Sr. Product Manager, Technical - Technology Programs Operations

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Job Responsibilities:

• Work with lead architects across Technology to provide insights and recommendations for the company's largest programs.
• Interview program leads to gather information and create artifacts to outline findings.
• Partner with the review board to develop and present recommendations.
• Collaborate with various departments, Network, IT, and program office, to ensure alignment and successful implementation of recommendations.
• Designs and drives end user product reviews.
• Partners with business, internal/external stakeholders and Leadership to unerstand current customer experience, identifies areas of opportunity
• Anticipates industry trends, direction, innovation, analyses potential impacts or opportunities to customer / product, and incorporates analyses into product process.
• Communicates, influences, and sells ideas at VP level and below. This includes regularly delivering product presentations.
• Drives specific ad hoc analysis and presents information to executive level management on request.
• Influences product feature set or technical improvements to improve customer experience.
• Maintains current understanding of tech trends. Assesses how trends impact the roadmap or create opportunity for innovation of the product.
• Customer Evangelist
• Leverages customer insights for product vision, strategy, roadmap, priorities.
• Dedicates time to customers actively meeting with them to build deeper empathy and understand their needs and priorities.
• Create, manage, foster an active VOC feed for themselves and team.
• Actively looks for opportunities to delight or meet customer's unmet needs.
• Evangelizes and advocates for the customer both internally (IC through C level) and externally, perpetuating the customer-first mindset.
• Creates an environment and culture where the team is immersed in customer first mindset.
• Tests ideas with real customers to ensure that the product delivers the desired benefit.
• Product Execution & Technical Delivery
• Owns and manages architecture review reports and priorities with our business and technology partners.
• Scopes and ensures alignment on the prioritization of activities based on business and customer impact.
• Collaborates with Architecture and Dev teams to ensure technical debt and long term technical investment is factored into roadmap.
• Generates and maintains dashboards and reports that track product health and success metrics, technical KPI's.
• Conduct Product Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR's) and Steering meetings.
• Supports sales, marketing, and other stakeholder teams with product or technical knowledge and additional documentation.
• Assists with the overall execution relating to all aspects of the software development process, from defining the strategy and architecture through deployment and support.
• Recognizes and communicates technical challenges to stakeholders and makes educated trade-off decisions with the team.
• Manages development of adoption tools and training materials.
• Identify execution, operational, organizational issues that impede product success. Drive improvement plan to change or resolve issues (within sphere of influence).
• Relationship & People, Professional Development
• Collaborates and develops positive working relationships with many teams, including sales, commercial accounting, marketing, legal, go-to-market, finance, Dev, Architecture, Engineering.
• Works with outside partners and other third parties.
• Develops positive working relationships with Customer groups or Customer Representatives.
• Maintains professional knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviews professional publications; establishes personal networks; participates in professional societies.
• Develops adoption tools and training material for Technical Product Management team.
• Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.
  

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, IT) or equivalent experience. (Required)

Work Experience:

• 6+ years experience in hands on technical analysis, writing production code, solution engineering, or technical architecture in large scale company/ application / product environment. (Required)
• 7+ years of relevant Product Management experience in an agile software product development environment. Advanced level understanding of customer experience, wireless networks and/or IT. (Required)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Agile Methodologies Proven success in directing matrixed resources and delivering software, with Agile Scrum methodologies and other commonly used tools, across multiple teams. (Required)
• Technical Writing Strong requirements elicitation, and proven writing skills including the ability to write concisely and clearly for different audiences. (Required)
• Agile Project Management Experience with Agile backlog/project management tools. (Required)
• Collaboration Experience with successive elaboration and ability to develop Initiatives, Features and User Stories that the DevOps teams can ingest. (Required)
• Product Management Experience in delivering large and complex business/technology initiatives as Product Manager or lead technology role. (Required)
• Communication Proven ability to effectively and efficiently communicate with Leadership, while employing a high degree of collaboration and influence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences including executives and non-technical leaders. (Required)
• Technology Deep understanding of platform technologies and components such as security, performance, optimization, API integration.
• Advanced knowledge of full technology stack on which your assigned product runs. (Required)
• Business Analysis Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to identify/analyze/synthesize product use data and use the data to drive decisions. (Required)
• Integration Knowledge and experience with integration patterns, API's, and protocols such as REST, EDI, SOAP, etc. (Required)
• DevOps Extensive knowledge of DevOps (CI / CT / CD) and application of CI/CT/CD in Agile environment. (Required)

Licenses and Certifications:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Product Owner Certification (CSPO) (Preferred)
• Other Technical Certification Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) (Preferred)

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobile's amazing benefits, check out www.t-mobilebenefits.com.

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