Sr Staff Technical Product Manager

This role does not have direct GE Vernova software engineering reports, but is fully accountable for engineering execution, product quality, delivery performance, and continuous improvement across contractor-led engineering teams. The leader will work closely on a daily basis with the contractor Engineering Manager(s) supporting eTerra Platform product suite to ensure execution aligns with product, quality, architecture, and business objectives.

This position requires a strong engineering leader who combines Agile delivery expertise, operational rigor, technical judgment, and quality discipline.

A key aspect of this role is modernizing software delivery practices, including the responsible use of AI-enabled development capabilities across the software development lifecycle. The leader will help ensure contractor teams adopt effective engineering practices, automation, and AI-assisted delivery approaches to improve quality, increase productivity, and accelerate customer value delivery. This role is essential to achieving our Zero-D quality goals, meeting customer commitments, and enabling expansion into new Grid Software markets.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day engineering outcomes for the eTerra Platform products, including delivery execution, product quality, technical coordination, and release readiness.
• Lead through contractor engineering teams and vendor engineering management, ensuring accountability for commitments, engineering standards, and business results without direct line management authority.
• Partner daily with the contractor Engineering Manager(s) to drive execution, remove blockers, manage priorities, and ensure alignment to roadmap, architecture, and customer delivery commitments.
• Establish, govern, and continuously improve engineering operating mechanisms for quarterly planning, sprint execution, capacity planning, dependency management, risk tracking, and reporting, with a strong focus on OTD performance.
• Serve as the engineering leader responsible for delivery transparency, execution predictability, and operational rigor across both products.
• Champion Agile software development practices, ensuring teams apply effective planning, backlog refinement, estimation, prioritization, demos, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Drive adoption of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, quality gates, secure development, observability, and DevOps discipline across contractor teams.
• Lead the use of AI-assisted software development practices across the engineering lifecycle—including requirements support, code generation assistance, test creation, defect analysis, documentation, and developer productivity workflows—while ensuring appropriate governance, quality, and security.
• Set expectations and inspect results for measurable year-over-year productivity improvements, including a target of 30% or greater improvement through process discipline, automation, AI enablement, and waste reduction.
• Partner with Product Management, Program Management, Architecture, Quality, and Services teams to ensure engineering execution supports strategic business priorities and customer commitments.
• Ensure Platform evolve effectively as part of GE Vernova’s hybrid Grid Software strategy, supporting integration with GridOS capabilities where appropriate.
• Improve software quality and customer outcomes by driving root cause analysis, defect prevention, test effectiveness, release quality, and closed-loop learning across teams.
• Lead engineering readiness for customer deliverables, ensuring appropriate planning, resourcing, technical execution, issue resolution, and escalation management.
• Contribute to engineering strategy, delivery governance, and organizational standards for outsourced and hybrid development models.
• Act as a strong cross-functional leader who influences across internal teams and external partners to deliver results in a complex product environment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field from an accredited university or college.
• Significant experience in software engineering, software delivery, or engineering management in a commercial or industrial software environment.
• Experience leading software delivery through external partners, contractors, or outsourced development teams, with demonstrated accountability for outcomes.
• Strong experience in Agile software development methodologies, including planning, execution management, backlog governance, and continuous improvement.
• Experience managing software delivery across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, release, and sustaining engineering.
• Demonstrated experience driving engineering execution for complex software products with customer-facing delivery commitments.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across organizational and company boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to improve engineering predictability, delivery performance, and quality outcomes.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience in enterprise software, grid software, energy software, industrial software, or other mission-critical product environments.
• Understanding of hybrid software modernization strategies, including integration of legacy or heritage platforms with cloud-native or next-generation product platforms.
• Experience implementing modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated regression testing, release automation, DevOps, and software quality metrics.
• Experience applying AI-enabled development tools and practices across the software development lifecycle, with an understanding of governance, security, and quality considerations.
• Demonstrated success improving productivity, engineering efficiency, and product quality across distributed or partner-led teams.
• Strong knowledge of software quality management, defect prevention, root cause analysis, and customer-focused release readiness.
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment with moderate autonomy and high accountability.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including executive-level status reporting and operational reviews.
• Proven ability to identify risks early, drive resolution, and build alignment across product, engineering, and services stakeholders.
• Experience with quarterly planning frameworks, operational metrics, and OTD-focused execution management.