Senior Portfolio Leader – Infrastructure & AI Programs

Lumen; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 132,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Lean Portfolio Manager to lead portfolio strategy, governance, and execution for Product Infrastructure in a fully remote US role. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to align initiatives with corporate priorities and measurable outcomes.

You will drive governance, prioritization, investment decisions, and coordinated delivery across programs and product lines, enabling teams to focus on strategy, customer outcomes, and roadmap execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of leadership experience in Portfolio/Program/Product Management, Business Operations, or Strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise portfolio planning, prioritization, and governance across Product Infrastructure.
• Establish and manage portfolio roadmaps aligned with long-term business and product strategy.
• Facilitate executive decision-making through portfolio reviews and investment recommendations.
• Develop portfolio health metrics, KPI dashboards, and executive reporting structures.
• Coordinate business-case inputs with Product, Finance, Engineering, Network, and Operations.
• Lead NPI governance and coordinate development across each gate and other decision points.
• Monitor benefits realization and performance against approved business cases.
• Provide portfolio-level oversight for complex, enterprise-wide programs with multiple stakeholders.
• Partner with Product Managers to provide governance, prioritization, dependency management, and executive coordination.
• Identify dependencies, risks, constraints, and resource requirements across initiatives.
• Establish repeatable portfolio management practices, governance frameworks, and operating rhythms.
• Drive continuous improvement to reduce cycle times and increase transparency.
• Develop standards, templates, processes, and methodologies supporting portfolio management.

Skills

Portfolio Management

Program Management

Product Management

Business Operations

Strategy

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Tools

Power BI

Clarity PPM

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

Visio

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Lean Portfolio Manager to lead portfolio strategy, governance, and execution for Product Infrastructure in a fully remote US role. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to align initiatives with corporate priorities and measurable outcomes.

You will drive governance, prioritization, investment decisions, and coordinated delivery across programs and product lines, enabling teams to focus on strategy, customer outcomes, and roadmap execution.