AT&T

Lead Project/Program Manager

AT&T$118K — $178K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) preferred.
  • 5+ years of project and program management experience in a large corporate environment.
  • Experience in back office operations and transformation processes.
  • Strong background in program/project management or capacity planning.
  • Relevant certifications such as PMP are desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Lead transformation initiatives for back office teams facing capacity and process challenges.
  • Evaluate work requests for ownership based on capacity and skill alignment.
  • Manage end-to-end execution of transformation projects, ensuring adherence to scope and timelines.
  • Develop transformation plans accommodating volume volatility and operational exceptions.
  • Serve as a liaison among various teams to ensure alignment on transformation strategies and execution.
  • Identify risks and recommend corrective actions to maintain operational quality.
  • Support data analysis to inform workload distribution and transformation impact.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan offering.
  • Tuition reimbursement program available.
  • Generous paid time off starting with at least 23 vacation days annually.
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave options.
  • Adoption reimbursement support.
  • Short and long-term disability benefits included.
  • Life and accidental death insurance provided.
  • Supplemental benefits such as critical illness, accident insurance, and group legal assistance.
  • Access to employee assistance programs (EAP).
  • Wellness programs aimed at fostering employee health.
  • Employee discounts up to 50% on eligible AT&T services.
Full Job Description

Lead Project/Program Manager

Overall Purpose: Responsible for leading and supporting back office transformation initiatives that address capacity constraints, process gaps, and non‑automatable operational work across Customer Care and supporting organizations. This role ensures work is correctly aligned to the appropriate owners, executed using disciplined transformation methods, and transitioned to sustainable long‑term solutions through process redesign, automation, or skill uplift.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: Typical tasks may include, but are not limited to, the following:


Back Office Transformation & Work Intake

  • Lead and support transformation efforts for back office teams experiencing process gaps, functional misalignment, or urgent workload not suitable for automation or customer‑facing teams.
  • Evaluate incoming work requests to determine appropriate ownership based on capacity, skill alignment, and long‑term sustainability, rather than historical precedent.
  • Support the transition of temporary or overflow work back to the correct owners or into redesigned processes.

Operational & Capacity‑Based Project Execution

  • Manage transformation initiatives end‑to‑end, from problem identification through stabilization, ensuring alignment with defined scope, timelines, and capacity models.
  • Develop and maintain transformation plans that account for volume volatility, order breakage, and urgent operational exceptions that cannot be automated within required timelines.
  • Partner with stakeholders to size work appropriately and prevent scope creep or misrepresented effort estimates.

Cross‑Functional & Executive Collaboration

  • Serve as a liaison between back office teams, Care Ops+, Channel Support, OMC, Product, and Technology partners to align on transformation ownership and execution strategy.
  • Communicate clearly and credibly with senior leaders, providing fact‑based updates, risk visibility, and recommended paths forward.
  • Facilitate working sessions, syncs, and executive briefings to ensure alignment and momentum.

Quality, Risk, and Issue Resolution

  • Proactively identify risks related to capacity, process design, or ownership ambiguity and recommend corrective actions.
  • Ensure transformation outcomes meet operational quality standards and do not create downstream rework or unintended handoffs.
  • Support rapid response efforts for urgent or unexpected operational issues while maintaining focus on long‑term fixes.

Data, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

  • Support data analysis and reporting to inform decision‑making around capacity, workload distribution, and transformation impact.
  • Contribute to the development of repeatable transformation frameworks, intake criteria, and governance models to improve consistency and scalability across back office efforts.

Other Duties as Assigned

  • Support team collaboration, documentation, and knowledge transfer to ensure sustained improvements beyond the initial transformation effort.

Job Contribution: An experienced professional recognized as an expert, creatively resolving complex issues with broad and in-depth knowledge. Leads significant projects with strategic autonomy, influences executive decisions, mentors less experienced staff, implements long-term plans impacting the organization, and frequently collaborates with senior leadership.

Supervisor: No.

Education/Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) desired.
  • 5+ years of project and program manager experience in a large corporate environment.
  • Demonstrated back office operations, transformation, program/project management, or capacity planning.
  • Experience working with operational transformation, process redesign, or large‑scale operational support models strongly preferred.
  • Relevant certifications like PMP is desirable

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.


Our Lead Project/Program Mgmt earns between$118,800 - $178,200 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Caregiver Leave
  • Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
  • Adoption Reimbursement
  • Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
  • Life and Accidental Death Insurance
  • Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Extensive employee wellness programs
  • Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories,
  • AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

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Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Dallas, Texas

Salary Range:

$118,800.00 - $178,200.00

About AT&T

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Size
203,000 employees
Market Cap
$131.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$5.1 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+0.6%
Revenue
$171.7 billion
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