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. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI‑ready connectivity, join us today.
Lumen connects people, data, and applications quickly, securely, and effortlessly. As enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI, cloud, edge, security, and next-generation connectivity solutions, Lumen is evolving its commercial model to help customers operate with greater speed, intelligence, and confidence.
Lumen is seeking a transformational senior commercial leader to serve as Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy, Commercial Excellence & Transformation. This is a highly visible executive role reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer and serving as a strategic operating partner to the go-to-market leadership team.
Lumen is at a rare, once‑ in‑ a‑ career inflection point. We have completed the hardest part of our turnaround, stabilizing the business, strengthening the balance sheet, and sharpening our strategy and we are now reinventing ourselves as the trusted network for AI.
As AI reshapes how enterprises move data across clouds, data centers, and the edge, traditional networks are no longer fast, flexible, or secure enough. Lumen is solving this problem at global scale, building a next‑ generation, fiber‑ rich, programmable network platform designed specifically for AI workloads. With billions of dollars in AI‑ driven enterprise deals already signed and thousands of Network‑ as‑ a‑ Service customers onboarded, Lumen has moved decisively from defense to offense and into a phase of durable growth.
For leaders, this moment matters. Joining Lumen now means building, not managing decline; shaping platforms, operating models, and culture rather than inheriting legacy playbooks. Leaders have real ownership, real influence, and visible, market‑ defining impact helping determine how the AI economy actually works at scale.
The Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy, Commercial Excellence & Transformation will own the end-to-end commercial blueprint for Lumen’s go-to-market organization. This leader will be responsible for shaping multi-year commercial strategy, driving execution discipline, modernizing sales operations, strengthening customer and partner engagement models, and leading large-scale transformation across a complex enterprise environment.
This role is designed for a senior executive who can operate as a COO-like partner to the Chief Revenue Officer, translating enterprise priorities into a clear commercial agenda, scalable operating model, and measurable growth outcomes. The leader will play a central role in redesigning Lumen’s commercial engine to support future-state growth across recurring revenue, consumption-based models, platform economics, partner ecosystems, and modern enterprise selling.
The ideal candidate brings a rare combination of strategic depth, operational rigor, executive presence, and enterprise transformation experience. They will be equally comfortable engaging with the Board and senior executives, partnering cross-functionally with Finance, Product, Talent, Sales Enablement, Technology, and Customer Success, and leading teams through high-impact change.
The ideal candidate is a senior commercial executive with experience leading strategy, operations, sales transformation, or commercial excellence at scale. They will have demonstrated success operating in complex, matrixed organizations and driving enterprise-wide change that materially improves growth, productivity, and execution.
Strong candidates may come from technology, cloud, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, data platforms, networking, telecommunications, or other scaled B2B environments with sophisticated go-to-market models. Experience with recurring revenue, consumption-based models, platform businesses, partner ecosystems, or modern enterprise sales motions is highly relevant.
Required Experience & Qualifications
Preferred Experience
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
$279,263 - $372,351 in all states.
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."
Learn more about Lumen's:
Benefits
Bonus Structure
Requisition #: 343257
Life at Lumen
Life at Lumen is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI‑focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win.
To learn more about Life at Lumen and how we live the Lumen 8, please visit:
https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/life-at-lumen
Background Screening
If you are selected for a position, there will be a background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements. For more information on these checks, please refer to the Post Offer section of our FAQ page Job-related concerns identified during the background screening may disqualify you from the new position or your current role. Background results will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Equal Employment Opportunities
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, “protected statuses”). We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
Privacy Notice
Lumen is committed to protecting the privacy and security of personal information collected during the recruitment and hiring process. Our Applicant Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect applicant information, as well as how individuals may request access to or deletion of their personal data.
To review Lumen’s Global Employment Applicant and Talent Community Privacy Notice, please visit:
https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/privacy-notice
Disclaimer
The job responsibilities described above indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not intended to include a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities for this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on evolving business needs and conditions.
In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Please be advised that Lumen does not require any form of payment from job applicants during the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings will be posted on our official website or communicated through official company email addresses. If you encounter any job offers that request payment in exchange for employment at Lumen, they are not for employment with us, but may relate to another company with a similar name.
Lumen connects the world. We digitally connect people, data and applications – quickly, securely and effortlessly. Everything we do at Lumen takes advantage of our network strength. From metro connectivity to long-haul data transport to our edge cloud, security, and managed service capabilities, we meet our customers’ needs today and as they build for tomorrow.
