Remote Principal Product Manager: AI-Ready Connectivity Programs

Lumen; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 152,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance. You will translate strategic priorities into executable programs, define ownership, governance, and success metrics, and drive execution in a senior, influence-based role.

You will partner with Product leaders to align roadmaps with business needs, manage risks, and deliver measurable outcomes that move commercialization and adoption

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or 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.
• Demonstrated ability to take broad or ambiguous business objectives, establish the program structure, ownership, governance, and measures of success, and drive execution.
• Strong analytical and business skills, with experience using data to prioritize work, measure progress, and support decisions.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with experience managing risks, dependencies, and competing priorities while driving alignment with senior and executive stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking and routing concepts, with the technical fluency to lead programs involving network connectivity and effectively engage Product and Engineering teams.

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

Product operations

Technology leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication & influence

Networking concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance. You will translate strategic priorities into executable programs, define ownership, governance, and success metrics, and drive execution in a senior, influence-based role.

You will partner with Product leaders to align roadmaps with business needs, manage risks, and deliver measurable outcomes that move commercialization and adoption