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Staff Product Owner

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GE Vernova

17d ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Senior Level
  • Software Engineering
    Product
  • Hyderabad, +1

AI generated summary

  • You must have strong business acumen, Agile expertise, technical knowledge, mentoring skills, and the ability to prioritize and translate customer needs into actionable user stories.
  • You will gather customer feedback, manage backlogs, prioritize tasks, collaborate with teams, mentor juniors, and ensure alignment between stakeholders and development for successful product delivery.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
  • Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.
  • Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
  • Routinely collaborates with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
  • Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
  • Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short-term 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Bachelor's Degree in with advanced experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree in with minimum years of experience6years.
  • Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment.
  • Familiarity with versatile implementation options.
  • 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.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
  • Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.
  • Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
  • Routinely collaborates with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
  • Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
  • Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short-term 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

FAQs

What are the primary responsibilities of the Staff Product Owner?

The primary responsibilities include collaborating with product management, gathering requirements, managing the backlog, prioritizing features, engaging with the development team, and mentoring junior team members.

What qualifications are required for this role?

A Bachelor's Degree is required for the role, with a minimum of six years of experience for roles based in the USA. For positions outside the USA, advanced experience is sought.

Is experience in Agile methodology necessary?

Yes, expertise in Agile Methodology is essential for this position.

What technical skills are expected from a candidate?

Candidates should have strong knowledge of software design and coding principles, as well as experience working in an Agile environment.

How important is customer interaction for this role?

Customer interaction is crucial, as the Staff Product Owner engages with customers and stakeholders to gather feedback and fine-tune requirements.

What role does the Staff Product Owner play in the development process?

The Staff Product Owner facilitates discussions, provides clarifications, contributes to design activities, and ensures alignments between customer needs, product management, and engineering teams.

Are mentoring and leadership qualities necessary for this position?

Yes, the role involves mentoring junior team members and demonstrating leadership skills to influence outcomes and guide teams effectively.

Will relocation assistance be provided for this job?

Yes, relocation assistance is provided for this position.

Is familiarity with the competitive environment important for this role?

Yes, candidates should have knowledge of the competitive landscape and be proactive in exploring alternative technologies and solutions.

How often will the Staff Product Owner engage with the development team?

The Staff Product Owner is expected to engage frequently, approximately 50% of their time, with the development team.

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Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.