Product Operations Lead for AV Simulation & Data

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 163,000; Full time

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Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Technical Product Operations Manager to own data products supporting simulation and test issue management, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and alignment with protocol execution. The role partners with simulation teams to maintain high-quality data taxonomy and analytics, driving scalable processes across SEO’s portfolio.

You will influence cross-functional teams, define metrics, and help evolve workflows for AV software testing while mentoring peers and shaping the

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in consulting, finance, business operations, tech startups, or similarly analytical environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience contributing to strategies and solutions within a complex, rapidly evolving domain, ideally involving data products, operational workflows, or AV-related systems.
• Strong communications skills, including the ability to craft clear summaries, present insights, and communicate recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated analytical rigor, with experience posing data-driven questions, conducting insightful analysis, and developing or improving metrics and KPIs.
• Experience collaborating across teams with differing priorities, helping drive clarity, shared understanding, and forward progress.
• Comfort switching between strategic thinking and hands-on execution, adapting to evolving needs with sound judgment and EQ.
• Willingness to ask hard questions, challenge assumptions, and surface inconsistencies to improve data quality and operational clarity.
• Familiarity with SQL.

Responsibilities

• Own the data product that supports simulation and test issue management, ensuring it remains accurate, scalable, and aligned to protocol execution needs.
• Maintain, and evolve issue categories to ensure consistent interpretation and high-quality protocol data through close collaboration with simulation partners.
• Identify gaps, refine issue definitions, and ensure consistent application of taxonomy items across teams and workflows.
• Support the creation of metrics, dashboards, and analyses that surface trends and inform prioritization and decision-making.
• Contribute to adjacent data products and pilot initiatives, flexing across SEO’s portfolio to enhance operational excellence and data reliability.
• Identify and drive opportunities for process improvements that make simulation/test issue workflows more scalable, efficient, and resilient as the AV software stack evolves.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

EQ

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Technical Product Operations Manager to own data products supporting simulation and test issue management, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and alignment with protocol execution. The role partners with simulation teams to maintain high-quality data taxonomy and analytics, driving scalable processes across SEO’s portfolio.

You will influence cross-functional teams, define metrics, and help evolve workflows for AV software testing while mentoring peers and shaping the