Technical Product Manager

About the role

Alkira, a Lumen company, is reinventing networking for the AI era. We are seeking a Technical Product Manager to serve as the bridge between business strategy, customer needs, and engineering execution.

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.
• Drove adoption of emerging technologies, including AI/ML, cloud platforms, and modern architectures, to enhance product capabilities and competitive advantage.

Skills & Experience

• Technical Acumen: Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, APIs, cloud infrastructure, system architecture, and enterprise platforms.
• 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.

Why the Role Matters

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

About Alkira

Alkira, a Lumen company, is building the future of enterprise networking: one programmable platform to connect, secure, and operate every cloud, site, partner, data center, and AI workload. Founded by Amir and Atif Khan, the creators of Viptela and pioneers of the SD-WAN market, Alkira was built to radically simplify how enterprises deploy and manage network infrastructure. Today, as part of Lumen, we are bringing that cloud-native operating model to a global network foundation trusted by the world’s largest enterprises. Our platform helps customers move faster without managing hardware, stitching together providers, or operating fragmented cloud networks. Teams can build and scale connectivity on demand, apply consistent security and segmentation, and gain visibility across distributed environments from one place. At Alkira, you’ll help shape the next chapter of networking: cloud-like consumption, private-network performance, and total control across the enterprise. We move fast, solve hard problems, and build technology that changes how global businesses connect. Join us and help build the future of networking.

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.