Senior Product Manager (vPAC)

GE Vernova

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Product Manager – vPAC to join our Grid Automation & Software team. This role will shape the future of grid automation, defining how protection, automation, and control evolve from dedicated hardware into software-defined infrastructure for the world’s electricity networks. The preferred location is Stafford, United Kingdom, with flexibility for other approved GE Vernova locations. GE Vernova is a leader in electrifying and decarbonizing the world, with a focus on accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. Our Electrification solutions modernize grids, enable renewable integration, and strengthen energy systems, creating smarter, more resilient energy networks.

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.
The ability to work across technical and commercial teams, balancing customer needs, engineering feasibility, business priorities, and long-term product strategy.
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.
The confidence to operate in ambiguous, evolving, and disruptive product environments where market expectations, technology, and business models are still developing.
Professional fluency in spoken and written English.

Nice To Haves

Experience with software licensing, subscription-based business models, SaaS or platform-based products, IEC 61850, IEC 62443, cybersecurity frameworks, utilities, EPCs, OEMs, or digital substation modernisation programmes.
A degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

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.