Staff Product Manager, Core Experiences - Next Gen In-Vehicle XP at General Motors in Warren, Michigan, United States of America

Job description

• 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.
• As a Staff Product Manager for GM’s next-generation in-vehicle experience (IVX), you will play a dual role:
• First, you will act as a platform product leader for core elements of the shared in-vehicle experience — helping define the product direction, requirements, and evolution of system-level UI capabilities used across vehicle programs.
• Second, you will represent the end-to-end in-vehicle experience in partnership with vehicle programs, ensuring the hardware and digital experience come together as one integrated product customers can immediately understand, trust, and value.
• The role is accountable not only for defining shared platform capabilities, but also for ensuring those capabilities come together within vehicle programs as a cohesive customer product across hardware, software, and cabin experience.
• This is not a pure portfolio strategy role, and it is not a narrow feature PM role. It is a senior individual contributor role for a product manager who can operate at the platform level while also working across real vehicle programs to ensure the full experience is coherent, intentional, and executable.
• You will report to the Director of Product Management and work closely with Design, Engineering, Program Management, and vehicle teams across GM.

Responsibilities

• Platform Product Leadership - Core System UI & Shared Experience Foundations
• Own and shape product direction for key shared elements of GM’s in-vehicle experience platform.
• Define and evolve product requirements for core system UI capabilities, interaction patterns, and cross-surface experiences that span multiple displays and input modalities.
• Partner closely with platform PM, design, and engineering counterparts to ensure shared foundations are scalable, usable, and flexible enough to support multiple vehicle programs and brand expressions.
• Help drive clarity on what should be standardized at the platform level versus where intentional variation is required by vehicle, segment, or brand.
• Contribute to the long-term experience architecture for the digital cockpit, including how information, controls, system behaviors, and customer touchpoints work together across the vehicle.
• Vehicle Program Integration - Cohesive End-to-End Experience
• Represent the in-vehicle experience in partnership with vehicle programs to ensure the hardware and digital product come together cohesively.
• Work across vehicle programs and segments to translate shared platform capabilities into complete customer experiences that feel integrated across screens, controls, cabin architecture, and key moments of use.
• Ensure product decisions account for the full customer experience, not just what appears on screen — including the relationship between display layout, physical controls, cabin context, and driver or passenger expectations.
• Partner with vehicle teams to identify where program-specific needs should inform platform evolution, and where platform consistency should be preserved.
• Connect platform strategy to a compelling vehicle experience.
• Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership
• Act as a product DRI across your scope, driving alignment and execution with Design, Engineering, Program Management, and vehicle stakeholders.
• Represent product decisions in leadership reviews, design reviews, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Work within GM’s vehicle development cadence, aligning product requirements, experience decisions, design maturity, and software milestones with program timing.
• Identify and manage risks across platform, software, hardware, and vehicle dependencies.
• Balance tradeoffs across customer value, brand expression, technical feasibility, regulatory requirements, and delivery timing.
• Customer Insight & Product Strategy
• Use customer research, market analysis, competitive benchmarking, and product intuition to shape the in-vehicle experience strategy.
• Help define what great looks like for future in-vehicle experiences across areas such as personalization, voice interaction, driver-assistance UX, system intelligence, and display experiences.
• Represent the voice of the customer in cross-functional forums while grounding decisions in real constraints and platform realities.
• When data is incomplete, define learning plans through research, experiments, and instrumentation to improve decision quality over time.

Requirements

• Core Product Management
• 7–10+ years of product management experience leading large-scale, complex software or connected products such as consumer electronics, mobile OS, smart TV, IoT, automotive HMI, or wearable platforms.
• Proven ability to own a product domain end to end, from vision and strategy through execution, launch, and iteration.
• Experience operating across the full PM stack: product vision, roadmap, requirements, prioritization, decision-making, and delivery.
• Strong judgment in balancing near-term execution with long-term platform and product strategy.
• Platform & Multi-Surface Experience
• 4–6+ years working on platform-level or multi-surface products spanning multiple displays, form factors, device types, or interaction surfaces.
• Strong understanding of how system UI frameworks, interaction models, and design systems enable consistent experiences across diverse hardware.
• Comfort with hardware-software integration tradeoffs, including display constraints, rendering performance, input modalities such as touch, voice, and physical controls, and responsive or adaptive layout challenges.
• Experience helping define system behaviors, information architecture, content hierarchy, notifications, or shared UX patterns at scale.
• End-to-End Experience Integration
• Demonstrated ability to connect platform capabilities to complete customer experiences rather than optimizing only isolated features.
• Experience working across software, hardware, design, and delivery teams to bring integrated products to market.
• Ability to evaluate product decisions in context — considering the relationship between interface behavior, physical environment, customer expectations, and business intent.
• Track record of bringing clarity to ambiguous product spaces and aligning multiple stakeholders around a cohesive direction.
• Execution & Delivery
• 5–7+ years leading cross-functional delivery across engineering, design, program management, and operations in complex environments.
• Track record shipping multi-surface or multi-product experiences from concept through launch and post-launch iteration.
• Ability to navigate cross-team dependencies and drive alignment across platform, software, and product stakeholders.
• Skilled at resolving ambiguity through structured problem framing, crisp requirements, and clear tradeoff discussions.
• Customer Focus & Communication
• 4–6+ years leveraging customer research, market analysis, and competitive intelligence to inform product strategy and prioritization.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into clear product direction and to establish measurement where it does not yet exist.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft clear, persuasive narratives for executive and cross-functional audiences.
• A hands-on, high-accountability mindset with a strong instinct to collaborate deeply and raise the bar for product quality and PM craft.
• What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
• Experience in automotive, consumer electronics, mobile OS, smart home, TV, or connected device ecosystems.
• Familiarity with Android-based system platforms such as AOSP or Android Automotive OS, or similar embedded OS environments.
• Experience with premium or design-led products where quality, craft, and brand expression matter.
• Background in driver assistance systems, autonomous driving UX, personalization, or intelligent system experiences.
• MBA or advanced technical degree such as Computer Science, Engineering, or HCI.
• Demonstrated ability to influence product practices beyond your immediate scope through mentoring, shared standards, or cross-team leadership.

Skills

Required

• Core Product Management
• Platform & Multi-Surface Experience
• End-to-End Experience Integration
• Execution & Delivery
• Customer Focus & Communication
• Hands-on, high-accountability mindset

Preferred

• MBA or advanced technical degree

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, 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.