Staff Product Manager – Google Built-In

General Motors•Mountain View, CA

6d•$134,700 - $245,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.