Staff Technical Product Manager

Job Profile Summary

Responsible for operating in lock-step with product management to create a clear strategic direction for build needs for a products in your teams portfolio. You will work with the team and 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: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners and Developers.

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will: 

• 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.  
• 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 in with advanced experience. 

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.  

Learn more at:  www.velotic.com