Principal, Career Pathing & Internal Mobility Strategy

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 empower leaders to drive change in a fast-evolving, connected world. Your strategic vision will help serve customers and transform lives through innovative solutions and impactful connections.

The Principal, Career Pathing & Internal Mobility Strategy designs and advances the enterprise strategy that connects employees to career growth, capability development, and internal movement opportunities. This role leads career pathing, skills and capability mapping, cross-functional growth pathways, and mobility programs that help employees navigate opportunities and support informed talent decisions.

Reporting to the AVP, Career & Development Enablement, this role turns enterprise talent strategy into scalable career and mobility experiences that improve visibility into growth opportunities, support workforce agility, and educate and empower employees to make informed career decisions. The role partners closely with Talent Acquisition, HR business partners, workforce planning, analytics, and business leaders.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain the enterprise career pathing strategy, including vertical and lateral growth pathways, career navigation models, and frameworks that help employees understand how roles connect.

• Define the skills, capabilities, experiences, and learning needed for movement, ensuring the approach is scalable, practical, and easy for employees, managers, and HR partners to use.

• Develop career progression strategies and tools that help employees see how they can grow within a function or move into adjacent roles.

• Partner across HR to translate role and talent information into clear career guidance, including skills-based pathways, capability insights, and AI-enabled career experiences that support development and mobility.

• Create capability maps that define the skills, knowledge, and experiences needed across key career pathways.

• Translate them into growth tools and guidance that help employees build toward future roles, recognize transferable capabilities, and take informed action on their development and mobility options.

• Lead the design of internal mobility programs and processes that make it easier for employees to be considered for roles, stretch assignments, and development opportunities.

• Define principles for how talent is identified, assessed, and surfaced while supporting transparency, agility, and a strong employee experience.

• Build frameworks that connect talent designations, readiness signals, and development trajectories to deployment decisions.

• Partner with talent planning and succession stakeholders to ensure these insights are used consistently and aligned with business need.

• Partner with the talent planning team to integrate readiness information into career movement, development planning, and deployment decisions.

• Help define how readiness should be interpreted and applied across broader talent processes.

• Establish governance, standards, and operating principles for career pathing and mobility frameworks.

• Drive consistency in methodology and language while enabling adoption through guidance, toolkits, and enablement materials.

• Partner with analytics and talent stakeholders to define metrics, interpret trends, and turn findings into recommendations that improve career visibility, employee growth, and mobility outcomes.

• Serve as a senior advisor to HR and business leaders on career architecture, mobility design, and talent deployment.

• Build strong cross-functional partnerships and influence decisions through expertise, credibility, and enterprise perspective.

• Exercise sound judgment and discretion in handling sensitive employee and workforce information, while maintaining high standards of professionalism, confidentiality, and data stewardship.

Qualifications

Experience

• Strong program/project management experience

• Experience designing enterprise-scale frameworks

• Expertise in internal mobility strategy and linking talent insights to deployment decisions

• Success leading enterprise initiatives in complex, matrixed organizations

• Strong stakeholder influence, facilitation, and communication skills

• Experience translating strategy into scalable talent processes, tools, and governance

• Cross-functional collaboration and executive communication

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years in talent management, workforce strategy, organization effectiveness, career architecture, internal mobility, or related HR disciplines

• Experience in large, matrixed enterprise environments

• Familiarity with job architecture, capability frameworks, and workforce planning

• Experience using talent data to shape career development and mobility strategy

• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate business needs into framework design

Our Principal, Career Pathing & Internal Mobility Strategy earns between $130,700 - $196,100 USD. 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

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Dallas, Texas

Salary Range:

$130,700.00 - $196,100.00

It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.