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GE Aerospace · 7 hours ago

Sr Staff Technical Product Manager- D&S Avionics Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, MI

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

5+ years exp

GE Aerospace is a leading company in the aviation sector, seeking a Sr Staff Technical Product Manager to drive strategic direction for product development. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver complex products while ensuring alignment with customer needs and stakeholder perspectives.

AerospaceCommercialManufacturing

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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

Qualification

Agile MethodologySoftware Design PrinciplesTechnical LeadershipSTEM ExperienceProblem DecompositionCustomer EngagementCross-functional CollaborationMentoring SkillsNegotiation SkillsCritical Thinking

Required

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

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

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))

Preferred

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

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

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. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems