Join the networking revolution! Alkira, a Lumen company, is reinventing networking for the AI era. We're hiring for a Technical Product Manager who will serve as the bridge between business strategy, customer needs, and engineering execution. The role is responsible for defining product vision, prioritizing investments, and ensuring solutions are technically feasible, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish product strategy, roadmap, and feature prioritization aligned to customer and business outcomes.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to translate business requirements into actionable technical solutions while managing technical trade-offs and scalability considerations.
• Leverage customer insights, market research, analytics, and competitive intelligence to identify opportunities and drive product decisions.
• Develop clear product requirements and success criteria that enable efficient execution and delivery.
• Manage risks, dependencies, releases, and technical constraints to ensure predictable product outcomes.
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies, including AI/ML, cloud platforms, and modern architectures, to enhance product capabilities and competitive advantage.

Skills & Experience to Look For

Technical Acumen

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, APIs, cloud infrastructure, system architecture, and enterprise platforms.
• Ability to engage credibly with engineering teams on design, scalability, integration, and technical trade-offs.
• Experience working with AI, automation, data products, SaaS platforms, or digital technology solutions is preferred.
• Networking Expertise: Strong understanding of core networking concepts and protocols, including BGP, VLANs, VPN technologies, overlay protocols, routing and route-policy design, segmentation, and cloud transit architectures.
• Cloud Networking Expertise: Strong hands-on knowledge of native public cloud networking constructs, including AWS services such as Transit Gateway and Cloud WAN, and Azure services such as Virtual WAN, Virtual Network, and hub-and-spoke architectures.

Product Leadership

• Proven experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, and feature prioritization from concept through delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to balance customer needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes.
• Track record of delivering products that drive measurable business impact.

Customer & Business Focus

• Experience gathering and translating customer insights into product requirements and enhancements.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to align product decisions to revenue growth, operational efficiency, customer experience, or strategic objectives.

Analytical & Data-Driven Decision Making

• Comfortable using data, metrics, and experimentation to prioritize opportunities and evaluate outcomes.
• Ability to identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities early and make informed decisions.

Influence & Communication

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with experience working across executives, business leaders, engineering, design, and operations teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business implications.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The strongest candidates typically possess a blend of product management experience, technical depth, and strategic business thinking. They can influence at the executive level, build credibility with engineering teams, and consistently deliver customer-focused solutions that create measurable business value.

Why the Role Matters

A TPM ensures that product investments are focused on the highest-value opportunities while minimizing technical debt and execution risk. The role accelerates innovation, improves cross-functional alignment, and enables the delivery of scalable solutions that support both customer satisfaction and business growth.

SLT Assessment Questions

To identify top candidates, consider:

• Has the candidate successfully led complex technical product initiatives from strategy through execution?
• Can they translate business priorities into technical requirements and vice versa?
• Do they demonstrate strong influence across engineering, product, and executive stakeholders?
• Have they delivered measurable outcomes (revenue, adoption, efficiency, customer satisfaction)?
• Can they balance innovation, speed, scalability, and technical debt when making decisions?

COMPENSATION

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $190,000 USD plus benefits. Your actual base salary and level will be determined on a case by case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge, skills, experience, education and location.

Life at Alkira, a Lumen Connect Solution

Life at Alkira is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI-focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win. To learn more about Life at Alkira, a Lumen Connect Solution
and how we live into the Lumen 8, please visit:
https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/life-at-lumen