Senior Product Manager - Synthetic Data

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Product Manager for Synthetic Data to define and execute the strategy and roadmap for trust in synthetic data used in GM’s autonomy training workflow. You will lead cross-functional efforts across Simulation, ML infrastructure and autonomy development to scale synthetic data production and insights.

You’ll navigate ambiguity, make principled tradeoffs, and influence engineers, product, and operations teams through clear narrative and data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• 5+ years product management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related fields.
• Solid understanding of Simulation platforms, ML orchestration infrastructure and validation workflows.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive projects forward.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership.
• Proven ability to balance tradeoffs between user needs, technical constraints and business objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to write and narrate complex technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term product vision and strategic direction for Synthetic Data within GM’s training workflow.
• Communicate technically complex information clearly to stakeholders across GM.
• Drive a data-driven culture with KPIs and metrics to measure impact.
• Establish quality frameworks and “is this good enough?” criteria.
• Define and track KPIs showing synthetic data impact on model performance and program outcomes.

Skills

Product management experience

Ambiguity navigation

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related fields

MBA or master's degree (technical/engineering)

Job description

The Role

At General Motors, we empower Product Managers to solve challenging customer and business problems. We seek passionate and innovative team members who can collaborate effectively within product management, program management, design, and engineering teams to discover and deliver impactful solutions. We hold our teams accountable for results and seek leaders who can influence teammates, stakeholders, and executives using data and logic.

Job Description

The Role

At General Motors, we empower Product Managers to solve challenging customer and business problems. We seek passionate and innovative team members who can collaborate effectively within product management, program management, design, and engineering teams to discover and deliver impactful solutions. We hold our teams accountable for results and seek leaders who can influence teammates, stakeholders, and executives using data and logic.

As a Staff Product Manager for Synthetic Data, you will define and execute the strategy and roadmap for enhancing the trust in Synthetic data used to create GM’s next generation autonomy. This role will drive innovation in how we utilize and scale Synthetic Data to provide training data and insights faster to the autonomy development and validation teams. You’ll lead cross-functional efforts to drive alignment and roadmap across Simulation, ML infrastructure and Autonomy development.

Success requires strong technical judgment, principled decision-making, and the ability to build alignment across engineering, product, infrastructure, and operations teams. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, making tough tradeoffs, and thinking both from first principles and at fleet-wide scale.

What You’ll Do

• Own the long-term product vision, setting strategic direction for increasing the trust in Synthetic Data across GM, including scale synthetic data production (quality and volume) to define it as a first-class data source in the training workflow.
• Communicate very technically complex information in an easy-to-understand narrative to stakeholders across GM.
• Help drive a data-driven culture and establish and monitor key metrics to measure the effectiveness of Synthetic Data, including:
• Establishing quality frameworks and "is this good enough?" criteria.
• Define and track KPIs that show the impact of synthetic data on model performance and program outcomes

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 5+ years product management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related fields
• Solid understanding of the latest Simulation platforms, ML orchestration infrastructure and validation workflows.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive projects forward, even without a clear path.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership
• Proven ability to balance tradeoffs between user needs and expectations, technical requirements and constraints and business objectives.
• Demonstrated expertise in writing, with the ability to effectively balance and integrate vision, strategy, and technical details in a cohesive narrative.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• An MBA or a master's Degree in a technical or engineering discipline
• Experience working on Autonomous Vehicles, ML infrastructure, or large-scale simulation/testing.
• Exposure to synthetic data generation, simulation, or domain adaptation for perception or behavior models.
• Track record building trust with staff/principal engineers through transparent roadmaps and honest communication.

Hybrid:

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Warren, MI or Sunnyvale, CA office three times per week, at minimum.

Compensation:

The compensation information is a good faith estimate only.