Sr Staff Technical Product Manager
Detroit, MI - USA
Job Summary
This role is built for a leader who can influence without authority run a disciplined program/project cadence and deliver measurable outcomes. You will modernize and digitize legal processes enable AI and automation and strengthen the companys risk and control posture while improving user experience and operational efficiency.
Secondary scope includes enabling the strategy for ITC (export/trade compliance enablement) and Intellectual Property Management (innovation-to-patent lifecycle management Freedom to Practice and patent analytics).
Key responsibilities
- Own product strategy and the Legal Technology roadmap: Define the multi-quarter strategy and translate it into a sequenced roadmap (epics milestones releases) aligned to business priorities compliance needs and measurable outcomes.
- Lead cross-functional execution (strategy-to-delivery): Drive delivery across engineering architecture cybersecurity privacy legal ops analytics and vendorsensuring on-time high-quality outcomes with clear scope dependencies and release readiness.
- Run structured discovery and VOC: Establish a repeatable cadence (interviews workflow observation data analysis) to identify customer problems validate needs and convert insights into outcomes requirements and success metrics.
- Program/project leadership and operating rhythm: Build and run the delivery operating systemroadmap reviews backlog health sprint/release readiness RAID (risks assumptions issues dependencies) decision logs and stakeholder communications.
- Prioritization and trade-off facilitation: Lead prioritization across intake enhancements incidents remediation and strategic work; make trade-offs explicit and drive alignment on scope sequencing and capacity.
- Technical product ownership with depth: Define product and platform requirements (integrations data access controls auditability non-functional requirements including availability performance and security) and influence solution design.
- Influence architecture and security-by-design outcomes: Partner with architects and security/privacy leaders to ensure solutions meet security privacy regulatory and audit requirements with strong traceability and minimal friction to users.
- Stakeholder leadership without authority: Align Legal leadership and technology stakeholders through crisp narratives executive-ready updates and clear recommendations; manage conflict productively and drive decisions.
- Measurement and value realization: Define KPIs and dashboards that show adoption cycle time reduction control readiness and risk reduction; use insights to continuously improve delivery and product outcomes.
- Vendor/SaaS strategy and delivery oversight: Evaluate tools lead implementation planning manage vendor performance and ensure value realization across adoption utilization cost and risk.
- Secondary ownership (ITC & IP enablement): Partner with ITC and IP stakeholders to set the strategy opportunities prioritize a scalable backlog and deliver incremental improvements that compound over time.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelors degree (or equivalent experience) with minimum 6 years of professional experience OR Associates Degree with minimum of 9 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 11 years of professional experience
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Technical Product Management
- Significant experience intechnical product managementfor enterprise platforms workflow tools or regulated domains
- Demonstrated ability tobuild and execute roadmaps manage backlogs and lead cross-functional delivery
- Strong requirements writing skills; comfortable partnering with engineers/architects on solution design
- Experience operating in environments withsecurity privacy regulatory and auditrequirements
- Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
- Eligibility Requirement: Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this job.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in Legal Technology supporting Legal Operations (e.g. matter management legal intake knowledge management NDA eDiscovery)
- Familiarity with trade compliance / ITC workflows controls or reporting
- Knowledge of intellectual property management processes and patent analytics
- Experience with workflow/automation platforms and integrations (APIs identity/access data governance)
- Strong analytics orientation (product KPIs value measurement adoption tracking)
- Experience managing vendors and SaaS implementations
Desired characteristics
- Executive Presence: Can credibly lead with clarity stay grounded under pressure and build trust with executives
- Strategic operator: Can set direction translate strategy into executable plans and deliver through others
- Influence leader: Builds alignment and drives decisions without formal authority
- Disciplined program execution: Strong planning with daily visual management coupled with proactive escalation and change leadership
- Customer-driven and data-informed: Listens deeply reframes ambiguity into priorities and measures outcomes
- Bias for action with unyielding integrityand continuous improvement mindset
Key skills
- Product strategy and roadmap ownership
- Stakeholder management and executive communication
- Influencing and alignment leadership
- Technical fluency (APIs integrations security-by-design)
- Agile delivery dependency management change management
- Customer discovery VOC and continuous improvement
Success measures (examples)
- Roadmap predictability(on-time milestone completion; reduced delivery variance)
- Adoption and satisfactionwithin Legal teams
- Cycle time reductionfor targeted Legal/ITC workflows and reduced man
- curity/privacy/legal obligations
- Operational efficiency gains(automation rate throughput incident/rework reduction)
- ual effort
- Audit/control readinessimprovements and measurable risk reduction aligned to se
NOTES:
The base pay range for this position is $131000 - $180000 annually. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience education and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on May 31 2026.
Benefit Insert
GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and along with programs like HealthAhead your physical emotional financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program which provides 24/7 confidential assessment counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability insurance life insurance and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e. is a Sponsor). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate amend suspend replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsors welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Aerospace 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 drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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