The Role

Sr. Lead Product Manager Network is an overall owner for a set of service offerings that solve private networking requirements for Enterprise, Government, Mid-Market, and International customers. This position is focused on managing, evolving, and expanding the Lumen Core Network portfolio of products and supporting the sales channels to maximize sales, revenue, and margins. This product management professional can understand segmented customer requirements, the landscape of competitive options each customer may consider, and articulate where private connectivity is the ideal solution among other Lumen networking alternatives. The Product Manager and their distributed, cross-functional team of operational and, in some cases, IT development resources must ensure the product features and functionality can drive growth and achieve positive user and customer experiences.

The Main Responsibilities

• Ensure Private Exchange product alignment with cross functional stakeholders including development, operations, sales, marketing, legal, regulatory, etc.
• Maintain and evolve Sales and .com documentation as living documents
• Maintain and communicate prioritized backlog and roadmap for product, features, and service offerings
• Develops metrics to gather data of market conditions and customer requirements to assess and recommend appropriate implementation or management of product portfolio mix which maximizes revenue and margins and aligns with corporate strategic direction.
• Defines market, including competitive analysis and definition of product functionality
  Prepares and presents business cases for new products
• Drive portfolio execution to attain its goals as set forth in company strategy and financial forecasts
• Support sales and marketing resources with information regarding customer benefits, market differentiation, and overall value proposition
• Support field sales and engineering for qualified opportunities by assessing customization or feature feasibility
• Team leader that can cast vision, illustrate tactics/strategy, and hold team members accountable

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and relevant experience
• 5+ years’ experience as a Product Manager in the telecommunications or technology industries
• Entrepreneurial “can do” attitude, willingness to be creative, flexible, and ability make an impact
• Demonstrated experience with Program management, Process development and execution
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience defining and executing go-to-market strategies
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Technical aptitude to understand product dynamics and recommend product enhancements

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Compensation

The starting salary for this role differs based on the employee’s primary work location. Employees typically do not start at the top of the range, though compensation depends on each individual’s qualifications.

Location Based Pay Ranges

$111,480 – $148,630 in these states: AR, ID, KY, LA, ME, MS, NE, SC, and SD.
$117,340 – $156,450 in these states: AZ, AL, FL, GA, IN, IA, KS, MO, MT, NM, ND, OH, OK, PA, TN, UT, VT, WV, WI, and WY.
$123,210 – $164,280 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NV, NH, NC, OR, and RI.
$129,080 – $172,100 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DE, DC, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

As with the pay range variety that’s based on the region of a country, specific offers are determined by various factors such as experience, education, skills, certifications and other business needs.