Senior Product Manager (vPAC) in Stafford

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

GE Vernova is looking for a Senior Product Manager – v PAC 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.

Overview

The Senior Product Manager – v PAC 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long‑term vision, strategy, roadmap, and commercial direction for the v PAC 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 v PAC 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.
• Travel

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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Understanding of software‑defined systems, virtualization, containerised 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 to explain complex technical concepts clearly to customers, senior leaders, commercial teams, and technical stakeholders.
• 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.
• Experience with software licensing, subscription‑based business models, Saa S or platform‑based products, IEC 61850, IEC 62443, cybersecurity frameworks, utilities, EPCs, OEMs, or digital substation modernisation programmes would be advantageous.
• A degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Work Arrangement

This is a permanent position.

Stafford, United Kingdom is the preferred location.

Candidates based within commuting distance of our Stafford site or open to regular connection with the site are welcome.

Candidates in other approved GE Vernova locations within the European Union or the United States may also be considered, subject to business needs, local employment requirements, and the ability to support the role effectively from the proposed location.

The role is ideally suited to a hybrid working arrangement with regular engagement at a GE Vernova site where possible.

Full‑remote working may be considered for an exceptional candidate with the right experience and capabilities, subject to business requirements, role needs, location feasibility, and local employment arrangements.

EEO Statement

GE Vernova is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to considering all applicants fairly and providing equal opportunities for both GE Vernova associates and external applicants.

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