Vehicle Development PM | Jira & Scrum Leader

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager for its Advanced Vehicle Development team. You will establish Jira-based work-management, create templates, and drive Scrum cadence across program and technical project teams to improve execution visibility and cross-functional alignment.

The role focuses on delivering structured epics and milestones, coordinating dependencies, and enabling executives and teams with clear status views and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, information systems, project management, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in technical project management, program management, engineering operations, product development, or a related delivery environment.
• Demonstrated experience organizing complex, cross-functional work into actionable plans, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Experience facilitating project execution across multiple teams or organizations without direct authority.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to convert complex technical and organizational information into clear status, decisions, actions, and executive-level recommendations.
• Strong analytical, planning, prioritization, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and adapt to changing program needs.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain Jira as a work-management solution for Advanced Vehicle Development program and project teams.
• Define Jira workflows, issue types, fields, permissions, naming conventions, and operating guidelines that support consistent execution and reporting.
• Create reusable work breakdown structure templates for different Advanced Vehicle Development team types, including program teams and technical project teams.
• Translate program milestones and deliverables into appropriately structured epics, features, tasks, dependencies, and actionable work items.
• Plan, facilitate, and continuously improve Scrum events, including planning, daily coordination, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Customize Scrum cadences, ceremonies, workflows, and reporting practices to fit the needs of specific team types while maintaining common program-level standards.
• Partner with Scrum Managers, project managers, technical leads, and portfolio stakeholders across other organizations to connect related projects, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
• Establish and maintain mechanisms for identifying, tracking, escalating, and resolving cross-organizational risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies.
• Create and maintain multiple Jira dashboards and status views that provide the right level of information for each audience: Executive, Leadership, Team.

Skills

Technical PM

Program management

Cross-functional work

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

BI tools

Job description

General Motors is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager for its Advanced Vehicle Development team. You will establish Jira-based work-management, create templates, and drive Scrum cadence across program and technical project teams to improve execution visibility and cross-functional alignment.

The role focuses on delivering structured epics and milestones, coordinating dependencies, and enabling executives and teams with clear status views and reporting.