Description:
T-Mobile is in pursuit of exceptional talent to join our executive team. We're committed to excellence and innovation, and we are on the lookout for a leader who can steer our company towards new heights of success. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for driving strategic initiatives and leading a talented team of professionals. The ideal candidate will possess a proven track record of success, demonstrating a keen ability to navigate complex challenges and capitalize on emerging opportunities. As a key member of our executive team, you will play a crucial role in shaping and executing our organizational strategy and contributing to our continued growth and market leadership. Join us in our commitment to driving innovation, inspiring collaboration, fostering a positive company culture, and achieving unparalleled success.The Senior Vice President, Litigation, reporting to the Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel, will be responsible for leading the legal team focused on Government Investigations, Business & Consumer Litigation, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Digital Information & Governance (DIG). The successful candidate will be a key member of the Legal Department leadership team and will work and partner closely with Senior Executive business leaders across the company. This leader must be a highly effective strategic thinker and tactical implementer with a history of delivering results. This SVP will lead and manage a large in-house team of professionals, along with a select group of outside counsel.
Un-carrier® Responsibilities
The Experience You'll Bring:
Enough about what you've done. Let's talk about who you are.
- Active member of the Legal Affairs Leadership Team.
- Builds and sustains a broad network of trusted relationships within T-Mobile, establishing a reputation for credibility, reliability, and collaborative partnership that amplifies their impact and the team's effectiveness.
- Build a broad network of trusted external relationships.
- Has the analytical abilities, insights, and experience to counsel and guide the company on pressing legal, regulatory and compliance matters within their domain, including in consultation with GC.
- Ensures the team has fluency in AI and drives adoption of technology (including AI) that can improve quality and cost-effectiveness within Legal Affairs group.
- Actively drives the company's business objectives related to their functional area with the tools, resources, and expertise available to the Legal Affairs department.
- Helps convey the company's strategic vision and culture to their team to activate and support a healthy, aligned, and highly effective department.
- Assembles, leads, and inspires a talented and high-functioning leadership team.
- The architect of organizational design strategies within their organization.
- Has a vision for where their organization is headed and well-developed understanding of how the work of the department, and the demands it faces, may change, grow, or retract.
- Manages budget, resources, and workforce planning strategies across their team and function, making informed trade-offs to optimize cost, quality, and business impact.
- Communicates with clarity, conviction, and executive presence across a range of audiences and settings – adapting style and message to connect effectively whether speaking to their team, business clients, senior leadership, or external counterparts in their domain.
- Operates with strong executive discipline – managing time, priorities, and workload with the structure and efficiency expected of a senior leader across a complex, high-demand portfolio.
- Serves as a skilled and credible negotiator on legal matters within their domain, balancing legal risk and business objectives to drive favorable outcomes for the company.
- Maintains deep and current expertise in Litigation, Labor and Employment, Antitrust & Intellectual Property, providing sound, practical legal counsel that reflects both command of the law and a sophisticated understanding of the business context in which legal issues arise.
The Experience You'll Bring:
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree required and active state bar license.
- 12+ years of extensive experience leading complex, high-stakes litigation, including matters involving billions of dollars in risk exposure.
- Experience managing government investigations, antitrust matters, intellectual property, and labor & employment matters.
- Demonstrated experience advising C-suite executives and senior leadership on legal strategy and risk mitigation.
- Experience managing outside counsel relationships, negotiating outside counsel rates, and managing a legal department budget.
- Proven experience leading and developing legal teams, including organizational design and succession planning.
- Experience driving adoption of AI and other technologies within a legal function.
Enough about what you've done. Let's talk about who you are.
- Sophisticated, nuanced strategic thinking and sound legal judgment.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with and influence senior executives, driving alignment on complex, high-stakes issues.
- Strong communicator, able to distill complex legal and risk topics for executive and board-level audiences.
- Collaborative, yet decisive under pressure.
- Comfortable operating with significant autonomy and ownership over high-stakes decisions.
- Agile and adaptive in a fast-changing legal, regulatory, and business environment.
- Analytical problem solver who balances legal risk with business objectives.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex, concurrent matters.