Senior Technical Product Specialist

Baker Hughes; Ball Ground (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Job summary

Baker Hughes is seeking a Product Specialist to drive digital product initiatives within cross-functional teams. You will own the short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases, translate customer needs into actionable user stories, and collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX designers, and developers.

This role emphasizes agile practices, backlog management, and mentoring junior teammates while shaping product decisions and validating solutions with stakeholders to deliver customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required and 6+ years of professional experience.
• Proven ability to translate customer problems into actionable user stories.
• Experience mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Own the short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Prioritize backlog to keep 1–2 sprints ready.
• Collaborate with UX and Dev teams on design decisions.
• Translate ambiguous work into actionable stories and plans.
• Lead stakeholder interviews to refine personas.
• Mentor junior team members.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile methodology

Stakeholder interviews

Backlog management

Mentoring

Product ownership

Problem decomposition

Persuasion

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Are you a Product Specialist looking for a new opportunity?

Do you enjoy working with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative digital products and drive customer value?

Join our successful team!

Baker Hughes is the leading energy technology company, delivering across the energy value chain through our market-leading business segments. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries. Our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward, making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Partner with the best

Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders, including Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners, and Developers.

Responsibilities

• Working with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.
• Owning the short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Prioritizing continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrating expert-level skill in problem decomposition and the ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engaging frequently with the development team; facilitating discussions, providing clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributing to design activities and decisions.
• Owning and managing the backlog; continuously ordering and prioritizing to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Collaborating with UX in design decisions, demonstrating deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on the final product.
• Conducting customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborating on personas.
• Partnering with the Service Owner to ensure a healthy development process.
• Being regarded as an expert in Agile Methodology; translating unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units through problem decomposition and planning.
• Demonstrating superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager, and engineering team.
• Demonstrating excellent business acumen, knowledge of industry trends, and expertise on the product and associated competitive landscape.
• Mentoring junior team members.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's Degree.
• Have a minimum of 6 years of professional experience.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Working flexible hours, flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Digital Technology Senior Specialist - Technical Product Management

About Us:

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward - making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Join Us:

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let’s come together and take energy forward.

Baker Hughes Company 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.