Senior Technical Product Manager

Aerospace; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in Cheltenham is seeking a Sr Staff Technical Product Manager to drive product development and strategic direction. The successful candidate will possess strong technical knowledge and experience in Agile methodologies, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. This position emphasizes stakeholder alignment and mentoring junior team members, ensuring a clear direction for product features and improvements while managing project backlogs.

Benefits

Non-contributory Pension

Life Assurance

Group income protection

Private medical cover

Flexible holiday options

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to gather and analyze customer feedback for product improvement.
• Experience in product management with a focus on technical products.
• Expert level skills in problem decomposition and navigating ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Translate unstructured work requests into actionable user stories.
• Engage frequently with the development team for clarification and testing.

Skills

Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles

Experience working in an Agile environment

Familiarity with versatile implementation options

Knowledge of caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security

Job description

Job Description Summary

Sr Staff Technical Product Manager- D&S- Avionics & Power Next Generation MES/QMS. Responsible for operating in lock‑step with product management teams to create a clear strategic direction for development needs and conveying that vision to the build and/or operations team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners and Developers.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.
• Interact with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Work with cross‑functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
• Possess a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
• Routinely collaborate with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
• Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
• Demonstrate expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Own the release and sprint backlogs short‑term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Own and manage the backlog; continuously order and prioritize to ensure that 1–2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrate strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engage frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contribute to design activities and decisions.
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partner with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentor junior team members. Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization.
• Expert in Agile Methodology: Coach others.

Desired Characteristics Technical Expertise:

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with versatile implementation options
• Demonstrate knowledge on technical topics, such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrate 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.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the competitive environment
• Demonstrate 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 others 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.

6.9 Digital Technology & Cybersecurity requirements

6.10 All Digital Technology and Cybersecurity workers in GEAS UK Highly Regulated Businesses shall be subject to UK National Security Vetting and must hold and maintain clearance at the SC Level (or higher) prior to starting employment/assignment and for continued employment/assignment. This requirement shall apply regardless of whether: employed by; seconded, allocated or assigned to; or otherwise undertaking work in or for GEAS UK Highly Regulated Businesses; and shall apply irrespective of site/location, including those working remotely.

6.12 All workers requesting highly privileged logical and/or unescorted physical access to IT/OT Applications/Systems/Services or Infrastructure within GEAS UK Highly Regulated Environments shall be subject to UK National Security Vetting and must hold clearance at the SC Level (or higher) and shall meet applicable access eligibility and business justification requirements before such access is granted. Access shall cease when access clearance, eligibility or justification requirements cease to be met. Highly privileged logical access to IT/OT Applications/Systems/Services within GEAS UK Highly Regulated Environments shall be limited to workers who are located onshore in the UK. This requirement shall apply regardless of whether: access is by GE Aerospace workers or is by workers from another GE, GE affiliate or 3rd Party entity; and shall apply irrespective of site/location, including those working remotely.

Total Rewards

At GE Aerospace we understand the importance of Total Rewards. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible.

We are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs.

- Non‑contributory Pension

- Life Assurance

- Group income protection

- Private medical cover

- Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell

GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work‑life balance.

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security. Please see the link below for further details regarding the requirements for BPSS clearance: BPSS.

Right to Work

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post. Further, under immigration rules, sponsorship is not available for all posts. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No