Job Description Summary

This job has the responsibility for working as a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Digital Thread Engineer (DTE) space in lock-step with application or domain leaders to create a clear strategic direction that will be delivered by the product development team. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of product features and functionality. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Customers, End-Users, Process Owners, Enterprise Architects, Application Managers, Development teams and Technical Architects.

Job Description

• Demonstrate complete understanding of the underlying Engineering business processes, their criticality, end-user needs, and end-user pain-points.
• Leverage GE Aerospace Flight Deck for product management activities with relentless focus on customer value and continuous improvement.
• Interact with customers / end-users / stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver features and products.
• Show increasing understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.
• Routinely collaborate with UX Design to know customers / end-users and understand behaviors.
• Conduct customer / end-user and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
• Demonstrate the ability to influence customers / end-users and product managers through persuasion and influencing.
• Collaborate with PM for the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Own and manage the backlog; continuously order and prioritize to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer / end-user problems and needs.
• Collaborate with Product Managers/TPMs to decompose features into consumable user stories.
• Engage frequently (50% of the time) 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 units.
• Partner with Service Owners / Development Managers to ensure healthy development process.
• Apply Agile Methodology.

• Experience / exposure to GE Aerospace Engineering processes.
• Experience in Digital Product Management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to create and execute short term product roadmaps.
• For roles outside of the USA - This role requires experience in Digital Technology & Technical Product Management. Knowledge level is comparable to a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college with advanced experience.
• For roles in USA - Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED) with at least 4 years of experience.

• 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 understanding of Aerospace Engineering business processes.
• 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.

• Cross-functional expertise developed through rotational leadership programs will be an added benefit.
• 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.