Senior Product Manager, Vehicle Telematics Data

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Technical/Innovation Center in Warren (MI), Mountain View (CA), or Austin (TX), three times per week, at minimum. This position can be located at any of these locations but if located outside of Michigan, there will be an expectation of 25% travel to Michigan.

The Role

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. We're turning today's impossible into tomorrow's 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.

This position will be the primary product manager for the vehicle software quality product. They will work closely with the data engineering team, as well as numerous upstream GM teams, including VDF, T360, and Vehicle Engineering. This PM will consider other product development teams within Vehicle Telemetry Data and Engineering as its customers.

The Vehicle Telematics Data Product Management team at General Motors is adding a Vehicle Quality Data Product Manager within its team. The data platform will manage a streaming data pipeline and associated data stores that is responsible for supplying telematics and other data to vehicle and quality Engineering teams within GM. The Vehicle Quality Data PM will be responsible for understanding data requirements from dependent teams, working with engineering to build robust and secure data assets, and communicating data quality metrics. We are looking for individuals with high attention to detail who can manage a disparate set of mostly internal customers that are building products for GM. Given the importance of data to the success of the software team and the technical nature of the product area, the ideal candidate has product management experience with data products and is familiar with common data processing and analytics technologies. A bias for action and a self-starter mindset are important in GM's Product Management environment.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

• Define data products and delivery mechanisms
• Gather data needs and requirements from product and engineering teams

• Define and own the product roadmap for robust data quality assessment,
• processing and storing telematics data
• Create and manage data platform usage dashboards to enable data-driven
• roadmap development
• Provide data transparency
• Document data definitions for use by other teams and enable them to self-serve
• data as much as possible
• Collaborate with data engineers and vehicle and quality engineers to establish
• and monitor key data observability/quality metrics (e.g., completeness, accuracy,
• latency)
• Create transparent data quality dashboards and reporting tools to ensure clear
• communication with stakeholders
• Collaborate with stakeholders
• Lead cross-functional communication to notify and align teams on data platform
• changes and issues along with their impact on downstream applications and
• services
• Answer telematics data related questions
• Be a point of contact for upstream teams

Yours Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of product management experience or relevant experience
• Experience working with data products or data infrastructure (streaming or analytics), preferably with knowledge of tools like Kafka, Azure Event Hubs and Databricks
• Familiarity with SQL or similar query languages, and willingness to learn others

• Strong collaboration as well as written, verbal and visual communication skills as many teams will be dependent on the data platform and you will be a primary resource for data-related questions
• Analytical mindset with a passion for data and its role in driving business value
• Appreciation for the importance of and challenges with data quality; the curiosity to interrogate data, propose and answer data questions and get to the bottom of results that don't make sense
• Experience working in an agile development environment with a bias for action, even in an ambiguous environment
• Can-do attitude to ensure we find a way to move forward despite challenges

What Can Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience working with data governance frameworks
• Experience with IoT/telematics data or the automotive industry.

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 $131,000 to $202,000. 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.

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GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. The selected candidate will be required to travel on a regular basis (25-50%) for this role. This job may be eligible for relocation benefits. The position is subject to export control restrictions and requires the successful candidate to be either a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee) or a non-U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required export control authorization.
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