Sr Technical Product Manager- D&S Avionics Grand Rapids

Job Description Summary

As the Sr Staff Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for operating in lockstep with product management teams to create a clear strategic direction for development needs and convey 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.

• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and help the organization 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 its impact on the 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 backlog 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 a healthy development process.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across the organization. Expert in Agile Methodology: coach others.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR associate's degree with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR a high school diploma with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field.
• Note:
  
  Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

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

• 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 the 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.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment.
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy‑vs‑build recommendations, scope MVPs, and drive market timing decisions.

• 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 reflects on success and failures to…