Innovation Manager - AI Agents

GM•Warren, MI

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you excited by the capability of AI agents? Are you interested in working with the creative people that design General Motors vehicles? Are you a strategic thinker that can plan out roadmaps and clearly frame up new opportunities for execution? The Role As an Innovation Manager for AI agents, you will identify challenges to help GM’s global Design Studios work more efficiently and effectively using AI. Partnering closely with AI Agent Engineers, design studio users, and supporting technology teams to ensure that we’re prioritizing the most impactful use cases. We are looking for someone with experience running discovery with users (empathy interviews, shadowing, workflow mapping) and turning insights into clear problem statements and requirements. You will translate the needs of creative design, sculpting, and fabrication teams into a clear roadmap for AI agents, organizing and prioritizing a backlog of requests based on impact, effort, and strategic alignment. You should be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, communicating trade-offs and decisions to both studio leaders and technical partners, Translating ambiguous issues into execution strategies. While you won’t write code or build models yourself, you will partner closely with AI agent engineers and IT teams to shapes solutions, ensure they are production-ready, and drive adoption across the studios.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in design, business, or related field; equivalent experience in a design studio, creative production, product, or operations role will be considered.
2+ years in product, program, operations, or service design roles supporting creative, design, or digital product teams
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced environment
High level of analytical problem-solving skills and working through ambiguity
Ability to handle many complex assignments with a high level of autonomy and accountability
Demonstrated ability to ‘lead up’ and influence cross-functionally
Ability to present ideas and concepts for buy-in to large groups and leadership teams

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with AI productivity tools and/or enterprise AI agent platforms

Responsibilities

Strategic product leader, user advocate, individual contributor role
Identify challenges, articulate objectives, document problem statement, scope and quantify tangible business benefit
Rank and prioritize submissions based on value, strategic alignment, constraints and effort
Define user requirements and stakeholder success criteria
Develop and align strategic capability roadmaps for each function
Describe enablers, risks and dependencies
Plans, frames, and executes innovation with project management team
Collaborate with AI agent engineers, project managers, design leaders, user groups, Design IT and Enterprise IT platform teams
Ensures production readiness plan will meet stakeholder’s needs
Engages with external software vendors
Cleary articulates success areas and lessons learned