HR Technology Project Manager

General Motors; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 107,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors Company is seeking a project delivery leader to support HR technology initiatives and run a portfolio of projects and BAU work with HR, technology, product, engineering, and vendor partners. You will bring structure, momentum, and transparency to delivery.

You will guide end-to-end delivery, establish governance, lead Agile ceremonies, manage risks, and translate complex topics into executive updates, helping HR technology initiatives achieve successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Lead end-to-end delivery of HR technology projects and BAU work.
• Define objectives, scope, milestones, and success measures with stakeholders.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and maintain healthy backlogs.
• Translate complex topics into clear updates for leadership.
• Promote consistent delivery practices and customer focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of HR technology projects.
• Partner with stakeholders to define objectives and plans.
• Establish governance, reporting, and risk management processes.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies as Scrum Lead.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and vendors.
• Support change readiness and post-launch stabilization.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Agile delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Sprint planning

Risk management

Executive communication

Change readiness

Vendor coordination

Prioritization

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

About the role

The People Experience Technology team is seeking a project delivery leader to support HR technology initiatives and business-as-usual operations. This role will bring structure, momentum, and transparency to a portfolio of projects and operational work while partnering closely with HR, technology, product, engineering, and vendor stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of HR technology projects, enhancements, integrations, and process improvements from intake through implementation and transition to support.
• Partner with HR business stakeholders, product owners, technology teams, vendors, and leadership to define objectives, scope, milestones, success measures, and delivery plans.
• Establish clear governance and operating rhythms, including status reporting, planning sessions, stakeholder reviews, risk and issue management, and decision tracking.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives when serving as Scrum Lead.
• Help teams maintain healthy backlogs by clarifying priorities, documenting requirements, identifying acceptance criteria, and coordinating refinement with product owners and delivery partners.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams, systems, vendors, releases, testing, data, security, change management, and production support.
• Manage business-as-usual work, including operational intake, prioritization, incident follow-up, recurring enhancements, release coordination, and continuous improvement.
• Track delivery progress, risks, issues, decisions, actions, capacity, and vendor commitments as appropriate.
• Translate complex technical or operational topics into clear updates and recommendations for business stakeholders and leadership.
• Promote consistent delivery practices, continuous improvement, and a customer-focused approach across the HR technology portfolio.
• Support change readiness, communications, training coordination, and post-launch stabilization for impacted HR teams and employees.

What you'll bring

• Experience leading technology projects, product delivery, operational work, or Agile teams in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities across project work and BAU responsibilities.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, organization, and decision-making skills.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams that may include business partners, product managers, analysts, engineers, testers, vendors, and support teams.
• Working knowledge of project management and Agile delivery practices, including planning, estimation, backlog management, dependency tracking, risk management, and retrospectives.
• Ability to create clear project plans, status updates, RAID logs, action trackers, meeting outcomes, and executive-ready communications.
• Ability to identify ambiguity, bring structure to complex work, and move decisions forward in a collaborative manner.
• Experience supporting technology implementations, enhancements, integrations, or production operations.
• Comfort working with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of work experience supporting HR, employee experience, payroll, talent, learning, recruiting, workforce management, or other enterprise business systems.
• Experience serving as a project manager, delivery lead, or equivalent role.
• Familiarity with enterprise HR technology ecosystems, system integrations, data flows, testing, release management, and production support.
• Experience working with external vendors or managed service providers.
• Project management or Agile certification, such as PMP, CSM, PSM, SAFe, or equivalent.
• Experience with common delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms.

Success in this role

Within the first year, success will include:

• Establishing trusted partnerships with HR, technology, product, and vendor stakeholders.
• Improving visibility into project milestones, BAU priorities, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
• Helping delivery teams execute predictable, high-quality work with clear ownership and priorities.
• Supporting successful delivery of HR technology projects and enhancements from planning through stabilization.

Compensation

The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

The salary range for this role is $106,600 - $163,400. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to th