Job Description

The Wind DT Logistics Staff Technical Product Manager (m/f/d) is responsible for operating in lockstep with Wind Logistics Leadership and the Wind DT EHS & Projects Leader to establish a clear strategic direction for product build needs across the team’s portfolio. This role works closely with cross-functional teams to define and deliver a clear, descriptive set of requirements that enables the successful delivery of product features and functionality.

A key priority of the role is to ensure seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders, including Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners, and Developers. The Staff Technical Product Manager translates strategic priorities into actionable product requirements, supports effective decision-making, and helps ensure that digital technology solutions advance Wind Logistics objectives while delivering measurable value to the business.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Demonstrates excellent business acumen, understands the latest industry trends, and is recognized as an internal expert on the product and the associated competitive landscape.
• Interacts with customers and stakeholders through Voice of Customer requirements gathering, fine tuning, and product feedback sessions.
• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver product features and significant product outcomes.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.
• Routinely collaborates with UX on design decisions; conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Demonstrates superior persuasion and influencing skills to ensure alignment between customers, Product Managers, and engineering teams.
• Owns release planning and sprint backlogs, including the short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Owns and manages the product backlog, continuously ordering and prioritizing work to ensure that one to two sprints or iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Continuously prioritizes work based on validated understanding of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic-level skills in problem decomposition and the ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Engages frequently with the development team, approximately 50% of the time, to facilitate discussions, provide clarification, support story acceptance and refinement, conduct testing and validation, and contribute to design activities and decisions.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partners with Development Leadership and Service Owners to ensure a healthy development process.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Serves as an expert in Agile methodology.

Desired Characteristics:

Business Acumen

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technologies and approaches to solving problems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements, and estimating effort.
• Analyzes the impact of technology choices on product outcomes and business value.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment.

Leadership

• Pre-emptively identifies downstream consequences and tailors influencing strategies to support positive outcomes.
• Clearly verbalizes the rationale behind decisions and their downstream implications.
• Continuously reflects on successes and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
• Understands when change is needed and participates in technical strategy planning.

Technical Expertise

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with versatile implementation options.

Personal Attributes

• Effectively directs and mentors’ others in critical thinking skills.
• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking, analysis skills, and best practices.
• Identifies important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes others toward a common vision and goal.
• Maintains excitement for the process and drives new directions for meeting goals, even when setbacks make one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and technologies to significantly add value to GE Vernova.
• Assesses how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly.
• Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address complex or seemingly unanswerable problems.

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