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The Role

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The Main Responsibilities

Lead Service Delivery Operations 

• Manage day-to-day VPN order delivery across multiple regions and customer segments 
• Ensure timely, accurate provisioning aligned with customer SLAs and business goals 
• Drive performance against key metrics including FTR (First Time Right), cycle time, and backlog health 

Drive Process Improvement & Automation 

• Identify process gaps and lead initiatives to improve efficiency, quality, and scalability 
• Champion automation and simplification efforts to reduce manual work and errors 
• Partner with cross-functional teams to implement sustainable solutions 

Performance Management & Reporting 

• Establish clear performance expectations and track team productivity and quality 
• Analyze operational data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities 
• Deliver executive-level reporting with actionable insights and recommendations 
• Cross-Functional Leadership 
• Collaborate closely with Design/TDG, Field Operations, Offnet/Build, and Customer Experience teams 
• Act as a point of escalation for complex orders and customer-impacting issues 
• Drive alignment across teams to ensure seamless order flow and issue resolution 

Continued...

AI & Chat Strategy, Ideation & Value Realization 

• Build and maintain a prioritized AI/automation roadmap tied to business objectives (defect removal, cycle time, cost out, revenue enablement). 
• Run structured ideation (workshops, office hours, intake) to capture highvalue chat use cases across business functions. 
• Establish "value by design": define hypotheses, baselines, and target benefits for each use case (e.g., hours saved, cost avoided, NPS impact), and ensure every release has measurable outcomes. 
• Translate ideas into clear user stories, success criteria, and risk/controls; create business cases with ROI, effort, and dependencies. 
• Rapidly prototype chat/agent flows (prompts, intents, orchestrations) and lead pilot experiments; document reusable patterns and standards. 
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Data Governance to meet responsible AI standards (privacy, fairness, transparency) and regulatory obligations. 

Resource & Budget Management 

• Build dashboards and operational scorecards (adoption, time saved, quality, compliance) to guide decisions and show value. 
• Identify automation opportunities and policy/role changes needed to unlock impact; partner to implement and measure improvements. 

Innovation, Cost Reduction & Efficiency 

• Lead crossfunctional Kaizen/Lean sprints to remove waste (handoffs, rework, queue time) and instrument processes for observability. 
• Industrialize wins: standardize playbooks, reusable components, and reference architectures (e.g., agents, copilots, RPA, Power Platform). 
• Achieve 18,000+ hours of efficiency improvement across the organization. 

Continued...

Delivery Excellence & Governance 

• Operate a tight release cadence (backlog hygiene, Definition of Ready/Done, change management) with clear entry/exit criteria. 
• Enforce quality gates (testing, security reviews, data quality) and manage operational readiness (runbooks, SLAs, oncall). 
• Publish executiveready updates (milestones, benefits realized vs. target, risks/mitigations) and maintain auditready documentation. 

Change Management & Enablement 

• Create lightweight enablement (playbooks, prompt libraries, short demos) that make chat solutions stick. 
• Evangelize best practices; host "art of the possible" sessions and help teams become data guardians of their content for AI use. 
• Coordinate with Security/Legal on responsible AI standards, access controls, and data classification. 

Stakeholder Leadership & Partnership 

• Work closely with Operations leaders, Product owners, Engineering, Security, HR, and Finance to align roadmaps, budgets, and controls. 
• Translate business priorities into technical work; resolve tradeoffs quickly with a bias to action and customer impact. 
• Provide executiveready updates and evidence of impact; resolve blockers quickly and transparently. 

People, Culture & Leadership 

• Lead, coach, and develop an inclusive, highperformance team to achieve individual and organizational goals. 
• Set clear expectations, priorities, and performance standards aligned to business objectives. 
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and development planning. 
• Provide regular feedback, recognition, and career development support 
• Identify skill gaps and enable training, mentoring, and career growth opportunities. 
• Monitor workload, capacity, and team health to ensure sustainable performance. 
• Cultivate a culture of experimentation with guardrails-failing fast, learning fast, scaling what works. 
• Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement; recognize and reward strong performance and contributions.

What Success Looks Like

• Drive significant (defined by department goals) reduction in delivery cycle time. 
• Drive annualized cost reduction and avoidance. 
• 100% adherence to Responsible AI and data governance controls. 

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Minimum: Bachelor's Degree and 3+ years of related business operations management experience. 
• Strong discipline in maintaining a usecase backlog and governance process from intake triage discovery pilot production, including readiness across security, privacy, and data access. 
• Skilled at translating ideas into clear user stories with success criteria, risk/controls, ROI modeling, and dependency mapping. 
• Promotes a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement. 
• Excellent collaboration and effective listening skills. 
• Strong attention to detail and superior organizational skills. 
• Proven ability to present information to various levels in organizations. 
• Understanding of project management.

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.
Location Based Pay Ranges
$105,786 - $141,047 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 
$111,074 - $148,099 in these states: CO  HI  MI  MN  NC  NH  NV  OR  RI 
$116,364 - $155,152 in these states: AK  CA  CT  DC  DE  IL  MA  MD  NJ  NY  TX  VA  WA 
Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.

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