Remote Product Strategy & Programs Lead

Lumen; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 152,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, enabling high-performance connectivity for enterprises, governments, and communities. We seek a Principal Product Manager for the Outbound Product team to drive complex programs from priority to measurable outcomes.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to define work, establish ownership, manage risk, and align teams around clear outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 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.

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 thinking

Communication

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Business judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

Databricks

Palantir

Job description

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, enabling high-performance connectivity for enterprises, governments, and communities. We seek a Principal Product Manager for the Outbound Product team to drive complex programs from priority to measurable outcomes.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to define work, establish ownership, manage risk, and align teams around clear outcomes.