Lead Technical Product Owner, Edge & AI Infrastructure

Lumen; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 109,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Lumen seeks a Lead Technical Product Owner to own vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and related infrastructure. You will translate needs into epics, maintain backlogs, and drive outcomes across engineering and product teams.

You will partner with Architecture, Security, Operations, Sales, and Customer Experience to align on priorities, ensure release readiness, and measure success. Strong Agile coaching is expected.

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 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.
• 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.

Skills

Lead product ownership

Roadmap development

Backlog management

Agile coaching

PI Planning

Product discovery

Stakeholder management

Edge computing

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT/Telecommunications/Business or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git-based workflows

Modern product analytics

Job description

Lumen seeks a Lead Technical Product Owner to own vision, roadmap, and backlog for Edge Fabric and related infrastructure. You will translate needs into epics, maintain backlogs, and drive outcomes across engineering and product teams.

You will partner with Architecture, Security, Operations, Sales, and Customer Experience to align on priorities, ensure release readiness, and measure success. Strong Agile coaching is expected.