Product Manager, Technical

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Product Manager, Technical is a transformational, 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 crafted to achieve a specific business purpose or set of business results. The Product Manager, Technical is ultimately accountable, responsible, and has ownership of T-Mobile's internal and external products, platforms, services, and experiences. At a high level this means identifying the intersection of customer problems/unmet needs (an opportunity), technical feasibility, business goals, securing funding, and leading a cross-functional business and technical team, as well as key collaborators to deliver against the opportunity.
Product Manager, Technical is the ultimate versatile person demonstrating deep customer insight, critical thinking, commercial, analytical, technical capability and knowledge, and leadership prowess to successfully deliver fabulous and differentiated products that drive growth and positively impact customers lives.
No day is the same for the Product Manager, Technical. Day to day activities or responsibilities include: conducting market research; writing features or user stories; determining specifications; defining long-term strategy of the product; creating the product road map; driving technical delivery end to end; defining scope for releases/product increments; partnering with development, project/program management, marketing, and other crucial team members to define release schedule; and support/drive go-to-market activities as needed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Vision, Strategy, and Analysis
  • Owns product end to end for products or features with moderate level of complexity and scope. This includes creating, managing, maintaining, and communicating product vision and strategy including technical vision and capabilities.
  • Drives end user product research.
  • Partners with business and internal/external collaborators to understand current customer experience, identifies areas of opportunity.
  • Conducts analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to identify product innovation opportunities or root cause of issues, and assess opportunity size and impact. May work with data scientists to answer questions or identify relevant insights from data.
  • Uses rapid hypothesis driven testing methodologies and experiments (i.e. paper prototype, A/B testing, etc.) to advise direction, and prioritize investment.
  • Conducts cost-benefit / return on investment / NPV analysis, to support decision making.
  • Develops and maintains current understanding of tech trends. Assesses how trends impact the roadmap or create opportunity for innovation of the product.
  • Communicates, influences, and sells ideas at various levels. This includes regularly delivering product presentations in-person and virtually.
  • 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.

• Customer Evangelist
  • Leverages customer insights for product vision, strategy, roadmap, priorities.
  • Dedicates time to customer meetings to understand needs and priorities.
  • Create, lead, and champion an active VoC (Voice of Customer) feed for themselves and team.
  • Actively looks for opportunities to exceed customer needs.
  • Evangelizes and advocates for the customer both internally (IC through C level) and externally, perpetuating the customer-first mentality.
  • Tests ideas with real customers to ensure that the product delivers the desired benefit.

• Product Execution & Technical Delivery
  • Translates product/platform strategy by writing detailed 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 Planning; System Demo; Inspect and Adapt (I&A), etc.
  • Owns and handles product backlog and priorities with our business partners. Backlog at this level typically serves 1 - 4 Agile / Scrum / Sprint teams.
  • 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 build and communicate anticipated release schedule.
  • Leads and maintains efficient flow of just-in-time feature and story elaboration activities across all Agile Teams throughout execution, typically maintaining 2 iterations (Sprints) worth user stories ‘ready’ for Dev in Team Backlogs.
  • In scaled teams, holds regular meetings and coordination activities with other PM’s and Product Owners (if applicable) to ensure parallel work is in sync and dependencies are known.
  • Generates and maintains dashboards and reports that monitor product health and success metrics.
  • Conduct Product Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR’s) and Steering meetings.
  • Runs beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples.
  • Collaborates with advertising and public relations to promote product.
  • Supports sales, marketing, and other 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.
  • Communicates technical challenges and makes educated trade-off decisions based on those challenges.
  • Accountable for product quality and performance in production environment, team response in event of critical or high impacting defect, including communications to collaborators 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.

• Relationship & People, Professional Development
  • Collaborates 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.

   • Leads development of adoption tools and training materials 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:

• 3+ years experience in hands on technical role writing production code, solution engineering, or technical architecture in large scale company/application/product environment (Required)

• 5+ years of relevant Product Management experience in an agile software product development environment (Required)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Agile Methodologies: Shown success in delivering software with Agile Scrum methodologies and other commonly used tools (Required)

• Technical Writing: Strong requirements elicitation, and validated 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)

• Project Management: Experience in delivering large and sophisticated business/technology initiatives as Product Manager or lead technology role (Required)

• Communication: Ability to connect with Leadership, while employing a high degree of collaboration and influence. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present 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 ability to identify/analyze/synthesize product use data (Required)

• Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (Required)

• Vendor Management (Preferred)

• PowerBI (Preferred)

• SharePoint (Preferred)

Licenses and Certifications:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Product Owner Certification (CSPO) (Preferred)

• Other Technical Certification Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) (Preferred)

Base Pay Range: $103,400 - $186,400

Corporate Bonus Target: 15%

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, 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 employee’s 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, https://paylookup.t-mobile.com/paylookup?reqID=REQ285756&paradox=1

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