General Motors

Assistant Strategic Communications Program Manager

General Motors

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Mountain View • California • Missouri • United States

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About the role

  • Drive plant-level readiness and adoption efforts for manufacturing communications initiatives, including WorkJam, by aligning people, process, and technology
  • Lead readiness planning across sites, maintaining launch health indicators (e.g., red/yellow/green status), tracking dependencies, and proactively identifying risks
  • Translate program strategy into actionable change management and adoption plans that resonate with frontline employees, plant leadership, and functional partners
  • Partner closely with HR and IT to support workforce alignment, onboarding readiness, training coordination, and sustained adoption through communication and reinforcement
  • Establish and maintain feedback loops to surface plant-level insights, identify issues, and inform continuous improvement
  • Develop and maintain scalable toolkits, templates, and communication frameworks to enable consistent rollout and execution across locations
  • Manage program operations, including meeting cadence, agendas, documentation, decision logs, reporting, and stakeholder alignment
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and vendors to ensure timely delivery of launch materials and program milestones
  • Serve as a resource to colleagues by sharing best practices, templates, and guidance across manufacturing communications initiatives
  • Contribute to additional strategic communications programs and workstreams as priorities evolve

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required; in Communications, Journalism, Business, Marketing, Project Management, or a related field preferred
  • 5+ years of progressive experience in internal communications, program management, change management, or a related discipline
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-function initiatives from planning through execution, with multiple stakeholders and interdependencies
  • Proven ability to drive program readiness, adoption, and execution across multiple sites or business units
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable plans for diverse audiences
  • Experience working effectively in a matrixed organization, partnering across functions such as Communications, HR, IT, Legal and Labor
  • High level of organizational discipline, including the ability to manage timelines, status reporting, and competing priorities
  • Ability to work independently with minimal direction, exercise sound judgement, and proactively identify and resolve issues
  • Comfort operating in fast-paced, evolving environments where priorities may shift and ambiguity exists
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
program managementchange managementinternal communicationsproject managementstakeholder alignmentrisk identificationfeedback loopscommunication frameworkstemplate developmentlaunch readiness
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationorganizational disciplineindependent workjudgmentproblem-solvingcross-functional collaborationadaptabilitystrategic thinkingteam coordination