Senior Manager, Vehicle Software Release Programs

General Motors Company; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 202,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle program

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Release Program Management to lead a high-performing team and drive faster, more predictable software releases across vehicle software. You will shape the release strategy, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure safety and quality while delivering value to customers.

You will partner with Engineering, Quality, and OTA teams to improve validation, reduce rework, and increase throughput.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading technical program managers or a program-management organization.
• 10+ years of experience managing software release, delivery, or release-engineering programs for complex embedded, platform, or comparable software.
• A track record of improving release frequency, cycle time, and delivery predictability at scale.
• Working knowledge of modern release practices, including change control, release readiness, gating, and CI/CD, with the judgment to guide strategy and trade-offs.
• Experience partnering with engineering and quality teams to improve early validation, reduce rework or respins, and increase delivery throughput.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, risk and dependency management, and written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team with 10–20 members and establish clear ownership across release programs.
• Make releases faster and more predictable by reducing bottlenecks and refining integrated plans with milestones and go/no-go criteria.
• Strengthen readiness and quality through governance, readiness reviews, and early validation.
• Align leaders and stakeholders across Development, Product, Quality Assurance, Configuration and Software Change Management, Security, and OTA delivery.

Skills

Lead PM team

Software release experience

Cross-functional leadership

Executive reporting

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Release Program Management to lead a high-performing team and drive faster, more predictable software releases across vehicle software. You will shape the release strategy, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure safety and quality while delivering value to customers.

You will partner with Engineering, Quality, and OTA teams to improve validation, reduce rework, and increase throughput.