Velotic™ is a leading independent industrial software company providing data‑driven solutions that improve manufacturing efficiency, productivity, and operational insight. Serving customers across manufacturing, oil \& gas, utilities, and infrastructure, the company generates more than $300 million in revenue. Velotic’s portfolio, anchored by Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx, supports the growing data and performance requirements of industrial operators globally, with an emphasis on AI‑enabled manufacturing and industrial software.
*Job Description** **Job Profile Summary**
Responsible for operating in lock\-step with product management to create a clear strategic direction for build needs for a products in your teams portfolio. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of a products features and functionality. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners and Developers.
*Roles and Responsibilities**
In this role, you will
Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements\-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
Works with cross\-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.
Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
Routinely collaborates with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short\-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1\-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
*Qualifications** **Education Qualification**
Bachelor's Degree in with advanced experience.
*Desired Characteristics / Technical Expertise:**
Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
Experience working in an Agile environment
Familiarity with versatile implementation options
*Business Acumen:**
Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
*Leadership:**
Pre\-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision\-making.
Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
*Personal Attributes:**
Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross\-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE.
Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.