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The Role:
The Group Program Manager, Hardware Design Program Management in the Program Management Office (PMO) is a manager responsible for overseeing the Technical Program Management (TPM) team responsible for in-house designed components. This role involves close collaboration with the electrical Hardware Engineering team and other cross-functional teams. As a Group Program Manager, you will be pivotal guiding/mentoring the TPMs, creating and enhancing program management processes and ensuring consistency across the team.

What You'll Do:

• Lead a team of technical program managers to support in-house hardware designs. Ensure the team is adequately resourced to support current and future workloads as the in-house engineering team grows.

• Hire new TPMs as necessary to support in-house hardware design team growth and ensure that the overall skill level of the team is enhanced.

• Lead the TPM team in the coordination of hardware design, development and validation efforts for complex, fast-evolving hardware systems and components designed in-house by hardware engineering.

• Provide appropriate guidance and mentorship to the team members based on their experience and skill levels.

• Guide team to proactively resolve issues and drive course corrections as needed - be directly involved in helping teams foresee and overcome barriers or blockers.

• Ensure that the team is capturing and tracking inter-team dependencies and handoffs, plus capturing, monitoring and help resolving risks and issues.

• Ensuring that all business deliverables are identified and accounted for in the project plan with responsibility and due dates

• Define program deliverables, metrics and KPIs, set up mechanisms to track/report.

• Ensure consistent and effective communication of status/progress across program teams.

• Conduct periodic retrospectives; continuously assess and improve processes and tools.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Minimum of 2 years managing technical program management teams (TPM) plus at least 10 years of program management experience in hardware engineering.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing contract manufacturers in the development of new hardware products, including responsibilities such as PCBA design release, BOM management, SMT processes, and manufacturing test implementation.

• Ability to understand complex hardware/software systems and familiarity with hardware design and development processes including board-level design, mechanical engineering, and hardware validation.

• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills.

• Be detail oriented and able to confidently bring order and organization to any team.

• Ability to handle ambiguities and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• This position requires the ability to legally operate a motor vehicle on a regular basis.

What Can Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills)

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience in automotive industry.

• PCBA hardware design and Design for Manufacturing.

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Project.

Hybrid:This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week, at minimum. This position will be located in Sunnyvale, CA or Warren, MI.

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 $245,000. 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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