Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Motors is an automotive company committed to advancing safer, more equitable mobility. General Motors is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead developer experience programs that improve how software is built, secured, and shipped, while coordinating cross-functional teams, vendors, tool evaluations, and developer adoption.
Responsibilities
- Turn priorities into plans and execution. Take and run initiatives that improve GM developers’ lives. The work a DevEx TPM varies, but examples of recent work include developer enablement for new /critical tools, managing platform migrations + helping address platform issues, and improving developer environments/workstations
- Run the delivery cadence. Track work against targets, surface blockers early, and drive the decisions needed to keep momentum
- Manage complexity across teams. Coordinate multi-team initiatives so they land with minimal disruption to developers
- Drive alignment on shared problems. Bring IT, Engineering, Cyber Security, and Legal together to resolve program-level questions like access models for external collaborators, using data and clear options to reach agreement without direct authority
- Shift governance left. Help replace manual gatekeeping with automated governance that keep developers safe without slowing them down
- Support vendor relationships. Coordinate work with key tool vendors and help ensure GM gets real value from what it spends
- Run tool evaluations. Structure pilots to produce clear data on productivity and security impact, and help turn that data into a recommendation
- Drive adoption, not just rollout. Support the change management that makes new tools and practices stick. Help design engagement models like InnerSource and communities of practice that get teams to adopt shared standards
- Make the right way the easy way. Help keep developer documentation and paved-road templates current so the recommended way to build software at GM is also the easiest
Skills
- Program leadership: 7+ years leading technical programs in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering
- Education: BS or MS in an engineering-related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Independent execution: Proven ability to own complex, multi-team programs end to end with minimal guidance, handling operational friction and cross-team coordination so engineering leaders can stay focused on architecture and code
- Change and adoption: Experience driving technical and cultural change in complex, regulated enterprise environments and getting real teams to adopt new tools and practices
- Vendor and tool acumen: Experience coordinating enterprise software vendor relationships and the practical aspects of tool integration such as licensing, identity, and support
- Data-driven communication: Ability to turn metrics into clear, honest narratives for engineering and leadership audiences, without dressing up activity as impact
- Engineering enablement: A real focus on making developers more productive. You understand how engineers work day to day, where they hit friction, and how to remove it so teams can do their best work with less overhead
- Influence without authority: Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to build trust with engineering and IT leaders, bridge gaps between teams, and drive agreement on hard decisions
- AI-native practice: You use AI tools in your own daily work and can speak from real experience about where they help and where they do not
- 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. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc)
- This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}
- This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate
Benefits
- An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 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
- 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.
- This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week (or other frequency dictated by your manager).
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