
AVP Technical Product Technology – BSSE
AT&T
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Dallas • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $206,900 - $347,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own portfolio investment strategy and prioritization across BSE products, platforms, and shared services.
- Standardize business cases and ROI narratives (unit economics, cost-to-serve, TCO, run vs. change).
- Ensure benefits are tracked and realized post-launch.
- Establish portfolio-level governance with integrated roadmaps, outcome metrics, and decision-ready tradeoffs.
- 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.
- Lead the transition from SDLC to AIDLC within technical product management.
- Define standards, guardrails, and playbooks for AI-enabled 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Bring an outside-in perspective through benchmarking and market insights.
- Leverage vendors and partners using performance benchmarks and commercial leverage.
- Stay current on AI-enabled product and platform practices and apply them pragmatically.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in technical product management, platform product leadership, or technical portfolio leadership.
- 7+ years leading multi-team product organizations, including operating model and org design.
- Proven ownership of a large, multi-year product/platform portfolio, including investment planning and benefits realization.
- Demonstrated experience modernizing product and engineering practices using AI-enabled 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.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical product managementplatform product leadershipinvestment planningAI-enabled workflowsbusiness casesROIunit economicsAPIsCI/CDobservability
Soft Skills
executive presencecommunication skillsleadershipcoachingperformance managementdecision-makingstrategic thinkingcommunity buildinganalytical capabilitycollaboration