Lead Technical Product Owner - Edge & AI Platform

Lumen; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 109,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Collaborating across PM, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations, Sales and CX, you will set priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and ensure release value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering/IT/Telecommunications/Business.
• 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.
• Proven ability to define product strategy, manage complex backlogs, and lead cross-functional decisions.
• Experience in telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, edge computing, networking, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the Edge Fabric product vision, value, and backlog.
• Translate needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and prioritize the backlog based on value, risk, deps, capacity, and alignment.
• Make timely product decisions and clarify scope and tradeoffs for engineering teams.
• Use AI-assisted discovery, requirements generation, backlog refinement, test design, and docs to improve speed and quality.
• Develop and maintain roadmaps for Edge Fabric platforms, services, APIs, and infra.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile coaching

Cross-functional leadership

Software engineering

Cloud / networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / Engineering / IT / Telecom / Business or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git-based workflows

Job description

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

Collaborating across PM, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations, Sales and CX, you will set priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and ensure release value.