Principal Product Manager – IT Strategy, Operations
T-Mobile
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Overland Park • Kansas • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $139,700 - $252,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of complex, cross-company IT initiatives, from problem definition and strategy through build, launch, and operationalization, driving outcomes through influence rather than direct people management
- Define clear problem statements, success metrics, and financial targets, including initiatives expected to drive billions of dollars in cost savings or efficiency gains
- Apply product thinking to enterprise initiatives by defining vision, sequencing work, validating value, and ensuring solutions are built for adoption and scale
- Lead and align cross-functional teams across IT, product, engineering, finance, and business units toward shared outcomes, often navigating competing priorities and incentives across senior stakeholders
- Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to evaluate technical tradeoffs, investment decisions, and long-term sustainability
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, clearly articulating vision, progress, tradeoffs, and outcomes
- Define operating models, governance, and ways of working required to successfully stand up, scale, and sustain new IT capabilities across the enterprise
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree plus 7 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 5 years of related experience
- Acceptable areas of study include Computer Science, Engineering, IT or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in deeply technical environments such as software engineering, systems architecture, platform engineering, or technical product or initiative leadership, with demonstrated ownership of large-scale, enterprise initiatives
- More than 10 years - Relevant Product Management experience in an agile software product development environment
- Demonstrated experience leading zero-to-one or early-stage technical initiatives
- Strong technical fluency with the ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, assess feasibility, dependencies, and cost tradeoffs, without requiring hands-on coding
- Exceptional analytical, communication, and influence skills
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Flexible spending account
- 401(k)
- Employee stock grants
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off
- Up to 12 paid holidays
- 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
- Voluntary long-term care insurance
- Mobile service & home internet discounts
- Pet insurance
- Access to commuter and transit programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product managementsoftware engineeringsystems architectureplatform engineeringagile developmenttechnical initiative leadershipanalytical skillsfinancial analysisoperating modelsgovernance
Soft skills
communicationinfluenceleadershipproblem definitionstrategic thinkingcollaborationstakeholder managementvision articulationnegotiationadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreeAdvanced Degree