This role is built for a leader who can influence without authority, run a disciplined program/project cadence, and deliver measurable outcomes. You will modernize and digitize legal processes, enable AI and automation, and strengthen the company’s risk and control posture while improving user experience and operational efficiency.
Secondary scope includes enabling the strategy for ITC (export/trade compliance enablement) and Intellectual Property Management (innovation-to-patent lifecycle management, Freedom to Practice, and patent analytics).Job Description
Key responsibilities
- Own product strategy and the Legal Technology roadmap: Define the multi-quarter strategy and translate it into a sequenced roadmap (epics, milestones, releases) aligned to business priorities, compliance needs, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead cross-functional execution (strategy-to-delivery): Drive delivery across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, legal ops, analytics, and vendors—ensuring on-time, high-quality outcomes with clear scope, dependencies, and release readiness.
- Run structured discovery and VOC: Establish a repeatable cadence (interviews, workflow observation, data analysis) to identify customer problems, validate needs, and convert insights into outcomes, requirements, and success metrics.
- Program/project leadership and operating rhythm: Build and run the delivery operating system—roadmap reviews, backlog health, sprint/release readiness, RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), decision logs, and stakeholder communications.
- Prioritization and trade-off facilitation: Lead prioritization across intake, enhancements, incidents, remediation, and strategic work; make trade-offs explicit and drive alignment on scope, sequencing, and capacity.
- Technical product ownership with depth: Define product and platform requirements (integrations, data, access controls, auditability, non-functional requirements including availability, performance, and security) and influence solution design.
- Influence architecture and security-by-design outcomes: Partner with architects and security/privacy leaders to ensure solutions meet security, privacy, regulatory, and audit requirements with strong traceability and minimal friction to users.
- Stakeholder leadership without authority: Align Legal leadership and technology stakeholders through crisp narratives, executive-ready updates, and clear recommendations; manage conflict productively and drive decisions.
- Measurement and value realization: Define KPIs and dashboards that show adoption, cycle time reduction, control readiness, and risk reduction; use insights to continuously improve delivery and product outcomes.
- Vendor/SaaS strategy and delivery oversight: Evaluate tools, lead implementation planning, manage vendor performance, and ensure value realization across adoption, utilization, cost, and risk.
- Secondary ownership (ITC & IP enablement): Partner with ITC and IP stakeholders to set the strategy opportunities, prioritize a scalable backlog, and deliver incremental improvements that compound over time.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) with minimum 6 years of professional experience OR Associate's Degree with minimum of 9 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 11 years of professional experience
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Technical Product Management
- Significant experience in technical product management for enterprise platforms, workflow tools, or regulated domains
- Demonstrated ability to build and execute roadmaps, manage backlogs, and lead cross-functional delivery
- Strong requirements writing skills; comfortable partnering with engineers/architects on solution design
- Experience operating in environments with security, privacy, regulatory, and audit requirements
- Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
- Eligibility Requirement: Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in Legal Technology supporting Legal Operations (e.g., matter management, legal intake, knowledge management, NDA, eDiscovery)
- Familiarity with trade compliance / ITC workflows, controls, or reporting
- Knowledge of intellectual property management processes and patent analytics
- Experience with workflow/automation platforms and integrations (APIs, identity/access, data governance)
- Strong analytics orientation (product KPIs, value measurement, adoption tracking)
- Experience managing vendors and SaaS implementations
Desired characteristics
- Executive Presence: Can credibly lead with clarity, stay grounded under pressure, and build trust with executives
- Strategic operator: Can set direction, translate strategy into executable plans, and deliver through others
- Influence leader: Builds alignment and drives decisions without formal authority
- Disciplined program execution: Strong planning with daily visual management coupled with proactive escalation and change leadership
- Customer-driven and data-informed: Listens deeply, reframes ambiguity into priorities, and measures outcomes
- Bias for action with unyielding integrity and continuous improvement mindset
Key skills
- Product strategy and roadmap ownership
- Stakeholder management and executive communication
- Influencing and alignment leadership
- Technical fluency (APIs, integrations, security-by-design)
- Agile delivery, dependency management, change management
- Customer discovery, VOC, and continuous improvement
Success measures (examples)
- Roadmap predictability (on-time milestone completion; reduced delivery variance)
- Adoption and satisfaction within Legal teams
- Cycle time reduction for targeted Legal/ITC workflows and reduced man
- curity/privacy/legal obligations
- Operational efficiency gains (automation rate, throughput, incident/rework reduction)
- ual effort
- Audit/control readiness improvements and measurable risk reduction aligned to se
NOTES:
The base pay range for this position is $131,000 - $180,000 annually. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on May 31, 2026.
Benefit Insert
GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
GE Aerospace Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Office
2401 Whitehall Park Dr, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28273
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