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Sr Staff Technical Product Manager

Ge Vernova

The Role

Overview

Drive product strategy, backlog, and cross‑functional delivery of complex technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • backlog management
  • sprint planning
  • agile coaching
  • release roadmap
  • story translation
  • technical leadership

Tasks

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

Requirements

  • apis
  • scalability
  • agile
  • critical thinking
  • negotiation
  • strategic

What You Bring

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

The Company

About Ge Vernova

-Traces roots back to Edison and Alstom, merging power, renewable, digital & financial wings. -Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, crafts large-scale gas turbines, SMRs, wind turbines, hydro and grid tech to fuel economies. -On the nuclear front, advancing small modular reactors (like BWRX‑300) in partnership with utilities and supporting semiconductor projects. -Wind prowess spans onshore, offshore and blade making—with key sites like Dogger Bank offshore and blade plants in Spain. -Electrification arm tackles grid stability: HVDC, transformers, storage, conversion, plus GridOS software powering smarter infrastructure. -Weaves finance and consulting through energy-infrastructure investments, funding solar farms to pipelines via GE Energy Financial Services.

Sector Specialisms

Power

Gas Power

Steam Power

Nuclear

Hydro Power

Wind

Onshore Wind

Offshore Wind

Electrification Systems

Power Conversion and Storage

Grid Solutions

Electrification Software