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Senior Director, Product Development
Location
United States
Posted
25 days ago
Salary
$174.9K - $256.5K / year
Seniority
Lead
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Job Description
Senior Director, Product Development
Lumen Technologies
Role Description The Senior Director of Product Development – Public Sector is responsible for leading product strategy, development execution, and operating rigor across a portfolio of public-sector offerings. This leader will: - Define vision and roadmap. - Translate complex customer and regulatory requirements into scalable solutions. - Drive cross-functional delivery from concept through launch and continuous improvement. - Establish measurement, KPI, and communication frameworks for executive visibility. - Improve delivery predictability and ensure high-quality outcomes across product and program teams. Success in this role requires strong public-sector domain knowledge, technical fluency, disciplined execution, and the ability to align engineering, operations, legal, and leadership around shared business objectives. Qualifications - 10+ years of leadership experience in product management, product development, technical program management, or a related discipline. - Proven success leading complex product portfolios and large-scale technical programs with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional dependencies. - Demonstrated ability to build and launch products from concept to scale while establishing delivery frameworks, KPIs, and operating mechanisms. - Strong understanding of government procurement, compliance, security, and policy requirements in public-sector or similarly regulated environments. - Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear business insight. Requirements - Experience supporting public-sector clients across federal, state, local, or education markets. - Understanding of government platforms, data security standards, and regulated delivery environments. - Experience implementing KPI dashboards, reporting frameworks, or workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Tableau, or similar platforms. - Background leading distributed, matrixed, or multi-disciplinary teams across product, engineering, and operations. Benefits - Comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. Compensation This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors. - $174,876 - $233,168 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, WY - $183,621 - $244,827 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, RI - $192,364 - $256,486 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, WA
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