Lead Product Manager, Innovation – New Frontiers

Lowe's Home Centers•Kirkland, WA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Lowe’s Innovation Labs is a specialized innovation unit that keeps Lowe’s ahead of what’s next. We explore disruptive technologies, conduct hands-on applied R&D, and help the enterprise adopt promising new capabilities with less uncertainty and friction. As Lead Product Manager, New Frontiers, you will lead and advance the Labs’ early-stage portfolio of emerging technology opportunities. You will translate technical possibilities into customer-centered use cases, testable hypotheses, and evidence-based recommendations that help Lowe’s determine where to learn, invest, partner, scale, or stop. You will partner with engineers, designers, researchers, and business stakeholders across areas such as Physical AI and robotics, world models, quantum computing, alternative manufacturing and construction, autonomous vehicles, and other emerging domains.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, design, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
7+ years of experience across two of the following: product management, product marketing, applied engineering, software or hardware development, R&D, entrepreneurship, or business analysis.
Demonstrated experience defining product direction, roadmaps, hypotheses, and prioritization tradeoffs in ambiguous environments.
Experience working cross-functionally with engineering and design teams.
Ability to translate technical concepts into clear, customer-focused product strategies, requirements, and stakeholder communications.
Experience creating or evaluating prototypes, proofs of concept, pilots, or experiments.
Strong customer research, market analysis, and quantitative and qualitative decision-making skills.
Strong written, verbal, storytelling, and presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

Applied engineering expertise in one or more relevant frontier domains, with Physical AI, robotics, embodied AI, computer vision, autonomous systems, or world-model development strongly preferred.
Experience building or bringing to market hardware-software systems, robotics platforms, AI-enabled products, spatial computing experiences, advanced manufacturing technologies, or other emerging-technology solutions.
Experience in a corporate innovation lab, startup, research organization, venture-backed company, or similarly high-ambiguity environment.
Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly with engineers on architecture, technical constraints, system behavior, experimentation design, and scale-readiness tradeoffs.
Experience working directly with customers, field teams, stores, job sites, or operational environments to validate real-world needs and constraints.
Experience managing external technology partners, vendors, research collaborators, or strategic alliances.
Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, human-computer interaction, business, or a related field.
CSPO or comparable product-management certification.

Responsibilities

Define the long-term vision, strategy, and investment thesis for the New Frontiers portfolio, connecting disruptive technology shifts to meaningful customer, associate, and enterprise opportunities.
Own discovery and product development for defined New Frontiers initiatives, connecting emerging technology shifts to meaningful customer, associate, and enterprise opportunities.
Identify customer and business problems worth solving for DIY and Pro customers through customer research, associate feedback, market signals, and operational insight.
Translate complex technical capabilities into clear product visions, use cases, experience principles, requirements, roadmaps, and decision-ready narratives.
Lead structured discovery, applied R&D, and experimentation in ambiguous problem spaces; design credible tests that reduce strategic uncertainty.
Define hypotheses, learning agendas, success criteria, and phase-appropriate outcomes for explorations, proofs of concept, pilots, and incubations.
Partner closely with engineering and design to make informed tradeoffs among customer value, technical feasibility, operational viability, speed, and risk.
Develop and maintain initiative-level roadmaps, OKRs, metrics, and documentation that communicate near-term learning and potential long-term value.
Synthesize experiment results and make recommendations to iterate, invest, partner, scale, pause, or sunset opportunities.
Build productive relationships with partners across Technology, Stores, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Digital Commerce, and other functions to accelerate learning and create paths to adoption.
Support engagement with external partners, including startups, researchers, universities, venture firms, and technology companies.
Navigate security, legal, architecture, governance, and operational constraints while maintaining momentum and rigor.
Create clear executive-ready narratives, demos, and artifacts that explain what Lowe’s is learning, why it matters, and what decisions are needed.
Contribute to strong product-management practices across Labs and provide informal mentorship to product peers.

Benefits

Health, Dental and Vision insurance
Life and Disability insurance
Paid time off based on role, tenure, and locality, including vacation, holidays, sick and volunteer time
Flexible spending and health savings accounts
401(k) Retirement account with company match
Employee Assistance Program with concierge, work/life services and no-cost counseling for all kinds of needs
Education support programs, including tuition assistance and trade skills scholarships
Business Travel Accident insurance
Maternity and Parental leave
Adoption assistance
Lowe's Associate Discount and broad discount platform
annual bonuses
enrollment in Lowe's Employee Stock Purchase Plan and/or deferred compensation plan
grant awards