Lead Product Manager, Innovation - New Frontiers

Innovate in Kirkland
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.
Your Impact
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.
Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, design, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 7+ years of experience across two of the following: product management, product marketing, applied engineering, software or hardware development, R&D, entrepreneurship, or business analysis.
• Demonstrated experience defining product direction, roadmaps, hypotheses, and prioritization tradeoffs in ambiguous environments.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering and design teams.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into clear, customer-focused product strategies, requirements, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience creating or evaluating prototypes, proofs of concept, pilots, or experiments.
• Strong customer research, market analysis, and quantitative and qualitative decision-making skills.
• Strong written, verbal, storytelling, and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied engineering expertise in one or more relevant frontier domains, with Physical AI, robotics, embodied AI, computer vision, autonomous systems, or world-model development strongly preferred.
• Experience building or bringing to market hardware-software systems, robotics platforms, AI-enabled products, spatial computing experiences, advanced manufacturing technologies, or other emerging-technology solutions.
• Experience in a corporate innovation lab, startup, research organization, venture-backed company, or similarly high-ambiguity environment.
• Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly with engineers on architecture, technical constraints, system behavior, experimentation design, and scale-readiness tradeoffs.
• Experience working directly with customers, field teams, stores, job sites, or operational environments to validate real-world needs and constraints.
• Experience managing external technology partners, vendors, research collaborators, or strategic alliances.
• Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, human-computer interaction, business, or a related field.
• CSPO or comparable product-management certification.

Associate Benefits ( https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/joining-our-team )

• Working at one of the largest retail companies has its perks. We offer exceptional benefits and wellness programs for eligible full-time and part-time associates, tailored for many different lifestyles. Our benefits range from health, vision and dental insurance to paid vacation, tuition assistance and parental and family-building benefits. Plus, we offer learning and development opportunities to help our associates grow their skills and achieve their goals.
• Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• Paid time off based on role, tenure, and locality, including vacation, holidays, sick and volunteer time
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• 401(k) Retirement account with company match
• Employee Assistance Program with concierge, work/life services and no-cost counseling for all kinds of needs
• Education support programs, including tuition assistance and trade skills scholarships
• Business Travel Accident insurance
• Maternity and Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Lowe's Associate Discount and broad discount platform
• Other discretionary benefits (based on eligibility) include annual bonuses, enrollment in Lowe's Employee Stock Purchase Plan and/or deferred compensation plan, and grant awards

About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe's employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe's is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com .
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.