Sr. Manager Software Engineering Experience Prototyping

Job Description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. The successful candidate is expected to report to the GM Global Technical Center in Warren MI or Mountain View CA three times per week at minimum.

Why join us
General Motors pioneers the innovations that move and connect people to what matters. We see a world with zero crashes zero emissions and zero congestion. As we move toward this vision software plays an integral role as it becomes more prominent in our vehicles.

Our ambition in Software & Services Product Management is to build a world-class software development culture that is part of the companys shared vision. We are creating an elite portfolio of software-defined vehicles by tightly integrating software hardware and services to create complete and compelling vehicle experiences for our customers.

The Role

As Senior Manager Software Engineering Experience Prototyping Vehicle Product Management you will lead the Experience Prototyping engineering team responsible for defining and delivering nextgeneration software experiences across web mobile and embedded platformsboth in and outside the vehicle. This role reports to the Director Experience Prototyping Vehicle Product Management with a dottedline relationship to the mainline Software Engineering organization.

You will be responsible for multiple leaders and their engineering teams who rapidly build functional prototypes and technical experiments that inform product roadmaps requirements and platform investments. Our team collaborates across product management hardware engineering prototyping and design to ensure that the experiences we prototype are aligned with user needs technical realities and GMs strategic goals.

While your primary focus is on strategy people leadership and outcomes you are expected to be a hands-on leader with deep software engineering and architecture skills. This role requires a strong technical foundation across front and back-end technologies cloud-based services AI/ML the ability to navigate ambiguity and a passion for disciplined innovation at scale

What Youll Do

• Lead the Experience Prototyping engineering team to deliver highimpact prototypes and experiments and provide direct leadership to 4 engineering leads and their respective teams.

• Own Experience Prototypings relationship with mainline software engineering to ensure team compliance and utilization of GMs software engineering standards and best practices while ensuring the teams autonomy and creativity related to experience and prototype development.

• Partner with Experience Prototyping Product Design and Hardware Engineering leaders in support and optimization of a framework that translates ambiguous concepts into clear hypotheses experiments and prototype work.

• Ensure prototypes are sound with clear paths for handoff to product and delivery teams as appropriate.

• Lead develop and retain a highperforming inclusive engineering team

• Represent Experience Prototyping engineering in senior crossfunctional forums using evidence from experiments to influence product platform and investment decisions.

• Be responsible for software engineering costs and reporting for the Experience Prototyping team

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 12 years of professional software engineering experience across web mobile and/or embedded platforms.

• 5 years of experience as a people leader including leading multiple teams and/or engineering managers in complex matrixed environments.

• Demonstrated experience leading innovation prototyping or earlystage product discovery efforts not only production delivery.

• Strong technical foundation in modern fullstack development with the ability to evaluate architecture design and code across front end back end and mobile.

• Experience decomposing broad concepts into clear work items and experiments that engineering teams can execute rapidly.

• Exceptional strategic thinking and the ability to connect customer needs technical possibilities and business outcomes.

• Understanding of usercentered design principles and experience collaborating closely with UX/UI/ID teams.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels including senior leadership.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Deep understanding of automotive software and hardware architecture including invehicle systems connectivity and embedded platforms.

• Prior experience working with or within General Motors (GM) or strong familiarity with GMs technology stack development cycles and product ecosystem.

• Demonstrated ability to bridge technical and business domains in fastpaced prototyping or advanced engineering environments.

• Experience collaborating with crossfunctional teams in large enterprise or automotive settings.

• Experience with rapid prototyping and lean product development frameworks (e.g. design sprints Lean hypothesisdriven development).

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 $238700 - $365700. 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.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATEDSPONSORSHIPFOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILLNEED GM IMMIGRATIONSPONSORSHIP(e.g. H-1B TN STEM OPT etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

This job is not eligible forrelocationbenefits. Anyrelocationcosts would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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