Strategic Automotive Accounts Director
Livonia, MI - USA
Job Summary
T-Mobile is in pursuit of exceptional talent to join our executive team. Were committed to excellence and innovation and we are on the lookout for a leader who can steer our company towards new heights of this pivotal role you will be responsible for driving strategic initiatives and leading a talented team of professionals. The ideal candidate will possess a proven track record of success demonstrating a keen ability to navigate complex challenges and capitalize on emerging opportunities. As a key member of our executive team you will play a crucial role in shaping and executing our organizational strategy and contributing to our continued growth and market leadership. Join us in our commitment to driving innovation inspiring collaboration fostering a positive company culture and achieving unparalleled success.
Job Description Summary:The Director Connected Vehicle Programs is an Individual Contributor (IC) Director responsible for leading T-Mobiles initial delivery of connected car services. This role serves as the primary executive-facing liaison between T-Mobile and Automotive OEM clients translating complex technical and operational information into clear business communications for senior stakeholders. The Director coordinates across T-Mobiles PMO network engineering and cross-functional lines of business to ensure cohesive on-time delivery of specific parallel this role develops scalable operating frameworks and best practices for handling large-scale connected vehicle OEM relationships that can be applied to future T-Mobile partnerships.
Job Responsibilities
- Executive Relationship Management: Serve as T-Mobiles senior point of contact with Automotive OEMs leadership. Build and maintain trust with executive stakeholders through consistent proactive and clear communication. Translate complex technical delivery status and issues into concise executive-level messaging using a less is more communication approach.
- Cross-Functional Delivery Coordination: Act as the central orchestration point for T-Mobiles OEM delivery aligning PMO network engineering and technical teams. Maintain dotted-line oversight of OEMs aligned workstreams to ensure accountability resolve blockers and drive delivery timelines. Own bi-directional information flow between OEMs and internal T-Mobile teams.
- Technical Translation & Communication Cadence: Establish and lead a regular executive communication rhythm. Distill technical program status (network deployment platform PMO) into business-relevant summaries risks and decisions for senior audiences on both sides. Ensure the so what of every update is clear and actionable.
- Connected Car Operating Model Development: Bring together document and codify lessons learned and best practices from OEMs engagement into a reusable operating framework for T-Mobiles connected car OEM business. Contribute to pre-sales and solutioning materials to support future large-scale automotive customer pursuits.
- Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.
Education & Work Experience:
- Bachelors Degree: Business Engineering Telecommunications or related field (Required)
- 10 years: Program/delivery management in telecommunications IoT or connected car industries (Required)
- 7 years: Direct experience leading connected car OEM relationships preferably with Tier 1 automotive OEMs
- 7 years: Demonstrated experience operating at the executive level building relationships with and presenting to C-suite or VP-level stakeholders (Required)
- PMP (Project Management Professional) or equivalent program management certification (Preferred)
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Executive Communication (Required) - Ability to distill complex technical information into concise decision-ready executive messaging; strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Connected Car Domain Knowledge (Required) - Deep understanding of connected car technology terminology ecosystem (OEM Tier 1 network platform) and business models. (Required)
- Cross-Functional Leadership (Required) - Proven ability to coordinate and influence across PMO engineering network and sales teams without direct authority (dotted-line model).
- Technical Fluency (Required) - Sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with network and engineering teams; ability to ask the right questions and understand answers.
- Relationship Management - Demonstrated ability to build executive trust and credibility with large enterprise customers; existing automotive OEM network strongly preferred.
- Operating Model Design - Ability to identify document and systematize best practices into repeatable delivery frameworks.
At least 18 years of age
Legally authorized to work in the United States
Travel:
Travel Required: Yes
Frequency of Travel: Occasionally
Type of Trave: Domestic
Overnight Travel: Yes
DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position: No
Safety Sensitive Position: No
Base Pay Range: $150500 - $203700Corporate Bonus Target: 25%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 qualifications and experience so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. 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.
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 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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