Principal, Core Experience Product Partnerships

General Motors

12h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Strategic Technology Partnerships team is focused on empowering GM to achieve more by helping deliver best-in-class software and digital customer experiences. We advance that goal by leveraging strategic technology partnerships to deliver on GM’s software product vision and accelerate our engineering roadmaps. We unlock large scale joint value creation with strategic partners in service of shared customers and initiatives. Our orientation is towards sustainable, long-term value creation. Through strategic partnerships, we propel General Motors into groundbreaking areas by identifying new opportunities, advising senior-level decision-makers, driving best-in-class deal making, and providing thought leadership to our stakeholders across the company.

The Core Experience Product Partnerships pillar manages and cultivates large-scale technology partnerships with a direct impact on core in-vehicle and mobile experiences, OS, and strategic platform integrations. We are seeking a dynamic individual to grow our team as a Principal, Core Experience Product Partnerships, with a focus on mapping and navigation.

Reporting to the Head of Core Experience Product Partnerships, this high-impact role requires a seasoned professional with a deep understanding of the mapping and navigation domain and a proven track record of driving first-of-a-kind, large scale, and innovation-focused partnerships.

Requirements

• 8+ years of cross-functional experience in roles such as business development and partner management
• A consistent record of building high-trust relationships at all levels of management
• A data-driven approach to developing partnership strategy with a passion for operational excellence
• Strong leadership presence and exceptional communication skills for all levels, both verbal and written
• Proactive, solution-oriented problem solver with a "what would it take" mindset
• Experience and knowledge of the mapping and navigation space, automotive experience preferred
• Experience and knowledge of popular mobile & cloud technology platforms and their corresponding business models
• Comfortable navigating and driving organizational change
• Ability to travel 25% of the time

Nice To Haves

• MBA Preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop, negotiate, and support complex, large-scale, high-value strategic partnerships with an initial focus on the navigation and mapping domain
• Articulate data-driven priorities on the retail and commercial front to define and prioritize partner strategies
• Collaborate with a diverse set of cross-functional teams – including product, engineering, design, program, legal, and others – to launch best-in-class offerings
• Become a trusted advisor to internal collaborators and leadership by showcasing highly effective partner management and business development skills and providing strategic recommendations to achieve key business objectives
• Manage, present to, and influence key senior internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and advance strategic initiatives Actively engage with key industry associations and consortia to bring diverse perspectives into our strategic initiatives

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.
• This role may be eligible for relocation benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees