Senior Lead Technical Marketing Manager, Cybersecurity

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.

This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate.

We are seeking a Senior Lead Technical Marketing Manager to shape how Lumen brings its cybersecurity capabilities to market. This role translates complex security technologies, architectures, and threat intelligence into credible technical narratives, demonstrable solutions, seller‑ready guidance, and customer experiences that accelerate adoption and revenue.

As a senior individual contributor, you will consult on and lead initiatives in partnership with many functions—Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Partners, and our threat research team, Black Lotus Labs. You will own high‑impact technical marketing programs across the cybersecurity portfolio and influence product and go‑to‑market decisions through customer insight, market evidence, technical depth, and commercial judgment.

This is a work‑from‑home position in the United States. Occasional travel is expected for customer engagements, industry events, demonstrations, sales enablement, and team planning sessions.

• Own the technical marketing strategy:
  Define and execute technical marketing priorities for Lumen cybersecurity solutions, connecting portfolio strategy to customer use cases, architectures, adoption motions, and measurable business outcomes.
• Create differentiated technical positioning:
  Develop clear, defensible messaging and value propositions for technical buyers and practitioners, including CISOs, security architects, SOC leaders, network leaders, and cloud security teams.
• Build solution narratives and architectures:
  Translate cybersecurity capabilities into end‑to‑end reference architectures, validated use cases, solution blueprints, integration patterns, and deployment guidance across network, cloud, edge, and security operations environments.
• Demonstrate the technology:
  Design and deliver compelling product demonstrations, technical workshops, webinars, videos, labs, and proof‑of‑value experiences that show how Lumen and its partners solve priority customer problems.
• Lead technical content development:
  Create and govern high‑value assets such as white papers, technical briefs, solution guides, blogs, FAQs, architecture diagrams, competitive guides, and technical launch materials.
• Enable sellers and technical teams:
  Develop role‑based training, discovery guidance, objection handling, battle cards, demo scripts, technical FAQs, and field playbooks that improve seller confidence, solution quality, and conversion.
• Launch and support growth motions:
  Serve as the technical marketing lead for attach, cross‑sell, and expansion motions. Ensure product, marketing, sales, and partner readiness before market activation.
• Bring market and customer insight into decisions:
  Use customer conversations, competitive intelligence, analyst research, win‑loss findings, field feedback, and performance data to identify gaps and recommend changes to product strategy, positioning, packaging, and activation.
• Advance partner‑led solutions:
  Collaborate with strategic cybersecurity partners to create…