Job Description Summary
This Staff Technical Product Manager role is responsible for building the strategy and driving execution of digital solutions in the Inspection Technology space, to support GE Aerospace's pursuit of Zero Defect Culture. The person in this role will leverage technology, process, and domain expertise to develop and communicate the product roadmap, deliver product features, enhancement, and bug fixes, and balance customer needs with business strategy. They will meet cybersecurity requirements, lead quality assurance and release processes, and minimize code defects and technical debt.
Specifically, this role will lead product management of a portfolio of business-critical Inspection Technology applications used multiple Supply Chain and MRO sites. Technologies managed include NDT (non-destructive testing) image-based and CMM (coordinate measuring machine) inspections. These inspection technologies and processes are highly regulated and enable the Supply Chain to produce conforming jet engine hardware.
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The right digital solutions and successful implementations can significantly reduce quality risk of our parts and engines. The person in this role will partner closely with Quality leadership to collaboratively define roadmap to meet critical Quality needs across new make Supply Chain and MRO shops to ensure GE Aerospace has best-in-class Inspection Technologies.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Learn required business acumen, stay up to date on latest industry trends, and establish reputation as an internal expert on the product and 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 and significant products.
- Possess a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
- Routinely collaborate with UX in design decisions. Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
- Demonstrate superior influencing skills to ensure alignment between customer, product manager, and engineering teams.
- Own product roadmap, backlog execution, and release management process.
- Create and prioritize user stories in backlog for new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, ensuring 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 with and influence internal development teams or influence vendor development teams to align with backlog priority.
- Own User Acceptance Testing and ensure Quality Assurance to minimize defects in deployments.
- Translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and features.
- Partner with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process.
- Manage application support and development contractors.
- Manage budget for software licenses, maintenance, development, and contractors.
- Mentor junior team members.
- Be an expert in Agile Methodology.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Associates 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 or Inspection Technologies.
- Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
Eligibility Requirement:
-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.
Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise:
- Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Familiarity with versatile implementation options.
Business Acumen:
- Demonstrated 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.
Leadership:
- 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.
Personal Attributes:
- 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.
Additional Information for Candidates in US:
The base pay range for this position is $110,700-$184,600 USD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on April 11th, 2025.
Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor"). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor's welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
Additional Information
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes