Principal Product Program Lead, AI-Ready Connectivity

Lumen; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 160,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs on the Outbound Product team. You will turn priorities into executable work streams, establish ownership, and drive execution across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance to deliver measurable outcomes.

You will collaborate with leaders to align roadmaps with business goals, manage risks, and influence across the organization without direct authority. Remote opportunity across the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in program management, product management, product operations, technology leadership, or related roles.
• Proven experience leading large, complex programs across multiple teams, workstreams, and organizations.
• Ability to establish program structure, ownership, governance and measures of success, and drive execution.
• Strong analytical and business skills with data-driven decision making.
• Strong communication and influencing skills with senior stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of enterprise networking and routing concepts, with technical fluency to lead programs involving network connectivity.

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

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Networking concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, CS, IS or related field

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs on the Outbound Product team. You will turn priorities into executable work streams, establish ownership, and drive execution across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance to deliver measurable outcomes.

You will collaborate with leaders to align roadmaps with business goals, manage risks, and influence across the organization without direct authority. Remote opportunity across the U.S.