Lead Product Manager, Innovation – Frontiers

This position is based at our Innovation Labs headquarters in Kirkland, Washington. Our facility features cutting-edge technology, private research and development spaces housing groundbreaking products, and open floor plans designed to foster collaboration and creativity—all to enhance your work experience.

This position is based at our Innovation Labs headquarters in Kirkland, Washington. Our facility features cutting-edge technology, private research and development spaces housing groundbreaking products, and open floor plans designed to foster collaboration and creativity—all to enhance your work experience.

Lowe’s Innovation Labs is a specialized innovation unit that keeps Lowe’s ahead of what’s next. We explore disruptive technologies, conduct hands-on applied R&D, and help the enterprise adopt promising new capabilities with less uncertainty and friction.

As Lead Product Manager, New Frontiers, you will lead and advance the Labs’ early-stage portfolio of emerging technology opportunities. You will translate technical possibilities into customer-centered use cases, testable hypotheses, and evidence-based recommendations that help Lowe’s determine where to learn, invest, partner, scale, or stop.

You will partner with engineers, designers, researchers, and business stakeholders across areas such as Physical AI and robotics, world models, quantum computing, alternative manufacturing and construction, autonomous vehicles, and other emerging domains.

• Define the long-term vision, strategy, and investment thesis for the New Frontiers portfolio, connecting disruptive technology shifts to meaningful customer, associate, and enterprise opportunities.
• Own discovery and product development for defined New Frontiers initiatives, connecting emerging technology shifts to meaningful customer, associate, and enterprise opportunities.
• Identify customer and business problems worth solving for DIY and Pro customers through customer research, associate feedback, market signals, and operational insight.
• Translate complex technical capabilities into clear product visions, use cases, experience principles, requirements, roadmaps, and decision-ready narratives.
• Lead structured discovery, applied R&D, and experimentation in ambiguous problem spaces; design credible tests that reduce strategic uncertainty.
• Define hypotheses, learning agendas, success criteria, and phase-appropriate outcomes for explorations, proofs of concept, pilots, and incubations.
• Partner closely with engineering and design to make informed tradeoffs among customer value, technical feasibility, operational viability, speed, and risk.
• Develop and maintain initiative-level roadmaps, OKRs, metrics, and documentation that communicate near-term learning and potential long-term value.
• Synthesize experiment results and make recommendations to iterate, invest, partner, scale, pause, or sunset opportunities.
• Build productive relationships with partners across Technology, Stores, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Digital Commerce, and other functions to accelerate learning and create paths to adoption.
• Support engagement with external partners, including startups, researchers, universities, venture firms, and technology companies.
• Navigate security, legal, architecture, governance, and operational constraints while maintaining momentum and rigor.
• Create clear executive-ready narratives, demos, and artifacts that explain what Lowe’s is learning, why it matters, and what decisions are needed.
• Contribute to strong product-management practices across Labs and provide informal mentorship to product peers.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, design,…