AVP Technical Product Management (BSSE)

Assistant Vice President Technical Product Management (Business Support Systems Engineering)

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Assistant Vice President Technical Product Management is a senior product leader responsible for establishing and scaling a bestinclass technical product management function across the Business Support Systems Engineering (BSE) organization within Consumer Technology Experience (CTX). This role owns the endtoend technical product management discipline across the BSS and Supply Chain portfolioincluding products platforms and shared servicesensuring executive decisions are grounded in clear business cases platform economics and measurable outcomes not delivery activity alone. The AVP defines the technical product operating model decision rights and standards across BSE partnering closely with CTX Product Leadership to enable a productdriven model with shared priorities coherent roadmaps and strong value realization. A core mandate is to deliver stepchange improvements in portfolio predictability and execution health across a large multiyear transformation by improving sequencing surfacing dependencies earlier raising definition quality and reducing latebreaking change. This leader will also drive the evolution from SDLC to an AIDriven Development Lifecycle (AIDLC) within technical product managementestablishing standards governance and metrics to ensure AIenabled practices produce measurable business outcomes.

Location: Dallas TX or Atlanta GA (inoffice 5 days/week; relocation assistance available)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Product Portfolio Strategy & Value Realization

• Own portfolio investment strategy and prioritization across BSE products platforms and shared services.
• Standardize business cases and ROI narratives (unit economics costtoserve TCO run vs. change).
• Ensure benefits are tracked and realized postlaunch.
• Establish portfoliolevel governance with integrated roadmaps outcome metrics and decisionready tradeoffs.

Technical Product Operating Model & Talent

• Define and evolve the technical product operating model (intake discovery prioritization roadmap governance executive forums).
• Establish clear decision rights and accountability from intake through adoption and value realization.
• Set the bar for technical product management: role definitions competencies career paths and performance expectations.
• Lead talent strategy: hiring coaching performance management and succession planning.
• Build a community of practice with playbooks templates and training that reduce friction for engineering teams.

AI Adoption & AIDLC Enablement

• Lead the transition from SDLC to AIDLC within technical product management.
• Define standards guardrails and playbooks for AIenabled product practices (discovery definition prioritization experimentation learning loops).
• Establish metrics for AIDLC effectiveness (cycle time definition quality adoption realized value).
• Partner with Engineering Security Data and Architecture to ensure responsible scalable AI adoption.

Platform Scale Reuse & Shared Capabilities

• Identify and drive opportunities to scale BSS and Supply Chain platforms and reduce duplication.
• Define strategy for shared capabilities (platform services APIs data foundations CI/CD observability).
• Drive adoption with measurable impact on cost reliability and developer productivity.

Execution Predictability & Executive Partnership

• Serve as a primary decision partner to BSE/CTX executives.
• Translate complex tradeoffs into clear options risks and recommendations.
• Improve execution predictability by strengthening sequencing dependency visibility and definition quality.
• Raise the quality of executive product narratives (investment memos roadmap scenarios success metrics).

External Orientation

• Bring an outsidein perspective through benchmarking and market insights.
• Leverage vendors and partners using performance benchmarks and commercial leverage.
• Stay current on AIenabled product and platform practices and apply them pragmatically.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 15 years of experience in technical product management platform product leadership or technical portfolio leadership.
• 7 years leading multiteam product organizations including operating model and org design.
• Proven ownership of a large multiyear product/platform portfolio including investment planning and benefits realization.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing product and engineering practices using AIenabled workflows and tooling.
• Strong financial and analytical capability: business cases ROI unit economics and outcome tracking.
• Executive presence with experience leading portfolio governance and decision forums.
• Deep technical fluency across APIs/integration distributed systems cloud platforms CI/CD observability/SRE data foundations and secure SDLC.
• Track record of improving platform leverage reuse reliability and developer productivity.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Business Support Systems (BSS) Supply Chain or similarly complex enterprise platforms.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms while scaling new capabilities (APIfirst shared services migrations).

This role is a force multiplier for engineering and a cornerstone of AT&Ts BSS modernization raising the bar for technical product management improving predictability and ensuring every major investment is tied to measurable value.

Our AVP of Product Technology earns between $. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography experience expertise and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire at least 28 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone
• Long Term Grants and Deferred Compensation

A career with us a global leader in communications and technology comes with big rewards. As part of our team you will lead transformation surrounded by trailblazing industry leaders like you. You will be empowered to go above and beyond making a difference through company-sponsored initiatives or connecting and networking through one of our many employee groups. And regardless of where you are at in your career trajectory you will be rewarded by the impact that comes with making a difference in the lives of millions. With AT&T you will be a part of something greater do incredible things and be rewarded with a chance to change the world.

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