Sr AI Strategy Manager

T-Mobile • Overland Park, KS

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About The Position

The Sr AI Strategy Manager is accountable for leading the success of T-Mobile's AI-powered products, platforms, and experiences. This role involves the identification of the intersection of unmet customer needs (opportunity), technical feasibility, business objectives, funding availability, and cross-functional stakeholder leadership to deliver against the opportunity. The Sr AI Strategy Manager leverages deep problem-solving and analytical skills to effectively frame complex problems, present thoughtful recommendations, and guide strategic and operational decisions impacting business growth. This role takes lead on bringing stakeholders together to gain cross-functional alignment and develop a business strategy that is executable. This role uses data from internal and external sources to perform detailed analysis, identify trends and define fields of opportunity for the line of business/function. The Sr AI Strategy Manager communicates complicated data, logic, and solutions in a clear and concise manner. The Sr AI Strategy Manager works cross-functionally at all levels, including senior leadership, to drive strategy adoption and execution. This role uses a data-driven approach when collaborating across teams to influence change and shape business growth. This role requires leadership, customer empathy, strategic thinking, and analytical expertise to build the strategy behind AI-powered platforms that deliver contextual and personalized interactions to drive growth to the business and positively impact customer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Finance, Economics, Engineering, Statistics or related field (Required)
• 7-10 years - Strategy and Problem Solving. Experience in framing complex problems, identifying key issues that impact business decisions, and providing data-driven recommendations.
• 7-10 years - Experience analyzing and interpreting complex data sets.
• 7-10 years - Project management. Experience managing projects independently, engaging and getting buy-in from stakeholders, and creating roadmaps and project plans.
• Strategy Ability to frame problems, use strategic frameworks, develop strategies (Required)
• Business Acumen Business Model: Knowledge and understanding of business models, pricing strategies, channel management (Required)
• Financial Analysis Ability to build financial models and develop qualitative analysis, perform sensitivity analysis (Required)
• Project Management Ability to think a few steps ahead, and to lay out thoughtful and achievable project plans in a disciplined manner. Understand how to engage others and what information and data are needed to achieve goals (Required)
• Communication Ability to synthesize analysis into succinct, executive-ready written, visual, and verbal communications. Ability to articulate the rationale and present in front of senior leaders (Required)
• Strategic Thinking Critical Thinking: Ability to think through complex problems. (Required)
• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Nice To Haves

• Master's/Advanced Degree MBA – Finance, Strategy, Economics (Preferred)
• Management consulting, corporate strategy, and investment banking experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership around the strategic vision of the business unit and/or function.
• Leverages a hypothesis-based approach to structure and perform analyses, extract and analyze data, and tackle ambiguous and complex problems.
• Translates analysis into meaningful business insights.
• Builds potential options and actionable recommendations around those insights to drive strategic decisions.
• Generates recommendations for the long-term strategy of AI-driven products; providing input to road map prioritization.
• Takes a leading role in projects.
• Fosters internal partnerships across teams to develop a comprehensive understanding of critical business needs identifies key issues, and structures problem-solving approaches accordingly.
• Effectively collaborates and communicates cross-functionally to build buy-in and influence strategic vision.
• Constructs executive-level presentations, crafting a strategic story out of the numbers to present complex analytical findings in a clear, concise, and decision-impacting manner.
• Influences leadership through fact-based analysis.
• Builds financial and other decision-making models.
• Utilizes models to perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to enhance decision making across a range of options.
• Synthesizes recommendations for prioritization of resources to all levels of the organization.
• Mentors and advises more junior-level team members on best practices.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of strategic frameworks, industry trends, and corporate and customer drivers in order to improve, re-engineer or maintain company performance.
• Provides professional development mentorship to other team members.
• Guides other resources in story-telling through numbers.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees