Sr. Staff Technical Product Manager

Job Description SummaryAs the Sr. Staff Technical Product Manager, you will be focused on a portfolio of products within Digital Thread Engineer (DTE). You will manage relationships with business stakeholders in Engineering, Supply Chain and Commercial & Services in order to provide digital solutions.
You will be responsible for operating in lockstep with product management teams to create a clear strategic direction for development needs and conveys that vision to the build and/or operations team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners and Developers.

Job Description

In this role you will:

• Develop a working knowledge of manufacturing terminology and processes.
• Create test cases and acceptance criteria based on standard use cases.
• Communicate progress and challenges effectively to Digital and Business leadership.
• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.
• Interact with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
• Possess a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
• Collaborate with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
• Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
• Demonstrate expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Own the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Own and manage 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.
• Demonstrate strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engage frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contribute to design activities and decisions.
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partner with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization. Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR associate's degree with minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 10 years of professional experience
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field.
• 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.

The base pay range for this position is $127,900- $213,200. 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 4, 2024.

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, 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 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 planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. 

General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their 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.

Note:

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

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