concept, pilots, or experiments.
• Strong customer research, market analysis, and quantitative and qualitative decision-making skills.
• Strong written, verbal, storytelling, and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied engineering expertise in one or more relevant frontier domains, with Physical AI, robotics, embodied AI, computer vision, autonomous systems, or world-model development strongly preferred.
• Experience building or bringing to market hardware-software systems, robotics platforms, AI-enabled products, spatial computing experiences, advanced manufacturing technologies, or other emerging-technology solutions.
• Experience in a corporate innovation lab, startup, research organization, venture-backed company, or similarly high-ambiguity environment.
• Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly with engineers on architecture, technical constraints, system behavior, experimentation design, and scale-readiness tradeoffs.
• Experience working directly with customers, field teams, stores, job sites, or operational environments to validate real-world needs and constraints.
• Experience managing external technology partners, vendors, research collaborators, or strategic alliances.
• Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, human-computer interaction, business, or a related field.
• CSPO or comparable product-management certification.

Pay Range: $111,600.00 - $212,000.00 annually
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits .

Associate Benefits ( https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/joining-our-team )

• Working at one of the largest retail companies has its perks. We offer exceptional benefits and wellness programs for eligible full-time and part-time associates, tailored for many different lifestyles. Our benefits range from health, vision and dental insurance to paid vacation, tuition assistance and parental and family-building benefits. Plus, we offer learning and development opportunities to help our associates grow their skills and achieve their goals.
• Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• Paid time off based on role, tenure, and locality, including vacation, holidays, sick and volunteer time
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• 401(k) Retirement account with company match
• Employee Assistance Program with concierge, work/life services and no-cost counseling for all kinds of needs
• Education support programs, including tuition assistance and trade skills scholarships
• Business Travel Accident insurance
• Maternity and Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Lowe's Associate Discount and broad discount platform
• Other discretionary benefits (based on eligibility) include annual bonuses, enrollment in Lowe's Employee Stock Purchase Plan and/or deferred compensation plan, and grant awards

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than$86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe’s is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based inMooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com .

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.