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Job Description Summary

Responsible for operating in lock-step with product line leaders and peer product managers to create a clear strategic roadmap for products within the teams portfolio. You will work with a global team to deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of a products features and functionality. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Executive Leaders, Subject Matter Experts, Product Managers, Technical Anchors and Developers.

Your primary focus will be the management of product(s) within a platform called Digital Thread Engineer (DTE). This platform supports a multitude of products used by thousands of GE Aviation Engineers. You will work across your product manager peers to drive product consensus with a relentless pursuit of reusability.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Owns the strategic plans for new reusable components

• Obtains a deep understanding in the persona's utilizing the platform

• Demonstrates 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.

• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.

• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.

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

• Routinely collaborates 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, product manager and engineering teams.

• Owns the releases 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.

• Accountability for product cyber compliance and regulatory remediation plans.

• Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.

• Demonstrates strategic 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 unit.

• Partners with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process.

• Mentors junior team members.

• Expert in Agile Methodology.

Education Qualification

• 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 IT

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:

• 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

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.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights_10_20.pdf) . 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 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: No