Staff Technical Product Manager

Join to apply for the Staff Technical Product Manager role at GE Vernova 1 day ago Be among the first 25 applicants Job Description Summary As a member of GE Vernova’s HQ Digital Technology (DT) Enabling Functions team, the TPM (Technical Product Manager) is responsible for working in lock‑step with the domain leaders to create a clear strategic direction for applications and products in our portfolio for key business functions. You will partner with functional stakeholders and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable and ensure the delivery of a product and/or product features and functionalities. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Business Function Partners (Internal Customers), Process Owners, Domain Leaders, Application Managers, Enterprise and Technical Architects, Development and Ops teams. Roles and Responsibilities In This Role, You Will Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape. Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements‑gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback. Works with cross‑functional teams to deliver features and significant products. Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on the product. Routinely collaborates with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas. Demonstrate superior influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and cross‑functional teams. Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short‑term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases. Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1‑2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready. Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs. Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity. Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions. Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work unit. Partners with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process. Expert in Agile Methodology. Education Qualification Bachelor's Degree, with advanced professional experience in DT/IT technical project/program and product management. Desired Characteristics Technical Expertise Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles. Experience working in an Agile environment. Familiarity with versatile implementation options. Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics, such as web technologies, SaaS, APIs, data & analytics, AI, scalability, security, etc. Business Acumen Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems. Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts. Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices. Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment. Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the team, balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market on buy vs build evaluations and decisions, scope MVPs and roadmap, and to drive software product decisions. Leadership Pre‑emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome. Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision‑making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning. Personal Attributes Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross‑functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information. Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable. Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems. Demonstrated ability to lead and execute effectively and proactively amid ambiguity, rapid change, and complex challenges. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and influencing abilities across all organizational levels. Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided: No Seniority level Mid‑Senior level Employment type Full‑time Job function Product Management and Marketing Electric Power Generation #J-18808-Ljbffr