Why This Role Exists
DSCX owns 30+ digital products for Defense & Systems. Today our technical product managers wear three hats for their products: product management, project management, and operations. We are dividing that load across three dedicated functions, and this role will build out the product management discipline. This role is planned to have 8-10 direct reports across product managers and UX designers. Your charge is to build a sustainable operating model including standard processes and artifacts, a clear prioritization framework, and a team you coach and train to execute against it. You should be experienced with AI and know where it creates opportunity to expand what the team can deliver.
Environment
The DSCX portfolio runs primarily on AWS, Palantir Foundry, or through SaaS based 3rd party solutions, with on-premise implementations supported for customers whose data sensitivity requires it. Delivery runs through Rally and Microsoft Teams and ServiceNow is our system of record for incident, change, and defect management. Monitoring and alerting tooling varies by application across the portfolio, and consolidating it is part of this organization's work. Vulnerability scanning is owned by the Defense & Systems security organization under the Business Information Security Officer (BISO); our teams are accountable for closing what they report inside the severity SLAs the BISO sets.
The portfolio carries a $25+MM annual budget across 30+ products.
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Strategy and Roadmap
- Own the product roadmap standard used across all DSCX product areas, so roadmaps are consistent and comparable across teams.
- Accountable for a two to three year roadmap (including NorthStar vision) for each product and product area.
- Define the prioritization framework (e.g., RICE) each product manager uses to sequence work, and hold its application consistent.
- Drive feature development one to two quarters ahead and story development one to two sprints ahead, in partnership with Software Engineering.
2. Outcomes and Governance
- Define KPIs, success metrics, and OKRs for each product.
- Run Daily Visual Management for the portfolio. Product health, delivery status, and blockers are visible daily rather than assembled monthly, and you own the KPIs that roll into the monthly operating review.
- Hold the team accountable for measurable outcomes, not feature counts. Every shipped capability needs an answer to what it moved.
3. Technical Product Leadership
- Ensure PRDs and INVEST-quality user stories with clear acceptance criteria across the portfolio.
- Use opportunity solution trees so every roadmap item traces to a business outcome, and require the same of your product managers.
- Partner with Engineering on technical design, sequencing, and delivery within enterprise architecture and data governance standards.
4. Stakeholder and Relationship Management
- Serve as the key product relationship manager for the D&S business, operationalized through a maintained stakeholder map per product area covering who, cadence, and decision rights.
- Run a recurring touchpoint cadence, including monthly business reviews per product line.
- Own the funding and business case pipeline: what has been requested versus approved for each product area.
- Maintain a log of open asks and decisions needed from the business, and drive each to closure.
5. People and Team Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop the product management and UX team; own hiring, performance management, and talent development.
- Set the standard for product craft: discovery, roadmap management, INVEST-quality stories, and outcome accountability.
- Build a bench of product talent and a culture of continuous improvement using FLIGHT DECK, the GE Aerospace lean operating model, latest AI technology, industry product best practices, and user-centric design.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience, OR Associate's degree with a minimum of 13 years of professional experience, OR High School Diploma with a minimum of 15 years of professional experience.
- Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in Technical Product Management and IT.
- Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.
Eligibility Requirement:
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise
- Five or more years leading product managers or product teams, including hiring and performance management.
- Deep expertise in product management for enterprise digital products end to end: discovery, roadmap, backlog, delivery, and value realization.
- Strong knowledge of software design and Agile ways of working (Scrum and Kanban), and fluency partnering with Engineering on technical design and sequencing.
- Proven ownership of a portfolio of products across multiple areas, including the operating model: roadmap standards, prioritization frameworks, and outcome governance.
- Experience with AWS, hybrid cloud and on-premise deployment models, and enterprise SaaS platforms such as Salesforce. Palantir Foundry experience is a strong plus.
Business Acumen
- Breaks down ambiguous problems, documents clear problem statements, and estimates effort credibly.
- Analyzes the impact of technology and sequencing choices on compliance, cost, and efficiency.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive and operational environment in Federal and commercial markets, including how funding and business cases move.
- Familiarity with the compliance environment our products operate in: FAR, DCMA audit readiness, CMMC, CUI, and export control.
Leadership
- Develops people through effective coaching.
- Disagrees with business partners without spending the relationship.
- Sets a high bar and explains the reason behind it.
- Coaches with questions before positions.
- Leads a distributed team on purpose.
Key Success Metrics
- Business value: outcomes realized versus business case; win rate, cycle time, and cost-to-serve improvements across product areas.
- Roadmap health: adherence to committed roadmap and prioritization discipline; feature and story readiness ahead of Engineering.
- Adoption and satisfaction: active user adoption of shipped capabilities; user CSAT and NPS.
- Team and talent: product manager capability growth, retention, and bench strength.
Location and Travel
Location: Cincinnati, OH (Evendale) strongly preferred. You will lead a team that is part hybrid and part fully remote, so a deliberate approach to running distributed product work is part of the job.
Travel: up to 20% for customer discovery, business reviews across Defense and Systems sites including Lynn, Erlanger, Clearwater, Grand Rapids, and Vandalia, and vendor engagement.
Notes:
The base pay range for this position is $176,000 to $270,000 annually. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on November 3rd, 2026.
GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).
Additional InformationGE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). Employees may also be subject to random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college and at least 10 years of professional experience
- Associate's degree and at least 13 years of professional experience
- High school diploma and at least 15 years of professional experience
- At least 7 years of professional experience in technical product management and IT
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without employment visa sponsorship
- Ability to prove U.S. person status for access to export-controlled information
- Five or more years leading product managers or product teams, including hiring and performance management
- Deep expertise in enterprise digital product management across discovery, roadmaps, backlogs, delivery, and value realization
- Strong knowledge of software design and Agile methods, including Scrum and Kanban
- Experience owning a multi-product portfolio operating model
- Experience with AWS, hybrid cloud, on-premise deployments, and enterprise SaaS platforms such as Salesforce
- Palantir Foundry experience
- Familiarity with FAR, DCMA audit readiness, CMMC, CUI, and export controls
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