Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to drive product strategy and development efforts. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure alignment on product vision and managing the product backlog to deliver features effectively.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge
- Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback
- Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products
- Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product
- Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions
- Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas
- Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams
- Owns the release 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
- Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs
- Demonstrates strategic expert 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 units
- Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process
- Mentors junior team members
- Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization
- Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others
Skills
- Minimum of 8 years of experience
- Recent exposure to AI tools for innovation in engineering product management processes
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
- Experience with Product Lifecycle Management programs in the development, go-to-market, and end-of-life phases
- 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 caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security
- 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
- Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders
- Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
- Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions
- Working knowledge of the Agile development processes used in GE Digital including feature backlog management in Aha and Engineering Scrum team management for release planning and execution
- Working Knowledge of the technical characteristics of Renewable Energy, Wind and Solar Farms, Energy Storage, Energy Markets, Power Plants, Power Plant Performance and Power Plant Operations
- Experience developing or managing complex products using multiple services, database and application servers
- Familiarity with on-premise and cloud solutions, single server vs. multi server / HA architectures
- Experience troubleshooting customer reported issues
- Familiarity with system tools such as Aha!, Rally, Splunk
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
- Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
- Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.
- Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
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