Staff Product Manager Digital Controls and Settings

Job Description

The Role

As Staff Product Manager Vehicle Controls & Settings you will lead the strategy and execution for GMs unified digital control and vehicle settings experiences. This role spans the entire domain of controls (immediate actionoriented interactions) and settings (persistent personalized configuration) shaping how customers understand interact with and customize their vehicles.

You will establish the overarching product direction for the vehicle Settings experience digital and hybrid controls and the broader ecosystem of preferences and personalization. You will define systemlevel patterns that create clarity reduce complexity and ensure consistency across GMs global vehicle portfolio.

This position requires operating at both strategic and execution levels setting longterm vision guiding crossfunctional teams and ensuring bestinclass experiences.

What Youll Do

• Own the unified product vision for Vehicle Controls & Settings bringing together real-time control and customer preferences into a cohesive intuitive experience.

• Define and prioritize features that simplify interactions reduce confusion and make controls and settings discoverable and intuitive.

• Lead multidisciplinary teams across engineering UX/UI vehicle architecture human factors and validation to deliver coherent control and configuration experiences.

• Translate research safety requirements and customer insights into scalable product patterns that apply across multiple vehicle lines.

• Shape the design and evolution of the Settings application establishing clear structure consistent logic and taxonomy improvements for hundreds of preferences.

• Develop frameworks and interaction models that bring consistency to toggles modes controls and configuration across all GM vehicle programs.

• Conduct competitive analysis and identify opportunities to advance personalization configuration and interaction quality.

• Manage roadmaps and backlogs for Controls & Settings ensuring crossfunctional alignment and clarity of priorities.

• Define KPIs and success metrics that measure usability discoverability and customer satisfaction across the domain.

• Communicate strategy tradeoffs and product direction to crossfunctional partners and senior leadership.

• Lead postlaunch evaluation and continuously improve the experience through customer feedback data insights and emerging trends.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 7 years of product management experience in digital products with at least 3 years in vehicle interfaces humanmachine interaction or complex UX systems.

• Expertise in UI design patterns and human factors with a proven ability to translate research safety requirements and customer insight into product direction.

• Strong leadership experience guiding crossfunctional teams and aligning diverse stakeholders.

• Deep understanding of regulatory and automotive considerations related to digital controls and user interaction.

• Proven experience shaping strategy managing roadmaps and driving clarity in complex technical environments.

• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills capable of influencing at multiple levels of the organization.

• Datadriven decision maker able to evaluate telemetry research and customer insights to set direction.

• Demonstrated ability to create frameworks standards and patterns that scale across products or programs.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• A forwardlooking strategic mindset with the ability to anticipate customer needs and craft longterm product vision.

• Strong fluency across software hardware UX and vehicle systems enabling holistic product thinking.

• Experience leading platformlevel or frameworklevel product work that scales enterprisewide.

• Deep grounding in human factors and user research advocating for intuitive and safe interaction models.

• Proven success influencing complex matrixed organizations and driving alignment across technical and design stakeholders.

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.

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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