Staff Technical Program Manager, AI
General Motors
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sunnyvale • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $134,700 - $245,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Drive the end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution of a large cross-functional program, aligning all the different stakeholders that participate in the life cycle of model training.
- Collaborate with engineering, validation, and product teams to help in defining requirements, prioritize features, and deliver solutions supporting AI development cycle performance.
- Translate complex technical requirements into clear, actionable program plans with measurable outcomes and timelines across multiple teams.
- Identify technical and program risks early, lead mitigation strategies, and ensure smooth change management processes.
- Ensure processes and pipelines are designed for long-term scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for training efficiency, model quality, and delivery velocity; provide regular updates to senior leadership.
Requirements
- 15+ years of technical program management experience.
- 5+ years working on data, AI/ML, robotics and/or autonomous systems are preferred.
- BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Hardware and SW backgrounds both in program manager and engineering.
- Proven track record of managing large complex cross-functional programs involving hardware, embedded software, and data pipelines with ambiguous goals.
- Strong systems thinking with ability to connect high-level architecture plans to detailed execution tasks.
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Deep familiarity with Agile program delivery, tasks management tools (e.g. JIRA), reporting tools, and technical development tools.
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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical program managementdataAImachine learningroboticsautonomous systemshardwareembedded softwaredata pipelinesAgile
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationstakeholder managementsystems thinkingrisk managementchange managementplanningexecutiondefining requirementsprioritization
Certifications
BS in EngineeringMS in Computer Science