- Location
- Salzbergen, Germany
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Description Summary
Job Description
The Wind DT Logistics Staff Technical Product Manager (m/f/d) is responsible for operating in lockstep with Wind Logistics Leadership and the Wind DT EHS & Projects Leader to establish a clear strategic direction for product build needs across the team’s portfolio. This role works closely with cross-functional teams to define and deliver a clear, descriptive set of requirements that enables the successful delivery of product features and functionality.
A key priority of the role is to ensure seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders, including Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners, and Developers. The Staff Technical Product Manager translates strategic priorities into actionable product requirements, supports effective decision-making, and helps ensure that digital technology solutions advance Wind Logistics objectives while delivering measurable value to the business.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Demonstrates excellent business acumen, understands the latest industry trends, and is recognized as an internal expert on the product and the associated competitive landscape.
- Interacts with customers and stakeholders through Voice of Customer requirements gathering, fine tuning, and product feedback sessions.
- Works with cross-functional teams to deliver product features and significant product outcomes.
- Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.
- Routinely collaborates with UX on design decisions; conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
- Demonstrates superior persuasion and influencing skills to ensure alignment between customers, Product Managers, and engineering teams.
- Owns release planning and sprint backlogs, including the short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
- Owns and manages the product backlog, continuously ordering and prioritizing work to ensure that one to two sprints or iterations of backlog are always ready.
- Continuously prioritizes work based on validated understanding of customer problems and needs.
- Demonstrates strategic-level skills in problem decomposition and the ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Engages frequently with the development team, approximately 50% of the time, to facilitate discussions, provide clarification, support story acceptance and refinement, conduct testing and validation, and contribute to design activities and decisions.
- Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
- Partners with Development Leadership and Service Owners to ensure a healthy development process.
- Mentors junior team members.
- Serves as an expert in Agile methodology.
Desired Characteristics:
Business Acumen
- Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technologies and approaches to solving problems.
- Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements, and estimating effort.
- Analyzes the impact of technology choices on product outcomes and business value.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment.
Leadership
- Pre-emptively identifies downstream consequences and tailors influencing strategies to support positive outcomes.
- Clearly verbalizes the rationale behind decisions and their downstream implications.
- Continuously reflects on successes and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
- Understands when change is needed and participates in technical strategy planning.
Technical Expertise
- Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Familiarity with versatile implementation options.
Personal Attributes
- Effectively directs and mentors’ others in critical thinking skills.
- Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking, analysis skills, and best practices.
- Identifies important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
- Influences and energizes others toward a common vision and goal.
- Maintains excitement for the process and drives new directions for meeting goals, even when setbacks make one path impassable.
- Innovates and integrates new processes and technologies to significantly add value to GE Vernova.
- Assesses how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly.
- Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address complex or seemingly unanswerable problems.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No