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GE Vernova · 1 day ago

Sr Staff Technical Product Manager

Niskayuna

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$120K/yr - $200K/yr

7+ years exp

GE Vernova is dedicated to addressing the climate crisis and electrifying the world while helping to decarbonize it. In this role, you will own a portfolio of applications and work closely with stakeholders to ensure a clear strategic direction for development needs, managing software vendors and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver complex products.

EnergyEnergy EfficiencySustainability

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

Manage and coordinate software vendors guaranteeing that all deliverables provided are aligned with agreed requirements and targets

Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products

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

Lead the roadmap, feature definition, planning, and life cycle for all products and services in your scope

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

Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product

Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process

Engage frequently with the operations and development teams; 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

Responsible for maintaining the technical health of the products, applications, and services in your scope of work

Manage day-to-day execution of multiple interdependent projects by working directly with cross functional team and/or performing hands on technical tasks

Qualification

Product ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementProject ManagementTechnical KnowledgeAnalytical SkillsVendor ManagementChange ManagementCoachingCommunication SkillsTeam CollaborationMentoring

Required

Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university and 7+ years of relevant experience; or, High School Diploma / GED and 10+ years of relevant experience

Preferred

Ability to work with external vendors

Experience working with others on a global basis

Strong team player – collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources

Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity

Applies knowledge to coach and mentor others

Demonstrated customer focus – evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer, builds strong customer relationships, creates processes with customer viewpoint and partners with customers to help shape their future initiatives

Strong analytical and strong problem-solving skills, communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information / data to make decisions, anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve, creates actionable strategies and operational plans

Change oriented – actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly

Significant project management experience with PMP, ScrumMaster or related Project Management certifications as a plus