Staff Product Manager - AV Evaluation and Metrics

Staff Product Manager for AV Evaluation Metrics and Products

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. The successful candidate is expected to report to the GM Global Technical Center in Mountain View, CA or Warren, MI three times per week, at minimum.

The Role:

General Motors pioneers the innovations that move and connect people to what matters. We see a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. As we move toward this vision, software plays an integral role as it becomes more prominent in our vehicles. As a Staff Product Manager for AV Evaluation Metrics and Products, you will define and execute the strategy and roadmap for our Simulation Evaluation metrics and products, enabling high-fidelity, scalable and trustworthy testing of GMs next generation autonomy. This role will drive innovation in how we assess AV performance at scale in Simulation and Road across multiple dimensions like Safety, Comfort, Regulatory Compliance, etc and provide insights faster to the autonomy development and validation teams. You'll lead cross-functional efforts to drive alignment and roadmap across end to end model evaluation, subsystem evaluation and infrastructure to support it.

Success requires strong technical judgment, principled decision-making, and the ability to build alignment across engineering, product, infrastructure, and operations teams. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, making tough tradeoffs, and thinking both from first principles and at fleet-wide scale.

What You'll Do:

• Own the long-term product vision, setting strategic direction for simulation Evaluation infrastructure across multiple autonomy capabilities, vehicle models and simulation modalities aligning with broader company goals.
• Develop and implement strategies for systems, processes, and metrics capable of evaluating simulated driving to predict on-road performance as well as evaluate road driving.
• Lead a cross-functional team of stakeholders encompassing Safety, Engineering, Data Science, Program, and Product Managers to create evaluation products which provide high confidence, high frequency insights.
• Act as the voice of the customers from the multiple internal GM teams across development to validation, ensuring evaluation products not just meet the needs of the customers but delight them by pushing the envelope on the insights that are possible and their scale.
• Help drive a data-driven culture and establish and monitor key metrics to measure the effectiveness of the Simulation Evaluation products.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• 5+ years product management experience.
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Data Science, or related fields
• Solid understanding of the modern data and analytics technology stack, including cloud data and data infrastructure
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive projects forward, even without a clear path.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership
• Proven ability to balance tradeoffs between user needs and expectations, technical requirements and constraints and business objectives.
• Demonstrated expertise in writing, with the ability to effectively balance and integrate vision, strategy, and technical details in a cohesive narrative.

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

• An MBA or a masters Degree in a technical or engineering discipline
• Experience working on evaluation, data and metric products and pipelines.
• Experience managing products focused on ML model development and evaluation

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 $168,000 - $258,800. 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.

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.

Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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.

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