GE Vernova
Staff Product Owner
GE Vernova, Bothell, WA
Job Description Summary
Responsible for operating in lock-step with product management to create a clear strategic direction Grid Energy Markets. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of a products features and functionality. This role uses domain and business process expertise to elaborate and convey detailed product requirements in the form of epics and user stories, together with supporting artifacts (such as business process maps and use cases) to the software development teams.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Collaborates with Product Managers to form a deep understanding of the product vision and strategy. Effectively communicates this vision and strategy to the development teams through development of effective user stories
• Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Own the short-term product roadmap (releases and sprint backlogs) and its integration into a larger application or strategic roadmap.
• Ensures that the technical roadmap and strategy are represented in the product roadmap (both short and long-term).
• Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases and represents the team in quarterly planning sessions
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
• 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 unit.
• Partners with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Expert in Agile Methodology.
Education Qualification
Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise:
• Transmission Power System, or relevant electrical utility industry knowledge or expertise
• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
• Experience working in an Agile environment
Business Acumen:
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
Leadership:
• Experience in fostering team adoption of new ways of working.
• 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 GEV. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
The compensation range for this position is 119,600.00 - 149,500.00. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for sales incentive compensation. Available benefits include permissive time off, healthcare coverage options, and matching 401K plan
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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.
GE 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: Yes
Responsible for operating in lock-step with product management to create a clear strategic direction Grid Energy Markets. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of a products features and functionality. This role uses domain and business process expertise to elaborate and convey detailed product requirements in the form of epics and user stories, together with supporting artifacts (such as business process maps and use cases) to the software development teams.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Collaborates with Product Managers to form a deep understanding of the product vision and strategy. Effectively communicates this vision and strategy to the development teams through development of effective user stories
• Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Own the short-term product roadmap (releases and sprint backlogs) and its integration into a larger application or strategic roadmap.
• Ensures that the technical roadmap and strategy are represented in the product roadmap (both short and long-term).
• Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases and represents the team in quarterly planning sessions
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
• 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 unit.
• Partners with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Expert in Agile Methodology.
Education Qualification
- Bachelor's Degree in with minimum 6 years of experience
Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise:
• Transmission Power System, or relevant electrical utility industry knowledge or expertise
• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
• Experience working in an Agile environment
Business Acumen:
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
Leadership:
• Experience in fostering team adoption of new ways of working.
• 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 GEV. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
The compensation range for this position is 119,600.00 - 149,500.00. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for sales incentive compensation. Available benefits include permissive time off, healthcare coverage options, and matching 401K plan
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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.
GE 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: Yes