General Motors
Staff Product Manager, Data Platform
General Motors, Mountain View, California, us, 94039
Job Description
The Role:
The newly created Product Management team at General Motors is adding a Data Platform Product Manager within its commercial software team. The data platform will manage a streaming data pipeline and associated data stores that is responsible for supplying telematics and other data to commercial software products and services. The Data Platform PM will be responsible for understanding data requirements from dependent teams, working with engineering to build robust and secure data infrastructure and communicating data quality metrics. We are looking for individuals with high attention to detail that can manage a disparate set of mostly internal customers that are building products for GM’s external fleet customers. Given the importance of data to the success of the commercial software team and the technical nature of the product area, the ideal candidate has product management experience with data products or infrastructure and is familiar with common data processing and analytics technologies. A bias for action and a self-starter mindset is important in GM commercial software’s agile environment.
Product Management is responsible for developing, managing, and driving product initiatives across the organization. Key tasks include executing the product vision, roadmap, and requirements. This also includes working with cross-functional teams, conducting market research, and collaborating with other teams to ensure the successful launch of new products. The role requires strong analytical skills, communication ability, and a passion for delivering exceptional products that meet customer needs.
What You’ll Do:
Define data products and delivery mechanisms
Gather data needs and requirements from product and engineering teams
Define and own the product roadmap for robust data infrastructure for ingesting, processing and storing telematics data
Create and manage data platform usage dashboards to enable data-driven roadmap development
Provide data transparency:
Document data definitions for use by other teams and enable them to self-serve data as much as possible
Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to establish and monitor key data observability/quality metrics (e.g., completeness, accuracy, latency)
Create transparent data quality dashboards and reporting tools to ensure clear communication with stakeholders
Collaborate with stakeholders:
Lead cross-functional communication to notify and align teams on data platform changes and issues along with their impact on downstream applications and services
Answer telematics data related questions
Be a point of contact for upstream teams
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree
7+ years of product management experience or relevant experience
Experience working with data products or data infrastructure (streaming or analytics), preferably with knowledge of tools like Kafka, Azure Event Hubs and Databricks
Familiarity with SQL or similar query languages, and willingness to learn others
Strong collaboration as well as written, verbal and visual communication skills as many teams will be dependent on the data platform and you will be a primary resource for data-related questions
Analytical mindset with a passion for data and its role in driving business value
Appreciation for the importance of and challenges with data quality; the curiosity to interrogate data, propose and answer data questions and get to the bottom of results that don’t make sense
Experience working in an agile development environment with a bias for action, even in an ambiguous environment
Can-do attitude to ensure we find a way to move forward despite challenges
Preferred Skills:
Experience working with data governance frameworks
Experience with IoT/telematics data or the automotive industry
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Mountain View, CA or Warren, MI three times per week, at minimum.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
The annual salary range for this role is $127,900 - $200,100. 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.
About GM:
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us:
We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture.
Diversity Information:
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
GM is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.
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The Role:
The newly created Product Management team at General Motors is adding a Data Platform Product Manager within its commercial software team. The data platform will manage a streaming data pipeline and associated data stores that is responsible for supplying telematics and other data to commercial software products and services. The Data Platform PM will be responsible for understanding data requirements from dependent teams, working with engineering to build robust and secure data infrastructure and communicating data quality metrics. We are looking for individuals with high attention to detail that can manage a disparate set of mostly internal customers that are building products for GM’s external fleet customers. Given the importance of data to the success of the commercial software team and the technical nature of the product area, the ideal candidate has product management experience with data products or infrastructure and is familiar with common data processing and analytics technologies. A bias for action and a self-starter mindset is important in GM commercial software’s agile environment.
Product Management is responsible for developing, managing, and driving product initiatives across the organization. Key tasks include executing the product vision, roadmap, and requirements. This also includes working with cross-functional teams, conducting market research, and collaborating with other teams to ensure the successful launch of new products. The role requires strong analytical skills, communication ability, and a passion for delivering exceptional products that meet customer needs.
What You’ll Do:
Define data products and delivery mechanisms
Gather data needs and requirements from product and engineering teams
Define and own the product roadmap for robust data infrastructure for ingesting, processing and storing telematics data
Create and manage data platform usage dashboards to enable data-driven roadmap development
Provide data transparency:
Document data definitions for use by other teams and enable them to self-serve data as much as possible
Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to establish and monitor key data observability/quality metrics (e.g., completeness, accuracy, latency)
Create transparent data quality dashboards and reporting tools to ensure clear communication with stakeholders
Collaborate with stakeholders:
Lead cross-functional communication to notify and align teams on data platform changes and issues along with their impact on downstream applications and services
Answer telematics data related questions
Be a point of contact for upstream teams
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree
7+ years of product management experience or relevant experience
Experience working with data products or data infrastructure (streaming or analytics), preferably with knowledge of tools like Kafka, Azure Event Hubs and Databricks
Familiarity with SQL or similar query languages, and willingness to learn others
Strong collaboration as well as written, verbal and visual communication skills as many teams will be dependent on the data platform and you will be a primary resource for data-related questions
Analytical mindset with a passion for data and its role in driving business value
Appreciation for the importance of and challenges with data quality; the curiosity to interrogate data, propose and answer data questions and get to the bottom of results that don’t make sense
Experience working in an agile development environment with a bias for action, even in an ambiguous environment
Can-do attitude to ensure we find a way to move forward despite challenges
Preferred Skills:
Experience working with data governance frameworks
Experience with IoT/telematics data or the automotive industry
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Mountain View, CA or Warren, MI three times per week, at minimum.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
The annual salary range for this role is $127,900 - $200,100. 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.
About GM:
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us:
We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture.
Diversity Information:
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
GM is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.
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