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 seem