Director of Technology - Product Innovation

Job Description:

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

At AT&T, we’re connecting the world through the latest tech, top-of-the-line communications and the best in entertainment. Our groundbreaking digital solutions provide an intuitive and integrated experience for customers across online, retail and care channels. Join our mission to deliver compelling communication and entertainment experiences to customers around the world. You’ll drive how we deliver a seamless and fast customer experience with digital at the center of AT&T's distribution channels. We’re offering an opportunity to revolutionize the digital space and the chance to create a career that will propel your future.  

Director of Technology – Product Innovation 

Position Overview 

AT&T’s Product Innovation Team is looking for a Director of Technology who is passionate about the eCommerce industry and has analytical and multi-task abilities to thrive in a fast-paced environment. As a Director of the Empowered Product Team, you will be responsible for the product strategy, planning, design and development of go-to-market products. This role ensures the successful delivery by leading a team through agile development, managing risks, providing technical guidance and balancing agility through effective QA protocols. You must possess a strong technical background as well as demonstrated management experience over a highly technical team to ensure you are designing modular & scalable web components. Experience leading teams through large cross-organizational software development projects from ideation to delivery is critical. Must have a well-rounded technical background in current web and micro-service technologies.

Responsibilities 

• Develop vision and roadmap, and execute with coherent strategy, including design, user requirements, market assessments and scalable delivery plan for multiple domain areas 

• Engage customers, partners and internal stakeholders to determine business requirements, technical considerations and strategic objectives 

• Craft and communicate product strategy across the organization and influence senior executives to acquire the necessary resources. 

• Collaborate with PM, Engineering and operations peers to deliver strategic and tactical plans and objectives 

• Provide technical design and architectural leadership to multiple teams and projects to help ensure applications are integrated and adhere to stated architectural and design principles and standards while having the opportunity to remain in a hands-on engineering role. 

• Drive efforts to architect, design, develop, and implement technology-enabled business and technical information solutions encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologies 

• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions 

• Owns key initiatives & deliverables especially in a specific domain area 

• Provide functional and technical leadership to other Associate Directors, Product Managers, Lead Engineers, Architects and Quality Analysts 

• Enforce company policies in the areas of development methodology, architecture, security, change and configuration management and compliance 

• Direct a team of one or more IT organizations which targets 8 or more IT employee direct reports typically with Associate Directors and a total org size of 50 or more.