Sr Staff Technical Product Manager

Description

• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization. Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.
• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
• 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.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Mentors junior team members.
• 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.
• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Owns the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.

Requirements

• 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.
• Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• 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.
• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Familiarity with versatile implementation options
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• 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.
• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
• 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 technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.
• Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics, such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance