Portfolio Manager, Data & AI Governance, 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

Portfolio Manager, Data & AI Governance, Enablement & Literacy### Portfolio Manager, Data & AI Governance, Enablement & LiteracyApply: Remote/Hybrid: Warren, Michigan, United States of America: Full time: Posted Today: JR-202622915**Job Description****This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Austin, Detroit, Milford or Mountain View], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.** **The Role** We are seeking a strategic and highly organized Portfolio Manager to lead prioritization, execution oversight, and performance management across the Enterprise Data & AI Governance, Privacy Engineering, Enablement, and Literacy portfolio. This role serves as an operational leader for a broad portfolio spanning Data & AI Readiness Engineering, Privacy by Design, AI Governance Engineering, Data Help, Data Literacy, Governance Platforms, and Enterprise Enablement. The Portfolio Manager ensures investments, roadmaps, resources, and outcomes remain aligned to enterprise priorities while accelerating the adoption of trusted, governed, and AI-ready data at scale. This role is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of enterprise Data, AI, and Privacy Governance. You will work across strategy, engineering, product management, and organizational transformation to ensure governance becomes an accelerator for innovation, trusted data use, and responsible AI adoption. **What You’ll Do**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 Managemen**t*** 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. What Success Looks Like* Governance capabilities are managed as products rather than standalone projects.* Portfolio investments align to enterprise priorities and measurable business outcomes.* Stakeholders have clear visibility into roadmap progress, value delivery, and risks.* Adoption, automation, and self-service continue to increase across the enterprise.* Data, AI, and Privacy Governance capabilities scale through reusable patterns, engineering solutions, and targeted enablement. **Your Skills & Abilities (Required 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. **What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)*** Experience in Data Governance, AI Governance, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, or Enterprise Data Management.* Familiarity with modern data and AI platforms such as Databricks, Atlan, Immuta, Anomalo, or similar technologies.* Experience supporting enterprise transformation, platform adoption, or cloud modernization initiatives.* MBA or advanced degree preferred.This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.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. **Compensation:*** The expected base compensation for this role is: $160,200 - $203,250. Actual base compensation within the identified 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. 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., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)