Seniorr Technical Product Manager

GE is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

You will operate in lock-step with product management to bridge the business and technical worlds and create a clear strategic direction for Predix.io – the user facing website for the Predix Platform. You will convey that vision to the service’s scrum team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements captured as stories and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt.

* Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners and Developers. * In this role, you will: * Work with cross-functional teams to deliver features and products * Own the short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases * Prioritize continuously in according with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs * Engage frequently (80%) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities * Own and manage the backlog; continuously order and prioritize to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog is always ready * Collaborate with Design to know customers and understand behaviors * Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas * Partner with the Service Owner to ensure healthy development process * Apply Agile principles to translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units through problem decomposition and planning * Show increasing understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product * Demonstrate ability to influence customers and product managers through persuasion and influencing

**Qualifications/Requirements:** * Bachelor’s Degree in business, computer science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) * A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in product management and developing Internet products and technologies OR Master’s degree with 3 years of experience in product management and developing Internet products and technologies. **Eligibility Requirements:** * Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. GE may agree to sponsor an individual for an employment visa now or in the future if there is a shortage of individuals with particular skills. * Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen * Must be willing to work out of an office located in San Ramon, CA **Additional Eligibility Qualifications** * 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 background investigation and drug screen. **Desired Characteristics** * **Technical Expertise:** * Experience with building web sites, web applications and/or multi-tiered distributed applications programming * Experience with managing the development life cycle from start to finish on software projects ideally in GEs Industrial Domains (Energy Management, Oil & Gas, Power & Water, Aviation, etc…) * Experience working in Agile engineering environment including leading Scrum * **Business Acumen:** * Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts * Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends * Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices * Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. * **Leadership:** * Ability to takes ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members * Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results * Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct * Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives * **Personal Attributes:** * Strong oral and written communication skills * Strong interpersonal skills * Effective team building and problem solving abilities * Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit