Lead Product Owner - Edge

Lumen; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 104,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life benefits

Bonus structure details

Job summary

Lumen seeks a Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and Edge Infrastructure capabilities across edge compute, networking, storage, orchestration, and cloud platform services.

You will translate customer and architectural needs into clear requirements, lead Agile delivery, and collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Sales to ensure release value and success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, 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 or similar leadership role.
• Demonstrated ability to define product strategy and manage complex backlogs across multiple teams.
• Experience within telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, edge computing, networking, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the product vision and roadmap for Edge Fabric capabilities.
• Translate needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and prioritize the backlog based on value, risk, and dependencies.
• Make timely product decisions and clarify scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs for teams.
• Define and track product success metrics like adoption, reliability, and time to value.

Skills

Edge computing

Distributed architectures

Virtualized infrastructure

Networking

Storage

APIs

Cloud services

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/ENG/IT/Telecommunications/Business

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git-based workflows

Product analytics/telemetry tools

Job description

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.

This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI‑ready connectivity, join us today.

The Role

Lumen is seeking a highly experienced Lead Technical Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for strategic 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 Customer Experience, this leader sets product priorities, resolves tradeoffs, and ensures release value and readiness. The role communicates strategy, investment priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes to executives while providing hands‑on Agile coaching, facilitating effective delivery practices, removing impediments, and keeping teams aligned to sprint goals and high‑value outcomes.

The Main Responsibilities

Product Vision Strategy & Ownership

• 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

Technical Product Definition & Delivery

• 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

Stakeholder Alignment & Product Excellence

• 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 translate complex technical information into clear recommendations and decision points

• 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 effective collaboration and a healthy sustainable delivery process

• Facilitate daily standups sprint planning reviews retrospectives backlog refinement and other Agile ceremonies reinforce clear sprint goals and accountable follow through

• Identify and remove delivery impediments coordinate resolution of cross team dependencies and protect team focus so committed outcomes can be achieved

What We Look For in a Candidate

• 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.

Technical Knowledge & Tools

• Strong knowledge of edge computing, distributed architectures, virtualized and bare-metal infrastructure platforms, networking, storage, APIs, and cloud services

• Expertise in product discovery, roadmap development, backlog prioritization, user-story definition, acceptance criteria, PI Planning, and Agile Release Trains

• Jira

• Confluence

• Git-based development workflows and modern product analytics or telemetry tools

Compensation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges:

$103,711 - $125,281 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, and WY.

$108,896 - $130,195 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI.

$114,082 - $135,109 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.

Learn more about Lumen's:

• Benefits (https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/benefits-statement)

• Bonus Structure

What to Expect Next

Requisition #: 344163

Life at Lumen

Life at Lumen is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI‑focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win.

To learn more about Life at Lumen and how we live the Lumen 8, please visit:

https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/life-at-lumen

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