Product Manager, Technical

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Job Overview
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Product Manager Technical is a visionary strategist analyst customer evangelist respected leader of business and technology execution and professional relationship builder all rolled into a single dynamic package. Every product at T-Mobile is envisioned and built to achieve a specific business purpose or set of business results. This role is ultimately accountable responsible and has ownership of a variety of T-Mobile For Business portfolios and products like 5G Collaboration IOT Business Connectivity and Security. We partner very closely with the business offering strategic guidance and road mapping.
We are a team that encourages innovation and advocate an agile and open approach truly working and playing in the Un-carrier way!

Job Responsibilities include:

• Owns product end to end for products or features with moderate level of complexity and scope. This includes crafting managing maintaining and communicating product vision and roadmap including technical vision and capabilities.
• Partners with business and internal/external collaborators to understand current customer experience identifies areas of opportunity.
• Communicates influences and sells ideas at Director level and below. This includes regularly delivering product presentations.
• Conducts specific ad hoc analysis and provides insights to management on request.
• Recommends product feature set or technical improvements to improve customer experience.
• Works with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities.
• Uses 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 lead foster an active VOC feed for themselves and team.
• Actively looks for opportunities to delight or meet customers unmet needs.
• Evangelizes and advocates for the customer both internally (IC through C level) and externally perpetuating the customer-first mentality.
• Creates an environment and culture where the team is immersed in customer-first attitude.
• Tests ideas with customers to ensure that the product delivers the desired benefit.
• Translates product/platform strategy by writing detailed capabilities features and user stories consumable for Dev teams for moderately sophisticated products. This work may include creation of prototypes.
• Collaborates with PM and Dev leaders to design architect and assemble effective Agile delivery teams in the Agile Release Train and Agile Teams.
• Runs or contributes significantly to key Agile ceremonies: Program Increment (PI) Planning / Big Room
• Owns and manages product backlog and priorities with our business and technology partners
• Scopes and prioritizes 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.
• Ensures existing production defects are factored into regular backlog prioritization for resolution based on priority.
• Collaborates with partners and Dev / Execution teams to create and communicate anticipated release schedule.
• Generates and maintains dashboards and reports that track product health and success metrics technical metrics.
• Communicates technical challenges to partners and makes educated trade-off decisions based on those challenges.
• Accountable for product quality and performance in production environment. Accountable for product team response in event of critical or high impacting defect including communications to stakeholders at all levels.
• Identify execution operational organizational issues that impede product success. Drive improvement plan to change or resolve issues (within sphere of influence).
• Support and enable core agile practices and tenants: efficient just-in-time flow; lean practices; elimination of waste; DevOps CICD.
• Collaborates and develops positive working relationships with many technical and non-technical 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.
• Manages development of adoption tools and training materials for Technical Product Management team.

Candidates for the Technical Product Manager role must have:

• 3 to 4 years of relevant Product Management experience in an agile software product development environment.
• Proven success in delivering software with Agile Scrum methodologies and other commonly used tools.
• Strong requirements elicitation and proven writing skills including the ability to write concisely and clearly for different audiences.
• Experience with Agile backlog/project management tools.
• Experience with successive elaboration and ability to develop Initiatives Features and User Stories that the DevOps teams can ingest.
• Experience in delivering large and complex business/technology initiatives as Product Manager or lead technology role.
• Proven ability to effectively and efficiently connect 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.
• Knowledge of full technology stack on which your assigned product runs.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to identify/analyze/synthesize product use data.
• Must be able to work independently and with others.
• Must be able to successfully handle multiple priorities simultaneously as required.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Agile Methodologies Proven success in delivering software with Agile Scrum methodologies and other commonly used tools. (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 Development teams can ingest. (Required)
• Project 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 connect 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 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. (Required)

Education:

• Bachelors Degree Computer Science Engineering IT or equivalent experience. (Required)

Licenses and Certifications:

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

At least 18 years of age

Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No):

DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No):No

Base Pay Range: $103400 - $186400

Corporate Bonus Target: 15%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidates 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 employees in regular non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employees eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location 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 dont 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-Mobiles amazing benefits check out.

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