Senior Product Manager; vPAC

Senior Product Manager – vPAC | Grid Automation & Software | Stafford, UK

GE Vernova is looking for a Senior Product Manager – vPAC to join our Grid Automation & Software team. Stafford, United Kingdom is the preferred location, with flexibility to consider candidates in other approved GE Vernova locations where local employment arrangements can be supported.

The Senior Product Manager – vPAC will own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and commercial direction for GE Vernova’s Virtualized Protection, Automation and Control portfolio. This strategic product leadership role within the Transmission Protection, Automation and Control product line involves translating market opportunities and customer needs into a clear product strategy, prioritized roadmap, value propositions, and commercially successful product outcomes.

• Define and own the long‑term vision, strategy, roadmap, and commercial direction for the vPAC portfolio, ensuring alignment with the wider Grid Automation & Software and Transmission PAC strategy.
• Identify market opportunities, customer needs, technology trends, competitive dynamics, and disruptive business models that will shape the future of software‑defined protection, automation and control.
• Translate customer insight and market intelligence into clear value propositions, product outcomes, release priorities, and high‑level requirements that support customer value and profitable business growth.
• Lead Voice of Customer activities, working closely with utilities, regional teams, partners, and industry stakeholders to validate market opportunities, understand operational challenges, and identify unmet customer needs.
• Develop and maintain robust product roadmaps and business cases, using input from customers, regions, market analysis, engineering teams, and commercial stakeholders to support investment and prioritisation decisions.
• Guide and coordinate Product Owners responsible for detailed requirements, technical specifications, user stories, and product documentation, ensuring their work remains aligned to the overall product strategy and roadmap.
• Partner closely with R&D, Engineering, Technology, and Programme Management to ensure product priorities are understood, delivered effectively, and connected to clear business and customer outcomes.
• Own product lifecycle decisions from ideation through launch, growth, sustainment, and end‑of‑life, including recommendations on investment, acceleration, repositioning, or retirement.
• Drive commercial performance across the portfolio, including revenue growth, profitability, pricing strategy, packaging, business model development, market adoption, and return on investment.
• Define and monitor product KPIs, including customer adoption, financial performance, competitive positioning, customer satisfaction, and effectiveness of R&D investment.
• Lead go‑to‑market planning by defining product positioning, segmentation, messaging, launch priorities, and sales enablement needs in partnership with Marketing, Sales, and regional commercial teams.
• Support strategic customer engagements, executive presentations, conferences, and product discussions, acting as a credible product leader for both internal and external audiences.
• Build relationships with technology partners, virtualization platform providers, system integrators, standards bodies, and other ecosystem stakeholders that can strengthen the long‑term competitiveness of the vPAC portfolio.
• Represent GE Vernova in relevant industry forums and standards discussions, including areas such as IEC, IEEE, IEC 61850, IEC 62443, digital substations, cybersecurity, and software‑defined grid automation.
• Influence global stakeholders across Product Management, R&D, Engineering, Sales, Services, Supply Chain, Marketing, and regional teams without direct authority, creating alignment around priorities, trade‑offs, and product direction.

This role involves regular international travel to support customer engagements, regional collaboration, industry forums, conferences, and key internal product discussions. Travel requirements may vary but are estimated at around 30% of the role.