T-Mobile

Senior Director, Product Design & User Experience

T-Mobile$224K — $303K *
Consumer Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in product experience, UX/UI design, or digital product leadership, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.
  • Proven ability to develop product experience strategies and lead human-centered design initiatives.
  • Familiarity with mobile and web digital products, design systems, and customer research methodologies.
  • Preferred experience in telecom or large-scale digital platforms.
  • Expertise in governance of enterprise-scale design systems and accessibility standards, including hands-on design ownership.
  • Proven track record of driving business outcomes through digital product experience and data analysis.
  • Strong communication skills with a knack for influencing senior leadership and facilitating cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the design strategy across all digital channels to align with growth and engagement goals.
  • Own and develop scalable design systems and accessibility standards to ensure product compliance and quality.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of design and research professionals.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to create intuitive customer experiences that drive conversion and retention.
  • Establish KPIs that connect design performance to business metrics like conversion and user engagement.
  • Participate in enterprise governance committees or special projects as required.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with employee stock grants and stock purchase plan.
  • Generous paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays annually.
  • Paid parental and family leave, along with family building assistance.
  • Tuition assistance and educational coaching.
  • Comprehensive disability and life insurance options.
  • Discounts on mobile services and home internet.
Full Job Description
The Sr Director, Product Design & User Experience defines and executes T-Mobile's enterprise design vision across all digital channels, including T-Life, Web, assisted, Conversational Design, Digital Accessibility, and User Research. This role owns the end-to-end user experience strategy for how 140M customers interact with T-Mobile's digital ecosystem from design systems and accessibility governance to research-driven decision-making and experience performance KPIs. Reporting to the SVP, Product Management, this leader is accountable for driving conversion, engagement, unassisted adoption, and brand differentiation through best-in-class digital product experience at enterprise scale.

  • Define and execute the enterprise experience strategy across all digital channels, ensuring alignment to growth, engagement, and unassisted adoption goals. Establish the end-to-end design vision and governance model that shapes how T-Mobile delivers digital experiences to our customers.
  • Own enterprise design systems and accessibility governance: develop and maintain scalable design systems, WCAG-compliant accessibility standards, and conversational design frameworks that ensure consistency, speed, compliance, and quality across all product platforms.
  • Lead and scale the Product Experience organization: build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Product Designers, Conversational Designers, Accessibility specialists, and User Researchers. Establish operating rhythms and talent development plans to measure success.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, CARE, Retail, Data, and Finance leaders to translate strategy into intuitive experiences that improve conversion, containment, engagement, and retention.
  • Establish and track experience performance metrics, defining KPIs that link design outcomes to business results, including conversion lift, MAU growth, churn reduction, CPA impact and task completion rates.
  • May be required to serve on cross-functional enterprise technology governance committees or special projects as assigned.


The Experience You'll Bring
  • 12+ years of relevant experience in product experience, UX/UI design, product design, or digital product leadership, with 5+ years leading teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to set product experience strategy, lead human-centered design practices, improve customer journeys, and partner effectively with executive collaborators.
  • Experience with mobile and web digital products, design systems, customer research, and data-driven decision-making.
  • Industry experience in telecom, consumer technology, or large-scale digital platforms preferred.
  • Experience building and governing enterprise-scale design systems and accessibility standards (WCAG and international guidelines), including hands-on ownership of experiential design (motion, emotion, transition consistency) across consumer-facing digital journeys.
  • Experience institutionalizing user research, usability validation, and insight generation across the product lifecycle, ensuring design and product investments are evidence-based and tied to measurable outcomes.
  • Advanced experience with design execution, rapid prototyping, and creative workflow/asset management systems.
  • Proven track record driving measurable business outcomes (acquisition, interest, unassisted adoption) through consumer-facing digital product experience, including direct accountability to senior leadership on experience KPIs and strong analytical skills to synthesize product usage data into design decisions.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate at an executive level, effectively influence at an enterprise level and successfully sponsor/lead complex, cross-functional initiatives with SVP+ level visibility and accountability.
  • Track record of attracting, developing, and retaining high-performing design, research, and accessibility talent, including experience building and leading distributed people-manager structures.
  • Experience establishing operating rhythms, governance frameworks, and performance standards for a multi-disciplinary product design and experience organization.
  • Experience with Agile backlog/project management tools.
  • Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, UX/UI Design, Business, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Master's degree or MBA preferred.


Enough about what you've done. Let's talk about who you are.
  • Ability to communicate effectively across team and organizational boundaries to drive and develop consensus
  • Demonstrated ability to identify/analyze/synthesize product use data and use the data to drive decisions
  • Strong cross-functional change leadership experience with ability to set the change agenda, and lead through organizational change
  • Listen and understand a variety of points of view balancing concerns with data for better decision making
  • Analytical problem solver; applies multiple technical solutions to application operational problems
  • Collaborative, yet influential
  • Flexible, self-starter, and comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment
  • Desire for a high level of responsibility and ownership and ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Creative problem solver and solutions provider
  • Ability to prioritize multiple projects; detail oriented and organized
  • A creative and forward thinker; entrepreneurial; is encouraged by innovation and is not afraid to take risks
  • Ability to influence and gain consensus at all levels; possesses executive maturity

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:

Travel Required (Yes/No):

DOT Regulated:

DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No

Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No):No

Base Pay Range: $224,000 - $303,000

Corporate Bonus Target: 35%

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 qualifications and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. 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.

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 www.t-mobilebenefits.com.

Never stop growing!
As part of the T-Mobile team, you know the Un-carrier doesn't have a corporate ladder-it's more like a jungle gym of possibilities! We love helping our employees grow in their careers, because it's that shared drive to aim high that drives our business and our culture forward. By applying for this career opportunity, you're living our values while investing in your career growth-and we applaud it. You're unstoppable!

About T-Mobile

T-Mobile US, Inc. is a wireless company. As of December 31, 2016, the Company provided wireless communications services, including voice, messaging and data, to over 71 million customers in the postpaid, prepaid and wholesale markets. It provides services, devices and accessories across its brands, T-Mobile and MetroPCS. It provides wireless communication services through a range of service plan options. The Company offers a device trade-in program, Just Upgrade My Phone (JUMP!), which provides customers a specified-price trade-in credit and upgrade eligibility after approximately six months of service; Equipment Installment Plan (EIP), which is designed to provide financing to customers for the purchase of devices, and installment agreements for accessories; T-Mobile Tuesdays, which offers customers free stuff and access to various offers from brands; and T-Mobile ONE and Simple Choice plans.
Learn more about T-Mobile
Size
75,000 employees
Market Cap
$174.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3 billion
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+16.4%
Revenue
$68.3 billion
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