Sr Staff Product Manager, Asset Performance Management

Job Posting

Areas that support the identification and development of the product offerings for the business. Impacts approaches, projects, and programs in the functional area. Responsible for creating a clear strategic direction for development needs and initiatives related to the APM Reliability portfolio and conveys that vision to the broader organization, build and / or operations team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt.

Accountability for functional, business, and broad company objectives. Integrate and develop processes that meet business needs across the organization, be involved in long-term planning, manage complex issues within functional area of expertise, and contribute to the overall business strategy.

Developing specialized knowledge of latest commercial developments in own area and communication skills to influence others. Contributes towards strategy and policy development and ensure delivery within area of responsibility. Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.

Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems within projects, product lines, markets, sales processes, campaigns or customers. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.

Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.

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. Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas. Owns the release and sprint backlogs 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. Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer and stakeholder problems and needs.

Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity. Engages frequently 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.

Required Qualifications :

This role requires significant experience in digital transformation projects within energy industries such as Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, or Power Generation. Candidates should have prior relevant experience. The knowledge level should be comparable to a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) from an accredited university or college, with a total of 10 years of experience. Alternatively, a high school diploma with substantial relevant experience will be considered.

This role also requires at least 5 years of direct experience working with an owner-operator as a Reliability Practitioner.

This role also requires at least 3 years of experience in implementing or rolling out reliability programs at an enterprise level.

Desired Characteristics :

Technical Expertise :

Experience working in an Agile environment. Agile SM / PM or similar certification is a plus. Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles. Rolling out a digital transformation project at an enterprise level. Awareness of industry best practices like Asset Management, RCM / FMEA, Asset Strategy Optimization.

Product management experience, tools and processes :

Customer support (Salesforce). Requirements management (Aha, ADO). Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills. Knowledge of Asset Performance Management (APM) is a plus : Understanding of foundational or platform features and their usage across APM applications.

Hands-on experience with GE Vernova APM solutions or similar APM platforms, with expertise in :

Root Cause Analysis. Reliability analytics. Product Loss Accounting. Asset Health Monitoring. Process Historians. Work History. Asset Strategy Management.

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.

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. 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 others 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 Vernova. 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 :

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal 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.