Staff Technical Product Manager

GE Aerospace is a leader in aviation technology, and they are seeking a Staff Technical Product Manager to oversee the successful delivery of key New Product Introductions (NPI) projects. This role involves managing the digital strategy and roadmap for the Mosaic project, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Own the CI for a SaaS product & closely partner will T&O FLIGHT DECK team to build a robust strategy & roadmap for the virtual obeya product
• Partner with external FDEs (Forward Deployed Engineers) to deliver on all aspects of the roadmap for this product
• Be responsible for coordination & help project manage a few more key ongoing NPI projects
• Partner with architects in the org to build architecture & take these projects through the necessary Cyber & Legal reviews through the RMF process
• Demonstrate excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape
• Interact with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver features
• Learn the technology tech stack and drive impactful conversations with external FDEs
• Routinely collaborate with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas
• Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, stakeholders, and engineering teams
• Own the releases 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 level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity
• Engage frequently with the development team; facilitate 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 unit
• Partner with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process
• Expert in Agile Methodology/ iDNA methodology for software development

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR associate's degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 9 years of professional experience
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Technical Product Management
• 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
• Expert in Agile Methodology/ iDNA methodology for software development
• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with versatile implementation options
• 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
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
• 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
• Ability to present/ communicate with multiple sets of stakeholders
• 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