Staff Product Manager, Experience Prototyping

Job Description

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.

At General Motors our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen but to be felt. Were turning todays impossible into tomorrows standard from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design intelligent software and next-generation safety and entertainment features.

Every day our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer smarter and more connected shaping the future of transportation on a global scale.

The Role

The Staff Product Manager Experience Prototyping is a senior individual contributor responsible for early-stage high-impact customer experiences across web mobile and in-vehicle touchpoints. This role is accountable for shaping vision strategy and execution for prototype-based experiments that de-risk big bets prove out new capabilities and inform the future roadmap for core product teams.

You will be part of a group of product managers and work closely with design engineering data legal/privacy core product managers and vehicle program teams to turn ambiguous opportunities into validated prototypes learnings and clear recommendations for scale.

What Youll Do

• Lead from start to finish as the single-point product manager driving dynamic prototype experience projects
• Partner with key stakeholders - engineering design operations marketing product business and external partners to align on strategy priorities and success metrics.
• Drive the creation of artifacts to use as alignment tools
• Prioritize tasks managing tradeoffs to focus work on the most important items
• Establish success metrics and measurements used to determine project success
• Determine key deliverables and timelines reporting out on any risks and project status
• Own team meetings cadence and attendees
• Use data telemetry customer feedback and market insights to drive informed product decisions and continuous improvements.
• Champion user-centered design practices including defining user personas scenarios and success metrics and supporting user research activities.
• Facilitate working sessions and reviews using written artifacts as the primary mechanism forclarity accountability and execution.
• Be hands on offering a helping hand to engineering and design as needed lead product demos in various functions

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in Business Engineering Computer Science Human-Machine Interaction or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of product management experience
• Demonstrated experience shipping or prototyping digital experiences across mobile web and/or in-vehicle or embedded systems.
• Proven track record turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear strategies roadmaps and execution plans.
• Strong ability to collaborate with engineering design and cross functional peers to define scope tradeoffs and technical approaches.
• Demonstrated excellence inwritten product communication including product vision documents product strategy narratives PRDs and executive-level briefs.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data and metrics to guide prioritization and measure success.
• Experienced in conducting customer interviews research clinics and other means of gathering customer insights to make product decisions.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• 10 years of experience inautomotive embedded systems or 0 1 product launches.
• Experience in Prototyping Proof of concepts or Research & Development
• Experience managing multiple products in the early stages of product development including managing customer-facing trade-offs and transition planning.
• Familiarity with in-vehicle software ecosystems infotainment systems or connected vehicle platforms including hardware architecture.
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree.

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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position as well as geography of the selected candidate. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.

The salary range for this role is 159400 and 245700. 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:

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 though 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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About GM

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