Sr. Product Manager, Portfolio Innovation & Incubation

Senior Product Manager

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Responsibilities:

• AI Innovation Strategy & Foresight
• Serve as the subject matter lead for on-device AI strategy; monitor daily AI developments, capabilities, and industry announcements.
• Publish an AI & Emerging Device Category Strategy Roadmap with actionable options and portfolio hypotheses.
• Develop and maintain a T-Mobile POV on AI and its implications for the physical device landscape.
• Track our AI partnerships (e.g., OpenAI), including contractual elements, capabilities, and OEM integration progress.
• Produce documentation and executive level presentations on AI point-of-view and hardware implications
• Strategic Planning & Governance
• Lead the creation of a 12-36 month hardware innovation and partnership strategy across emerging categories and technologies.
• Represent the Product Portfolio team in new business opportunities including joint ventures, M&A prospects, and deep technology partnerships.
• Create strategic frameworks for long-range planning across hardware and software convergence.
• Provide weekly updates and monthly strategic deliverables for innovation governance committees.
• Innovation Funnel Development
• Ongoing development of competitive landscapes, horizon scanning, trend reports, and opportunity sizing frameworks.
• Maintain a real-time tracker and library of innovation ideas, partnership leads, and early concepts.
• Design and maintain the Innovation Funnel framework with defined gates, inputs, and success metrics.
• Aggregate ideas across teams and stakeholders, evaluate strategic fit, and prioritize initiatives for review.
• Define governance structure, stakeholders, and approval processes for funnel operations and strategy progression.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Drive alignment with DT, Corporate Strategy, Product Marketing, Lines of Business, and OEMs on evolving device strategy and undefined categories.
• Influence key decisions across disciplines by grounding ideation in market insights, competitor benchmarking, and technical feasibility.
• Executive Storytelling & Decision Support
• Deliver strategic documents for senior executives, synthesizing financial and commercial insights with high-impact presentations that explain not just what the data says-but why it matters.
• Create executive briefing materials and analytical frameworks to support portfolio strategy & recommendations, emerging opportunities and supplier engagements.
• Guide C-level and SVP audiences through high-stakes decision-making using a mix of narrative, analytics, and visuals.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Strategy, Business