Sr Staff Technical Product Manager- D&S Avionics Grand Rapids

Job Description Summary

The Sr Staff Technical Product Manager bridges manufacturing business needs, a third-party MES implementation partner, and operational support for existing applications to deliver high-quality, reliable manufacturing systems. In this role you will set clear strategic direction, own the product vision and roadmap, and translate stakeholders voice into actionable backlogs and releases. You will focus on leading MES/product initiatives, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring delivery and quality, and maintaining tight alignment with manufacturing operations to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain a multi-quarter roadmap aligned with manufacturing strategy and plant workflows.
• Translate VOC and operational priorities into MVPs and phased releases.
• Manage and continuously prioritize the backlog; ensure 1-2 sprints of "ready" work.
• Set acceptance criteria, sprint goals, and quarterly release plans balancing features, defects, and technical debt.
• Coordinate Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners, Developers, UX, Architecture, QA/QMS, and IT.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, demos, and UAT; engage frequently with development teams for clarification and story acceptance.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, synthesize personas/use cases, and align on requirements.
• Manage third-party MES partners to scope, SLAs, timelines, and quality standards.
• Ensure solutions fit plant standard work; plan training, communications, cutover, and hypercare to minimize production disruption.
• Partner with support teams to triage, prioritize, and resolve operational issues.
• Embed SQDC outcomes in design and delivery; drive prevention and root-cause actions.
• Ensure cybersecurity, audit readiness, and regulatory adherence across releases.
• Maintain understanding of the technology stack, integrations, data flows, and non-functional needs (scalability, security, performance).
• Collaborate with Architecture and UX on design decisions and implementation trade-offs.
• Define and track KPIs (delivery predictability, defect escape, availability, adoption, backlog health).
• Lead retrospectives and improvement initiatives based on insights and operational feedback.
• Run governance cadence (steering, working sessions, UAT cycles, change board) with clear entry/exit criteria.
• Provide transparent status, risk/issue tracking, and decision logs to stakeholders and leadership.
• Coach teams on Agile/product best practices; mentor junior TPMs.
• Model structured problem decomposition, critical thinking, and effective influence.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR associate's degree with minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 10 years of professional experience
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field.
• 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.

Desired Characteristics:

• 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.
• Demonstrates 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. 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 seemingly unanswerable problems.

Additional Information

Compensation Grade

SPB3

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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

Relocation Assistance Provided: No