Staff Technical Product Manager

Job Description Summary

Staff Technical Product Manager will define the strategy and lead execution of digital solutions for the Quality organization, with a focus on scaling AI across GE Aerospace’s Quality Management System (QMS). This role will identify and deliver AI-enabled opportunities in inspection, conformity, and quality data and analytics, using a combination of technical, process, and domain expertise to drive adoption across the Integrated Quality team.

Working closely with Quality leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, this person will shape product vision, validate concepts through rapid prototyping, and partner with software teams to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions. The role requires strong technical product leadership, hands-on AI experimentation, and end-to-end business ownership across the product lifecycle, including finance, compliance, and operations.

• Own product strategy and roadmap
• Define and communicate a clear product vision aligned to business outcomes and customer needs
• Maintain, prioritize, and continuously refine the product backlog, MVPs, and quarterly release plans
• Balance new features, technical debt, and defect resolution to maximize value delivery
• Lead AI-driven rapid prototyping
• Use AI tools (for example, Claude Opus with Visual Studio Code) to quickly create and iterate on working prototypes with stakeholders
• Capture and codify lessons learned and best practices for “vibe coding” and AI-assisted prototyping, and feed them into future product iterations
• Collaborate with software engineering to harden prototypes into scalable, secure, production-ready solutions
• Engage deeply with customers and stakeholders
• Conduct VOC sessions, interviews, and persona development to validate problems and refine requirements
• Translate ambiguous or unstructured requests into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
• Use strong influencing and negotiation skills to align customers, product, UX, architecture, and engineering around a single prioritized view
• Provide technical and delivery leadership
• Partner closely with engineering, UX, and architecture for refinement, design, and validation
• Demonstrate strong understanding of technology stacks, including APIs, data transfer, caching, scalability, and security, and their impact on product decisions
• Ensure a healthy Agile delivery process; own sprint and release backlogs and support high-quality execution
• Coach and elevate the organization
• Mentor junior TPMs and team members; provide technical product leadership across the organization
• Apply and coach Agile practices; model continuous improvement and data-driven decision making
• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge to help the organization gain a competitive edge

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
• Experience applying lean/continuous improvement principles (for example, standard work, visual management, value stream thinking, problem solving) to drive measurable outcomes in manufacturing or operations
• Experience “vibe coding” with AI and integrating AI into product workflows
• Demonstrated knowledge of topics such as APIs, caching, data transfer, scalability, and security

• Skilled at breaking down complex problems, framing clear problem statements, and estimating effort
• Ability to assess tradeoffs and impact of technology choices
• Strong negotiation skills to balance and align competing stakeholder priorities

• Influences through others and builds strong cross-functional support for ideas
• Anticipates downstream implications of decisions and adjusts strategies accordingly
• Communicates the “why” behind decisions and continuously reflects to improve judgment
• Contributes to technical and product strategy planning

• Strong critical thinking; finds patterns and insights in seemingly unrelated information
• Energizes and aligns others around a common vision, persisting through obstacles and change
• Innovates and integrates new processes and technology to create significant business value
• Learns quickly and applies new tools, especially AI and…