Principal, Strategic Partnerships, M&A, IT

General Motors

Principal, Strategic Partnerships M&A IT leading technology diligence, transaction execution, and partnership design at GM. Assessing technology risks and leading collaboration strategies across various teams.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeWarren • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the IT workstream across diligence, Day 1, integration, stabilization, separation, carve-outs, and wind-down planning, ensuring risks, dependencies, and decisions are clearly managed.
Assess target and partner environments across applications, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, end-user computing, identity, collaboration platforms, and vendors to inform risk, cost, timing, and prioritization.
Build repeatable frameworks, playbooks, templates, governance models, and reporting for transaction execution and partner operations.
Lead secure external collaboration and data-sharing approaches, including partner connectivity, access controls, records and lifecycle management, security exceptions, and separation-related cleanup.
Support joint ventures, alliances, and strategic partnerships through operating model decisions, controlled data exchange, transition planning, and wind-down or decommission coordination where needed.
Act as the trusted advisor to GM leaders and external executives on transaction and partner technology matters, translating technical issues into business risk, cost, and execution choices.
Lead through influence across Security, Infrastructure, End User, Applications, Data, HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, and business teams to drive timely decisions and outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant M&A experience with direct responsibility for IT workstreams across diligence, Day 1, integration, separation, or carve-outs.
Experience supporting joint ventures, strategic partnerships, divestitures, or other external business arrangements is strongly preferred.
8+ years of progressive IT experience across multiple domains, including infrastructure, applications, security, end-user computing, data, identity, and collaboration technologies.
Demonstrated ability to assess technology risk, estimate remediation effort, and present pragmatic options to executive stakeholders.
Proven success operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments and creating structure where processes, ownership, or information may be incomplete.
Strong program and portfolio management skills, with the ability to lead through influence across matrixed teams without relying on formal reporting relationships.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred but not required based on experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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Hard Skills & Tools

M&A experienceIT workstreamsinfrastructureapplicationssecurityend-user computingdataidentitycollaboration technologiesprogram and portfolio management

Soft Skills

leadershipinfluencerisk assessmentdecision makingcommunicationadaptabilityproblem solvingstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingcollaboration

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information TechnologyBachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s degree in BusinessAdvanced degree (preferred)