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Job Description
The Role
At General Motors, we empower Product Managers to solve challenging customer and business problems. We seek passionate and innovative team members who can collaborate effectively within product management, program management, design, and engineering teams to discover and deliver impactful solutions. We hold our teams accountable for results and seek leaders who can influence teammates, stakeholders, and executives using data and logic.
As a Group Product Manager for the AV Capability team you are an expert Product Leader responsible for shaping and executing the strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for the portfolio of autonomy capabilities that will be deployed in GM's next generation AV products. This role leads a team of AV Capability Product Managers and works closely with Embodied AI, Systems Engineering, Consumer and platform partners to translate GM's product strategy into high-impact capability outcomes, ensuring delivery at scale, quality, and pace need to meet the product milestones. Success requires strong technical judgment, principled decision-making, and the ability to build alignment across engineering, infrastructure, and other cross functional teams. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, making tough tradeoffs, and translating business needs into engineering priorities.
What You'll Do

• Own the product vision and roadmap for AV Capabilities for GM's next generation autonomy products, balancing engineering constraints, business needs, and internal platform dependencies.

• Communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions clearly across a wide spectrum of audiences from internal customers to executives.

• Synthesize technical and analytical insights into PRDs and requirements that provide engineers and partners with a clear understanding of what to do and why.

• Lead executives and key partners through sophisticated decisions to drive progress toward our strategic goals.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Program management, Data Science, Commercial operations, Systems Engineering and Consumer Product to define goals and the roadmap needed to reach them.

• Identify and lead improvements to the team's innovation and approach enabling us to scale our team and impact.

• Exemplify outstanding product development and management practices in everything you touch.

• Define, track, and analyze key product metrics and performance data to measure success and identify improvement areas.

• Mentor and develop other product managers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

• Stay updated on new technology and competitive products to drive continuous improvement, anticipate threats, and identify risks

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 8+ years of product management or related industry experience.

• 2+ years of managing teams

• Proven experience with technical product management and leading the entire product lifecycle from concept to introduction.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive actionable insights from complex data.

• Excellent presentation abilities to drive a concrete vision and rally the team.

• Technical proficiency in problem-solving with complex software solutions

• Experience defining vision and strategy for software products

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive stakeholder buy-in.

• Proven oral and written communication skills; ability to become fluent in technical concepts and explain to non-technical partners

• Comfortable with complex and ambiguous problems and situations, and adept at identifying a project's risks

• Enthusiastic and resilient in a constantly evolving environment where creative solutions are the norm.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Masters or Doctorate degree in related field

• Experience working with data scientists and AI/ML teams on software development tools, pipelines, and release

• Experience fostering innovation and driving change in complex organizations

• Experience shipping hardware or AI driven consumer products

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Warren, MI or Mountain View, CA office three times per week, at minimum.
Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.
The salary range for this role is $134,700 to $245,00. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
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