Principal Product Manager, Outbound

Lumen Technologies • Remote, OR

4d • $152,066 - $223,031 • Remote

About The Position

As a Principal Product Manager on Lumen’s Outbound Product team, you will lead complex programs that turn product and business priorities into execution and measurable outcomes. The role brings structure and accountability to strategic initiatives spanning Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and other teams. You will translate broad objectives into defined work, establish ownership and success measures, and drive execution across the organization.

You will partner with product and business leaders to identify dependencies, resolve barriers, manage risk, and align teams around desired outcomes. This senior individual contributor role calls for program leadership, business judgment, analytical thinking, and the ability to influence across organizations without direct authority. The role is remote and open to candidates anywhere in the U.S.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, or equivalent program leadership experience.
• Experience leading programs tied to product commercialization, customer adoption, migrations, transformation, or strategic partnerships.
• Experience with cloud, AI, networking, digital infrastructure, telecommunications, or enterprise technology.
• Experience working with technology partners and analytics platforms such as Databricks, Palantir, or comparable environments.

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 give leadership 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 business-wide work, and bring 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 execution of complex product and commercialization programs across the organization.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, and Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks supporting physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Bonus structure may include short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and/or sales compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal