Principal Product Manager - Billing & Charging

T-MOBILE USA, Inc.
$139,700 - $252,000Corporate Bonus Target: 20%
life insurance, vision insurance, flexible benefit account, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition assistance, 401(k)
United States, Kansas, Overland Park
6200 Sprint Parkway (Show on map)
Feb 05, 2025
At T-Mobile, we invest in YOU! Our Total Rewards Package ensures that employees get the same big love we give our customers. All team members receive a competitive base salary and compensation package - this is Total Rewards. Employees enjoy multiple wealth-building opportunities through our annual stock grant, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), and access to free, year-round money coaches. That's how we're UNSTOPPABLE for our employees! The Principal Product Manager for Promotions, Rate Plans, Offers, Billing, Account Management and Digital Product Management is a visionary, strategist, analyst, customer evangelist, respected leader of execution, and professional relationship builder all rolled into a single dynamic package. Every product at T-Mobile is envisioned and created to achieve a specific business purpose or set of business results. The Principal Product Manager is ultimately accountable, responsible, and has ownership of T-Mobile's internal and external products, platforms, services, and experiences envisioned and created to achieve the specific business purpose or business results. At a high level, this means identifying the intersection of customer problems/unmet needs (an opportunity), technical feasibility, business objectives, securing funding, and leading a cross-functional team as well as key stakeholders to deliver against the opportunity. The Principal Product Manager is a "jack-of-all-trades," leveraging deep customer empathy, strategic thinking, commercial, analytical, and leadership prowess to successfully deliver delightful and differentiated products that drive growth and positively impact customers' lives. No day is the same for the Principal Product Manager. Day-to-day activities or responsibilities include conducting market research, generating product requirements, determining specifications, defining the long-term strategy of the product, creating the product roadmap, helping drive and support technical delivery end-to-end, defining scope for releases/product increments, and partnering with business and internal/external stakeholders to identify areas of opportunity. Job Responsibilities: Product Champion: Communicates, influences, and sells ideas at SVP/EVP/C-Level and below. This includes regularly delivering product presentations. Drives specific ad hoc analysis and presents information to SVP/EVP/C level and below on request. Contributes to future product feature set and positioning strategies to improve customer experience and drive or support growth. As a product champion, perpetuates a customer-first mindset, actively looking for opportunities to delight or meet customers' unmet needs. Product Vision and Strategy: Owns the definition and management of Rate Plans, Promotion, Offers, Billing and Charging products, end-to-end for complex or cross-platform solutions of the highest level of complexity and scope. Responsible for the lifecycle/product innovation for key customer experiences within T-Mobile. Partners with business, internal/external stakeholders, and senior leadership to understand current customer experiences and identify areas of opportunity. Develops a deep understanding of the product landscape via market research and other means. Analyzes market performance, customer and representative satisfaction from various sources, and performs financial and qualitative analysis to complete a prioritized roadmap of activities to balance overall profitability (revenue, costs, growth/churn) with customer experience and other strategic objectives. Manages the product against defined KPIs, e.g., CLV, CSAT, NPS. Conducts analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to identify and drive product innovation. When required, drives end-of-life business and technical requirements for the product. Leverages rapid hypothesis-driven testing methodologies and experiments (e.g., paper prototype, A/B testing) to inform direction and prioritize investment. Product Requirement Definition: Defines detailed product requirements for the family of Rate Plans, Promotions, Offers, Billing and Charging products. Translates product/platform strategy by writing detailed features and user stories consumable for development teams for highly complex products with multiple transactions and touchpoints. Accountable for developing product and service definitions that balance the needs of the business (financial - net adds/EBITDA), frontline employees (care and sales), and the customer by collaborating and influencing other cross-functional leaders in care, sales, legal, and accounting to solve complex, multi-faceted problems that deliver solutions ensuring product definitions meet both customer and business needs. Product Experience: Defines and designs digital customer/representative experiences - from how a customer buys the new product to how they interact with it. Influences product feature set and positioning strategies to improve customer experience and drive or support growth. Often makes trade-off decisions around financial impact, customer experience, and time to market. Develops and delivers effective presentations to executive leadership on product innovation concepts, optimization recommendations, and digital customer experience. Product Implementation: Owns end-to-end delivery of the product that meets the intent of product/business requirements. Collaborates with Technology/Engineering teams to design, architect, and assemble effective delivery plans using Agile delivery methodology. Runs or contributes significantly to key Agile ceremonies: Program Increment (PI) Planning / Big Room Planning; Product Demo; Inspect and Adapt (I&A), etc. Regularly engages with test developers and test leads to develop and execute against test plans. Owns and manages product backlog and priorities with business and technology partners. Go to Market: Optimizes the portfolio of products and services-determining launch dates, and phasing recommendations to optimize EBITDA impacts with customer experience. Develops and implements plans, manages go-to-market activities including training, communication, and distribution plans. Leads director/VP level steering meetings. Relationship & People, Professional Development: Collaborates and develops positive working relationships with many technical and non-technical teams, including sales, commercial accounting, marketing, legal, go-to-market, finance, development, architecture, and engineering. Works with outside partners and other third parties when needed. Develops positive working relationships with customer groups or customer representatives. Maintains professional knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies. Regularly mentors and provides informal coaching to other Product Management staff, as well as other members of the Product Team. Education: Bachelor's Degree Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering, IT or equivalent experience. (Required) Master's degree preferred Work Experience: More than 7+ years of product management experience in a promotions, rate plans, billing and catalog product development environment. 10+ years of experience in Digital Product Management 7+ years of knowledge of the wireless services space. 7+ years of experience working with Telecom Billing Systems. 10+ years of multi-function marketing experience and leading technical implementations. Experience in AI and data analysis Comfortable presenting to all levels of the organization, from the front line through the C-Suite. * At least 18 years of age * Legally authorized to work in the United States Travel: Travel Required (Yes/No): DOT Regulated: DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No):No Base Pay Range: $139,700 - $252,000 Corporate Bonus Target: 20% 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, click here. 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 don't 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-Mobile's amazing benefits, check out www.t-mobilebenefits.com. Never stop growing! 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