Senior Technical Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Accountable for collaborating closely with product management teams to establish a distinct strategic direction for development needs and communicates that vision to the build and/or operations team.

• You will lead the team with a comprehensive and detailed set of requirements and collaborate with the team to assess what can be accomplished by balancing the demand for new features, defects, and technical debt.

• Your main focus is on ensuring seamless integration and alignment of viewpoints from a diverse group of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners, and Developers.

• Exhibit exceptional product and industry expertise, helping the organization to secure a competitive advantage.

• Engages with customers/stakeholders in gathering VOC requirements, refining, and acquiring product feedback.

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

• Holds a profound understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.

• Frequently collaborates with UX, Architecture, and engineering teams on various issues and decisions.

• Conducts interviews with customers and stakeholders and elaborates on personas.

• Exhibits expert persuasion and influencing skills to ensure alignment among customers, product managers, and engineering teams.

• Manages the release and sprint backlogs for short-term roadmaps for MVPs and quarterly releases.

• Owns and organizes the backlog; continuously prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of the backlog are always prepared.

• Prioritizes continuously based on understanding and validating customer problems and needs.

• Demonstrates strategic expert-level skills in problem decomposition and adeptness in navigating ambiguity.

• Regularly engages (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarifications, story acceptance and refinement, testing, and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.

• Converts unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.

• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure a healthy development process.

• Mentors junior team members.

• Provides technical leadership to TPMs across the organization.

• Proficient in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience.

• Recent exposure to AI tools for driving innovation in engineering product management processes.

• Bachelor's degree.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Strong interpersonal and leadership abilities.

• Proven capability to analyze and resolve issues.

• Experience with Product Lifecycle Management programs throughout development, go-to-market, and end-of-life phases.

• Solid understanding of software design and coding principles.

• Experience in an Agile work environment.

• Familiarity with diverse implementation options.

• Demonstrates knowledge of technical subjects such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security.

• Shows initiative in exploring alternative technologies and approaches for problem-solving.

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements, and estimating efforts.

• Capable of analyzing the impact of technology decisions.

• Proficient in negotiating to align stakeholders and communicate a unified perspective to the scrum team.

• Balances value propositions among competing stakeholders.

• Displays knowledge of the competitive landscape.

• Understands market technologies to inform buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and drive market timing decisions.

• Familiar with Agile development processes utilized in GE Digital, including feature backlog management in Aha and Engineering Scrum team management for release planning and execution.

• Knowledgeable about the technical characteristics of Renewable Energy, Wind and Solar Farms, Energy Storage, Energy Markets, Power Plants, Power Plant Performance, and Power Plant Operations.

• Experience in developing or managing complex products utilizing multiple services, databases, and application servers.

• Familiar with both on-premise and cloud solutions, as well as single server vs. multi-server/HA architectures.

• Experienced in troubleshooting customer-reported issues.

• Knowledgeable in system tools like Aha!, Rally, and Splunk.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

• Access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource.

• 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, along with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.

• Tuition assistance.

• Adoption assistance.

• Paid parental leave.

• Disability benefits.

• Life insurance.

• 12 paid holidays.

• Permissive time off.