The Product Owner leads the GridBeats™ APS, managing stakeholder communications, product vision, roadmap, backlog refinement, and release planning, while ensuring team alignment and product improvement.
Job Description SummaryThe Product Owner for GridBeats™ APS acts as the strategic leader for the product, responsible for maximizing value delivery to customers and the business. They serve as the primary liaison between stakeholders and the development team, driving the product vision, roadmap, and continuous improvement.Job Description#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
Essential Responsibilities
- Define and communicate a clear product vision aligned with GridBeats™ APS Product Manager and leadership.
- Develop and maintain a strategic roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on customer value and organizational goals.
- Own and refine the product backlog, ensuring items are clearly articulated, prioritized, and actionable.
- Balance technical debt, feature development, and innovation.
- Actively engage with internal and external stakeholders to gather feedback, understand needs, and manage expectations.
- Facilitate regular stakeholder review sessions for alignment and transparency.
- Work closely with development, UX/UI, QA, and business teams to ensure seamless delivery.
- Support Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives).
- Empowered to make decisions on product scope, priorities, and release schedules within agreed business parameters.
- Integrate user feedback and market research into product planning.
- Monitor product performance using defined KPIs and adapt roadmap accordingly.
- Oversee release planning and manage go-to-market activities in collaboration with marketing and sales teams.
- Champion a culture of iterative improvement, leveraging analytics and feedback to enhance product offerings.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering/Science
- Experience with P&C and digital substation products
Desired Characteristics
- Able to share ideas and work well in a team environment, proactive approach to tasks displaying initiative
- Flexible and adaptable; open to change and modification of tasks, working in multitasking environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to encourage innovation, risk taking and creative thinking in others through performance coaching/mentoring/recognition.
- Superior verbal, written and interpersonal skills including the ability to build solid relationships conduct negotiations and make presentations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to for quarterly travel (internationally) is required to visit remote teams and maintain team coherence.
- Strong communication skills and a proactive and open approach to conflict resolution
- Strong organizational skills, self-motivated, and self-directed
- Detailed knowledge of either GE Grid Automation P&C products or equivalent competition P&C products
- Demonstrated record in understanding or developing applications for the P&C market
- Familiarity with industry standards and documentation procedures of electrical utilities
- Proven record of writing and presenting papers at industry conferences/journals
- Experience with Agile Methodologies
- Experience with protection and control and substations automation products.
- Strong knowledge of IEC 61850, IEC 61508, DNP, Modbus, IEC 104 and Cyber security standards and functionalities.
- Experience with mathematical modelling software is a very strong asset and is preferred.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Top Skills
Agile Methodologies
Cyber Security Standards
Dnp
Iec 104
Iec 61508
Iec 61850
Mathematical Modelling Software
Modbus
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