Principal PM: AI-Ready Connectivity & Programs

Lumen; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 152,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Principal Product Manager for the Outbound Product team to oversee complex programs that translate product and business priorities into measurable outcomes. You will drive structure, ownership, governance, and execution across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance, aligning senior stakeholders around shared outcomes.

You will influence across the organization, manage dependencies, and lead initiatives from conception to commercialization, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in program/product management or similar.
• Experience leading large, cross-functional programs.
• Ability to define structure, ownership, governance, and success measures.
• Strong data-driven decision making and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional programs tied to key product, customer, and business priorities.
• Turn broad objectives into clear programs with defined outcomes, workstreams, milestones, owners, dependencies, and measures of success.
• Establish the structure, governance, and operating rhythm needed to drive execution across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and partner teams.
• Identify risks, gaps, competing priorities, and decisions early, drive them to resolution, and provide leadership with clear visibility into where support is needed.
• Lead programs supporting product launches, commercialization, customer adoption, migrations, strategic partnerships, and other key product initiatives.
• Partner with Product leaders to connect product and roadmap priorities to the work required across the business, while bringing program, customer, and field insights back into decisions.
• Use customer, product, operational, and financial data to establish baselines, measure progress, identify opportunities, and support decisions. Build repeatable approaches that improve how complex product and commercialization programs are executed across the organization.

Skills

Program management

Product management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Communication

Enterprise networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Palantir

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Principal Product Manager for the Outbound Product team to oversee complex programs that translate product and business priorities into measurable outcomes. You will drive structure, ownership, governance, and execution across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance, aligning senior stakeholders around shared outcomes.

You will influence across the organization, manage dependencies, and lead initiatives from conception to commercialization, ensuring