Sr Product Owner, Agentic AI

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! Job Overview Join our team as a Senior Product Owner - Agentic AI, a senior execution leader within our AI organization and a critical authority within Agile feature teams. This role owns the Team / Sprint backlog as the single source of truth and serves as the accountable leader for delivery execution, backlog integrity, and sprint discipline. This role is accountable for governing the Agile team backlog and ensuring disciplined execution alignment between development teams and business stakeholders. The Senior Product Owner defines, refines, and prioritizes user stories to enable predictable delivery of AI-enabled product capabilities. This role uniquely combines backlog authority with formal quality accountability, serving as the single point of acceptance for completed user stories based on clearly defined criteria. Success is measured by sustained sprint velocity, backlog readiness, delivery predictability, and production-quality feature releases. The impact of this role extends beyond team execution, strengthening organizational agility, improving cross-team coordination, and enabling timely delivery of high-value AI-driven product capabilities. This is a hands‑on execution leadership role requiring strong technical acumen, disciplined backlog governance, and the ability to drive predictable, high-quality outcomes in complex, cross-functional AI initiatives. Job Responsibilities Drive Agile execution rigor and backlog governance, including enforcing daily Jira updates, accurate status reporting, defect and dependency tracking, and traceability from initiatives through user stories to ensure delivery transparency and operational discipline Own and govern the Agile team backlog as the single accountable authority for scope clarity, prioritization, and acceptance. Operate with a working-level understanding of architecture, APIs, data flows, AI/ML pipelines, system dependencies, and non‑functional requirements. Ensure every story is technically executable, includes clear functional and technical acceptance criteria, and reflects integration, performance, security, and operational constraints. Collaborate with Agile teams and stakeholders to write user stories and define acceptance criteria and tests Facilitate synchronization meetings with other product owners and mentor peers to enhance product ownership capabilities Review and accept completed user stories to ensure they meet acceptance criteria and quality standards Support product managers in creating and managing product vision and technical roadmaps related to scope Coordinate with other product owners to align backlogs for large, cross‑functional initiatives Also responsible for other duties/projects as assigned by business management as needed Education and Work Experience Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience (Required) 4-7 years - Relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and System Analyst or Architecture/Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment. Advanced level understanding of customer experience Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Technical Writing Strong requirements elicitation, and proven writing skills including the ability to write concisely and clearly for different audiences. (Required) Agile Project Management Experience with Agile backlog/project management tools. (Required) Communication Proven ability to effectively and efficiently communicate with Leadership, technical and non-technical audiences while employing a high degree of collaboration and influence. (Required) User Experience with successive elaboration and ability to develop Initiatives, Features and User Stories that the DevOps teams can ingest. (Required) Business Analytics Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to identify/analyze/synthesize product use data and use the data to drive decisions. (Required) Licenses and Certifications Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) preferred. (Preferred) At least 18 years of age Legally authorized to work in the United States Travel Travel Required (Yes/No): Yes DOT Regulated DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No Compensation Range for Bellevue, WA: $123,000 to $166,400 Compensation Range for Frisco, TX: $109,400 to $147,900 Base Pay Range: $94,600 - $170,700 Corporate Bonus Target: 15% 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 Never stop growing! 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