Job Description Summary

Job Description

Company Overview

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective innovative spirit drive and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!

Site Overview

Established in 2000 the John F. Welch Technology Center (JFWTC) in Bengaluru is GE Aerospaces multidisciplinary research and engineering center. Pushing the boundaries of innovation every day engineers and scientists at JFWTC have contributed to hundreds of aviation patents pioneering breakthroughs in engine technologies advanced materials and additive manufacturing.

Role Overview:

In this role you will:

• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization gain competitive edge.

• Demonstrate complete understanding of the underlying Engineering business processes their criticality end-user needs and end-user pain-points.

• 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.

• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.

• Routinely collaborates with UX Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.

• Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.

• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer product manager and engineering teams.

• Owns the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for all releases.

• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 2-3 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.

• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.

• Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity. Leverage GE Aerospace Flight Deck for product management activities with relentless focus on customer value and continuous improvement.

• 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 units.

• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.

• Mentors junior team members.

• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization. Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in STEM or a relevant domain with significant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Familiarity with versatile implementation options

• Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics such as caching APIs data transfer scalability and security

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

• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders

• Demonstrate knowledge of the competitive environment

• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations scope MVPs and to drive market timing decisions

Leadership:

• 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.

• 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. Participate 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 others toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives new directions towards 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.

Additional Information:

Whether we are manufacturing components for our engines driving innovation in fuel and noise reduction or unlocking new opportunities to grow and deliver more productivity our GE Aerospace teams are dedicated and making a global impact. Join us and help move the aerospace industry forward.

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