Data & AI Governance Portfolio Lead – Enablement & Literacy

General Motors Corporation; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle program

Health & wellbeing benefits

Retirement savings plan

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors Company is seeking a strategic Portfolio Manager to lead governance across Data & AI initiatives, privacy engineering, enablement, and data literacy. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, metrics-driven oversight, and scalable governance as a product-like service.

You will drive roadmaps, align investments with enterprise priorities, and report on outcomes to executives while enabling broad adoption and self-service across enterprise data and AI programs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in portfolio management, program management, product management, or technology strategy.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional technology or governance initiatives.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Experience developing metrics, dashboards, business cases, and executive-level reporting.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Strategy & Planning: Manage the portfolio roadmap across Data Governance, AI Governance, Privacy Engineering, Enablement, and Literacy initiatives.
• Lead annual planning, investment prioritization, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on business cases, provide funding recommendations, and strategic investment proposals.
• Identify dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments across the portfolio.
• Product & Program Governance: Partner with engineering managers and stakeholders to manage governance capabilities as enterprise products and services.
• Drive roadmap alignment across Data & AI Readiness Engineering, Privacy by Design Engineering, and Enablement & Literacy teams.
• Drive strategic portfolios to successful execution.
• Performance & Adoption Management: Define and maintain executive dashboards, scorecards, and metrics.
• Track portfolio outcomes including data readiness, AI readiness, onboarding efficiency, control automation, and governance adoption.
• Highlight opportunities to improve scalability, reduce friction, and increase self-service.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with Data & AI Platform teams, Domain Engineering teams, Privacy, Legal, Cybersecurity, AI Governance, Enterprise Architecture, and business stakeholders.
• Communicate portfolio status, priorities, risks, investment needs, and business value to leadership.
• Drive alignment across multiple organizations and facilitate resolution of competing priorities.
• Portfolio Operations: Manage prioritization, resource planning, and dependency management.
• Maintain portfolio-level risk, issue, and decision tracking.
• Ensure governance capabilities are delivered as repeatable, measurable enterprise services.

Skills

Portfolio management

Program management

Product management

Technology strategy

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Metrics & dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Information Systems / Cybersecurity

Tools

Databricks

Atlan

Immuta

Anomalo

Job description

General Motors Company is seeking a strategic Portfolio Manager to lead governance across Data & AI initiatives, privacy engineering, enablement, and data literacy. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, metrics-driven oversight, and scalable governance as a product-like service.

You will drive roadmaps, align investments with enterprise priorities, and report on outcomes to executives while enabling broad adoption and self-service across enterprise data and AI programs.