Remote Principal Product Manager, Data Center Networks

Lumen; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape the architecture and expansion strategy for our data center metro networks. This high-visibility, internal-facing role combines product leadership, technical diligence, and program execution to deliver network investments with meaningful business value.

You will own the roadmap for internal network products enabling external services, evaluate expansion options, and lead cross-functional teams through delivery.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in product management, program management, network planning, or network engineering.
• 3+ years of experience supporting metro, data center, optical, or related network infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of metro network architecture and topology diversity, siting, and protection strategies.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs through planning, decision-making, and delivery.
• Ability to build quantitative demand, investment, and ROI models from evolving data.
• Understanding of capital economics, including payback and IRR.
• Experience translating complex technical and financial analysis into concise recommendations.
• Ability to influence across Product, Engineering, Planning, Finance, Operations, and Sales in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy, requirements, and multi-year architectural roadmap for data center metro network solutions.
• Translate topology, diversity, capacity, transport, optical-layer, and POP siting into repeatable designs.
• Lead cross-functional expansion programs from evaluation through delivery, tracking milestones and risks.
• Evaluate proposed network investments using demand, utilization, capital efficiency, revenue potential, and ROI.
• Establish a framework for prioritizing, approving, deferring, or redesigning metro network upgrades and expansions.
• Build demand models combining contracted demand, pipeline, market signals, and forecast scenarios.
• Assess whether existing internal products and architectures remain the right platforms for growth.
• Partner with Product, Network Planning, Engineering, Finance, Operations, Service Delivery, and Sales.

Skills

Product management

Program management

Network planning

Network engineering

Financial analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical skills

Education

MBA or engineering degree

Tools

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Python

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape the architecture and expansion strategy for our data center metro networks. This high-visibility, internal-facing role combines product leadership, technical diligence, and program execution to deliver network investments with meaningful business value.

You will own the roadmap for internal network products enabling external services, evaluate expansion options, and lead cross-functional teams through delivery.