Staff Technical Product Manager

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 the 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.

Job Description

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.