Staff Product Manager – Google Built-In

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Company vehicle program

Job summary

General Motors is seeking an experienced Staff Product Manager for the Google Built-In product area. You will shape long-term strategy, align internal teams and Google, and drive product outcomes through data, customer insight, and clear communication.

You will lead cross-functional workstreams, define KPIs, and influence senior stakeholders to deliver high‑impact vehicle‑integrated experiences across platforms.

Qualifications

• Understanding of product discovery and delivery methodologies.
• 7+ years of cross‑functional experience on customer‑facing digital products.
• Automotive digital product or design experience.
• Experience with product launches and Go‑To‑Market strategies.
• Ability to engage with engineers, designers, and leaders constructively.
• Experience with external tech partners and managing relationships.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and cross‑functional teams through data and communication.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and align priorities across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the long‑term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for GM’s Google Built‑In product area.
• Lead cross‑functional alignment across GM and Google product, program, engineering, design, marketing, sales, quality, communications and business stakeholders to ensure goals and accountability.
• Define product objectives and KPIs using data to hold teams accountable with measurable outcomes.
• Drive a customer‑obsessed product culture by incorporating insights, usage data, quality signals, and market trends into strategy and launches.
• Mentor product managers and create reusable frameworks to improve product discovery and delivery across related areas.

Skills

Product discovery

Cross-functional leadership

Go-To-Market

Partnerships with engineers/designers

Influence senior leaders

Ambiguity leadership

Customer‑facing digital products

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Staff Product Manager – Google Built-In

At GM we empower expert product leaders to solve complex customer and business problems at scale. Product management is accountable for ensuring our solutions are valuable, viable, usable, measurable, and aligned to GM’s strategic priorities. This role requires broad product leadership across internal teams and external partners, using customer insights, product data, market trends, quality signals, and business context to set strategy, make trade‑off decisions, and drive measurable outcomes. We seek product managers who can influence teammates, stakeholders, executives, and partners through data, logic, customer evidence, and clear communication.

Job Description

At GM we empower expert product leaders to solve complex customer and business problems at scale. Product management is accountable for ensuring our solutions are valuable, viable, usable, measurable, and aligned to GM’s strategic priorities. This role requires broad product leadership across internal teams and external partners, using customer insights, product data, market trends, quality signals, and business context to set strategy, make trade‑off decisions, and drive measurable outcomes. We seek product managers who can influence teammates, stakeholders, executives, and partners through data, logic, customer evidence, and clear communication.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Staff Product Manager to serve as the product expert for GM’s Google built-in product area; shaping the long‑term strategy and roadmap to craft the evolution of the customer experience. This role requires an expert influencer who can align senior stakeholders, cross‑functional teams, and external partners through ambiguity across a complex global vehicle portfolio. You will report to the Group Product Manager for Google built‑in, Projection, and Profiles.

Google built‑in enables customers to bring their Google ecosystem into the vehicle’s native experience. This established, strategically important, and highly visible product area requires leadership across Google and GM teams to evolve the customer experience, influence partner roadmaps, and manage complex product trade‑offs. While concurrently embedding quality into the product lifecycle to deliver experiences that support GM’s broader business and platform strategies.

What You’ll Do

• Own the long‑term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for GM’s Google Built-In product area, ensuring alignment with GM’s broader business strategies.
• Partner with Google to understand and influence their product vision, strategy, and roadmap while influencing and aligning partner priorities with GM’s customer needs.
• Lead strategic product decisions, requirements alignment, prioritization, and be the voice of product during partner negotiations using customer insights, market trends, technical knowledge, and quality metrics.
• Lead cross‑functional alignment across GM and Google product, program, engineering, design, marketing, sales, quality, communications and business stakeholders to ensure goals, priorities, and accountability are clear.
• Actively monitor emerging market trends, customer behaviors, competitive moves, regulatory considerations, and technology shifts to identify opportunities or threats and shape future product strategy.
• Define product objectives and KPIs for the Google built‑in product area leveraging customer, quality, engagement, and reliability data sets to hold both internal and partner teams accountable with measurable outcomes.
• Communicate product strategy and trade‑offs to executives, partners, and cross‑functional teams with clear context and recommendations.
• Manage product launches, including developing go‑to‑market strategies and coordinating cross‑functional teams to ensure successful product launches.
• Drive continuous optimization of the product area using customer feedback, quality signals, product analytics, and competitive insights.
• Simplify complex technical, partner, and business topics into clear decisions, recommendations, and narratives that enable teams and leaders to move with urgency.
• Serve as an expert product leader and indirect leader across the product management function, mentoring product managers, raising the bar for product discovery and delivery practices, and creating reusable frameworks that improve product execution, support, and decision‑making across related product areas.
• Drive a customer‑obsessed product culture by making customer insights, vehicle usage data, quality signals, and market trends central to product strategy, prioritization, requirements, and launch decisions.
• Define and champion quality standards for the Google built‑in product area, ensuring customer experience, reliability, performance while driving accountability both internally and with partners.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Demonstrated understanding of product discovery and delivery methodologies
• 7+ years of cross‑functional experience working on customer‑facing digital products as either a product manager, product designer, or product engineer
• Must have automotive digital product or design experience
• Experience with product launch and Go‑To‑Market strategies
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship
• Experience working with external tech partners and managing those relationships
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, external partners, and cross‑functional teams through data, logic, customer evidence, and clear communication.
• Experience creating scalable product practices, operating mechanisms, requirements frameworks to influence related products.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, resolve competing priorities, and drive alignment both internally and externally without direct authority.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with Google Automotive Services or AAOS (Android Automotive Operating System)
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience leading product strategy for in‑vehicle infotainment, connected services, mobile companion, voice assistant, maps, app ecosystem, or platform products.
• Experience managing strategic relationships with major technology partners and influencing partner product roadmaps.
• Experience influencing executive‑level product decisions in a high‑complexity, cross‑functional environment.
• Experience launching products or capabilities across multiple vehicle programs, platforms, markets, or customer segments.

Hybrid

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week, at minimum. This position will be located in Mountain View, CA or Warren, MI.

Compensation

• The salary range for this role is $134,700 to $245,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this 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.

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.

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., H1‑B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J‑1, etc).

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