Staff Technical Product Manager

Job Description Summary

Quality Suite Architect and Functional owner.

Responsible for working in lock-step with application or domain leaders acting as a senior technical product manager to create a clear strategic direction that will be delivered by the product development team. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of product features and functionality. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Customers, Process Owners, Enterprise Architects, Application Managers, Development teams and Technical Architects.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.

• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and products.

• Shows increasing understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.

• Routinely collaborates with UX Design to know customers and understand behaviors.

• Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.

• Demonstrates ability to influence customers and product managers through persuasion and influencing.

• Collaborates with PM for 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.

• Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.

• Collaborates with Product Managers/TPMs to decompose features into consumable user stories.

• 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.

• Need to have good understanding of Cloud Services (AWS or Azure) to support the development team, create scalable architecture and propose technical solutions.

• Collaborate with GE Vernova security and solution architect team to follow the SoP (Standard Operating Procedure) like security scan, OSS, SAST, DAST and environment vulnerability management.

• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work unit.

• Partners with Service Owners/ Development Managers to ensure healthy development process.

• Applies Agile Methodology.

Desired Characteristics

• Clear communicator – excellent influencing, interpersonal & communication skills (both written & verbal) with all levels of an organization. Ability to synthesize & communicate complex technology topics to all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated customer focus – partners closely with customers, evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer, builds strong customer relationships & delivers value from the customer viewpoint.

• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills – communicates in a clear & succinct manner. Effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions. Anticipates obstacles & develops plans to resolve. Creates actionable strategies & operational plans.

• Dynamic & inclusive team player – collaborates well with others to solve problems & actively incorporates inputs from various stakeholders. Influences, energises & motivates others towards the common vision & goal. Maintains excitement for a process & drives to new directions of meeting the goal in the face of unfavorable odds & setbacks.

• Technology enthusiast – passion & understanding of current & emerging technologies, demonstrated through training, job experience & industry activities.

• Change oriented – actively generates process improvements, champions & drives change initiatives. Confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways. Balances multiple competing priorities & executes accordingly.

• Critical thinker – uses critical thinking skills & disciplined approaches to help leaders & leadership teams resolve issues & define solutions.

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

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 caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security

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
• 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

Leadership:

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. 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 Vernova. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Additional Information

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position