BESS Product Manager - New Product Development

Job Description Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a product manager with experience or interest in BESS to join a growing team and shape the future of battery energy storage at GE Vernova. The BESS Product Manager - New Product Development role will focus on developing new BESS products for use in all of GE Vernova's target markets, including datacenters, standalone, and hybrid (BESS + generation) applications. Upon product launch, the BESS Product Manager will manage the product for a period of time before handing off the established product to the sustaining product management team and turning focus back to developing the next product.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead BESS augmentation product development from product ideation, stage gate process, and through to implementation and management.
• Develop business cases and make decisions about target markets, new technologies, and strategy across the global footprint of GE Vernova.
• Accountability for functional, business, and broad company objectives. Integrate and develop processes that meet business needs across the organization, be involved in long-term planning, manage complex issues within functional area of expertise, and contribute to the overall business strategy.
• Broadening knowledge of own sales territory, product lines, markets, sales processes, or customer groups to execute policy/strategy. Still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills.
• Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• May have some autonomy to make decisions within a defined framework. Resolves issues in situations that require commercial knowledge and judgment within established procedures. Consults more senior team members for issues outside of defined instructions/parameters.
• Travel up to 25% as needed, including to customer sites, project sites, and manufacturing facilities. Most travel will be domestic but on occasion, international travel will be required.

• Bachelor's degree in science or engineering from an accredited university
• 2+ years of BESS experience, either from engineering or product management.
• 6+ total years of work experience in a professional environment, with applicable skill development and experience to the role.

• Interest in both engineering and business development.
• MBA or business education or experience strongly preferred.
• Strong preference for candidates with prior product management experience with large and high-cost products in a B2B environment.
• Experience in BESS, program management, stage gate processes, LEAN startup methodology.
• Track record of working with salespeople and performing well in front of customers.
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.