Senior Product Manager (vPAC)
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About the Role
GE Vernova seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Virtualized Protection, Automation and Control (vPAC) portfolio.
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Responsibilities
- Define and own the long term vision, strategy, roadmap, and commercial direction for the vPAC portfolio.
- Identify market opportunities, customer needs, technology trends, competitive dynamics, and disruptive business models.
- Translate customer insight and market intelligence into clear value propositions, product outcomes, release priorities, and high level requirements.
- Lead Voice of Customer activities, working closely with utilities, regional teams, partners, and industry stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain robust product roadmaps and business cases.
- Guide and coordinate Product Owners responsible for detailed requirements, technical specifications, user stories, and product documentation.
- Partner closely with R&D, Engineering, Technology, and Programme Management to ensure product priorities are understood and delivered.
- Own product lifecycle decisions from ideation through launch, growth, sustainment, and end of life.
- 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.
- Support strategic customer engagements, executive presentations, conferences, and product discussions.
Requirements
- Significant experience in product management, product strategy, portfolio management, or product line leadership within B2B industrial technology, grid automation, utility software, mission critical software, or digital solutions.
- Strong product leadership capability, including experience defining product vision, strategy, roadmaps, business cases, investment priorities, release plans, and commercial product outcomes.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand market dynamics, customer value, competitive positioning, pricing, commercial models, and return on investment.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to align global, cross functional teams without direct authority.
- Credibility in power systems, transmission and distribution, protection, automation and control, grid automation, digital substations, or adjacent mission critical infrastructure environments.
- An understanding of software defined systems, virtualization, containerized applications, edge compute, cybersecurity, modern digital architectures, or industrial software platforms.
- Experience gathering customer insight, leading Voice of Customer activities, validating market opportunities, and translating customer needs into product priorities.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to customers, senior leaders, commercial teams, and technical stakeholders.
- Professional fluency in spoken and written English.
- Degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Full Job Posting
Job Description Summary
- GE Vernova is looking for a Senior Product Manager – vPAC to join our Grid Automation & Software team. Stafford, United Kingdom is the preferred location.
How You Will Make a Difference
- Define and own the long term vision, strategy, roadmap, and commercial direction for the vPAC portfolio.
- Identify market opportunities, customer needs, technology trends, competitive dynamics, and disruptive business models.
- Translate customer insight and market intelligence into clear value propositions, product outcomes, release priorities, and high level requirements.
- Lead Voice of Customer activities, working closely with utilities, regional teams, partners, and industry stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain robust product roadmaps and business cases.
- Guide and coordinate Product Owners responsible for detailed requirements, technical specifications, user stories, and product documentation.
- Partner closely with R&D, Engineering, Technology, and Programme Management to ensure product priorities are understood and delivered.
- Own product lifecycle decisions from ideation through launch, growth, sustainment, and end of life.
- 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.
- Support strategic customer engagements, executive presentations, conferences, and product discussions.
Skills for Success
- Significant experience in product management, product strategy, portfolio management, or product line leadership within B2B industrial technology, grid automation, utility software, mission critical software, or digital solutions.
- Strong product leadership capability, including experience defining product vision, strategy, roadmaps, business cases, investment priorities, release plans, and commercial product outcomes.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand market dynamics, customer value, competitive positioning, pricing, commercial models, and return on investment.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to align global, cross functional teams without direct authority.
- Credibility in power systems, transmission and distribution, protection, automation and control, grid automation, digital substations, or adjacent mission critical infrastructure environments.
- An understanding of software defined systems, virtualization, containerized applications, edge compute, cybersecurity, modern digital architectures, or industrial software platforms.
- Experience gathering customer insight, leading Voice of Customer activities, validating market opportunities, and translating customer needs into product priorities.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to customers, senior leaders, commercial teams, and technical stakeholders.
- Professional fluency in spoken and written English.
Where And How You’ll Work
- This is a permanent position.
- Stafford, United Kingdom is the preferred location.
- This role is ideally suited to a hybrid working arrangement, with regular engagement at a GE Vernova site where possible.
- We are also open to considering fully remote working for an exceptional candidate.
Our Culture
- We are committed to providing you with the tools to navigate and shape a career journey that supports both your professional growth and a healthy work life balance.
- We prioritise fair pay, performance based rewards, and wellbeing programmes for you and your family.
About GE Vernova
- GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy, electrifying the world while working to decarbonise it.
- Our technology helps generate approximately twenty five percent of the world’s electricity today.
Additional Information
- Relocation Assistance Provided: No
- This is a remote position
- Application Deadline: July 19, 2026
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