Senior Lead Product Manager

Lumen Technologies • Remote, OR

1d • $129,639 - $170,137

About The Position

The Senior Lead Product Manager, Market Strategy & Investment Planning will identify, size, and prioritize market expansion opportunities across Lumen’s Infrastructure Products portfolio. The role connects market demand with network feasibility and investment economics to guide where Lumen should expand, modernize, or deploy capital.

The position develops market sizing and attractiveness frameworks, partners with Network Planning to evaluate infrastructure feasibility, and builds investment cases that inform portfolio and capital priorities. It also maintains decision-ready dashboards and executive materials and tracks approved investments against expected market and financial outcomes.

Lumen describes its environment as high-accountability, with clear expectations, shared accountability, and collaboration focused on meaningful outcomes. The role works across Product, Network Planning, Finance, Sales, Strategy, and senior leadership.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in product management, market strategy, network planning, corporate strategy, finance, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience with market sizing, segmentation, financial modeling, business cases, or investment prioritization.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to turn complex market and network data into clear recommendations.
• Ability to lead cross-functional work and influence decisions across Product, Network Planning, Finance, Sales, and Strategy.
• Clear executive communication and presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in telecommunications, fiber, wavelength, Ethernet, dark fiber, colocation, data centers, cloud connectivity, or other infrastructure-intensive markets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain product and geographic market sizing, including TAM, SAM, and SOM.
• Analyze market demand, customer concentration, competitive dynamics, growth trends, network reach, and infrastructure readiness.
• Create a consistent market-attractiveness framework to rank metros, routes, and other expansion opportunities.
• Partner with Network Planning to assess capacity, build feasibility, deployment timing, and network alternatives.
• Build investment cases quantifying revenue potential, margin, capital requirements, time to revenue, payback, and strategic value.
• Recommend portfolio and capital priorities to Product, Network Planning, Finance, and senior leadership.
• Maintain decision-ready dashboards and executive materials.
• Track approved investments against expected market and financial outcomes.

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: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed