Senior Project Manager

DISH

3.4

Littleton, CO

Why you should apply for a job to DISH:

  • 4.1/5 in supportive management

  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • DISH invests in their employees with profit sharing – on top of 401(k) matching

  • DISH’s Paid Protected Time allows employees flexible time off for anything from vacation to emergencies or other extenuating circumstances

  • The Employee Assistance Plan is available to all employees & offers free, 1-on-1 counseling with experienced consultants available 24/7

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    Position summary

    Department Summary

    At Boost Mobile, we deliver value without compromise, continually redefining what’s possible from a mobile carrier for more than nine million customers.

    Our teams reimagine connectivity through new platforms, new business models and new ways of thinking. Today, we’re building a multi-brand wireless telco alongside DISH and its first-of-a-kind network to upend the retail market and deliver groundbreaking new experiences for all. 

    Together, we’ll draw on our legacies of disruption to change the way the world communicates.

    Job Duties and Responsibilities

    DISH is transforming the future of connectivity. We’re doing it by building the country’s first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from scratch. The foundation of a connected world, it’s a network free of the limitations of the past, and flexible enough to satisfy all the social, economic and transformative needs of the changing world.

    Equipped with Boost Mobile and its 9 million customers as the newest part of the DISH brand, we’re setting our sights on competing in the prepaid and postpaid retail wireless market as the nation’s fourth facilities-based mobile carrier.

    This Sr. Project Manager will be working within the Boost Mobile Platform and Project Management Team under the Boost Operations team. They will be working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment spanning the Boost Mobile and broader Dish organizations. 

    Responsibilities:

    • Provide effective leadership, drive successful, on-time delivery of launch, schedule, scope and budget for strategic initiatives for Infinite and Executive mandate, high visibility complex projects 

    • Launch planning coordination and support including warranty period

    • Effectively manage and resolve risks or issues in a timely manner

    • Conduct and lead team meetings to effectively achieve project goals; obtain feedback and approvals for requirements documents

    • Provide accurate, current project status and updates to team and Executives

    • Be the business lead/POC representative into IT teams collaborating to ensure all appropriate business team members are included in requirements, use cases, and customer experience meetings, as necessary

    • Be a business advocate with various IT and other cross functional teams. This will require understanding of the products and services being requested and the impacts to the business 

    • Create a culture of sharing/learning and motivating amongst team members and cross-functional teams; build team relationships

    Skills, Experience and Requirements

    • BA/BS in a technical or business discipline, or
    • 8-10 years of Project Manager, or equivalent combination of education and experience
    • Experience launching products and services to the consumer market
    • Excellent organizational, facilitation, and written/verbal communication skills required
    • Ability to extract, document and manage cross functional team tasks to completion
    • Ability to matrix manage cross functional team members 
    • Self-motivated with strong, proven, analytical and problem-solving skills
    • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional resources and work well in a rapidly changing environment
    • Ability to extract, document and manage cross functional technical and Marketing team tasks to completion
    • Ability to advocate for business needs while keeping projects on track
    • Experience in the wireless industry preferred

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    Salary Range

    Compensation: $65,800.00/Year - $94,000.00/Year
    Compensation and Benefits

    We also offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits.   

    The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check.

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    What are DISH perks and benefits

    Lactation facilities

    Post maternity

    Fertility

    On-ramping/Off-ramping parental leave

    Care-taking PTO

    Elder care

    Unconscious bias training

    Sponsorship program

    Networking

    Diversity recruiting

    Diversity performance

    Remote work policy

    Part time policy

    Short term disability

    About the company

    Industry: Telecommunications

    Our adventure began by changing the way people watched TV, bringing DISH to where big cable wouldn’t: rural America. Since then, we have reinvented ourselves and our own industry with Sling TV to give millions of consumers more choice in entertainment. Today, we’ve officially entered the consumer wireless industry as the fourth largest wireless provider with our acquisitions of Boost Mobile, Ting Mobile ...

    Why you should apply for a job to DISH:

  • 4.1/5 in supportive management

  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • DISH invests in their employees with profit sharing – on top of 401(k) matching

  • DISH’s Paid Protected Time allows employees flexible time off for anything from vacation to emergencies or other extenuating circumstances

  • The Employee Assistance Plan is available to all employees & offers free, 1-on-1 counseling with experienced consultants available 24/7