Technical Project Manager – Advanced Vehicle Development

General Motors • Warren, MI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

General Motors’ Advanced Vehicle Development organization is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to establish and operate a common work-management approach across program and project teams. The role configures and administers Jira, develops reusable work breakdown structure templates, facilitates Scrum execution, connects interdependent work across organizations, and provides clear status views for executives, leaders, and delivery teams. The position supports better execution visibility, cross-functional alignment, and delivery discipline as teams advance vehicle architecture and technology development.

The selected candidate will establish Jira practices and reporting standards, coach teams in delivery and work-management methods, coordinate dependencies and risks across organizations, and prepare leadership communications, operating reviews, training materials, and user guidance. The role is categorized as hybrid, with the selected candidate expected to report to a specific location at least three times per week or at another frequency set by their manager. Travel is less than 25%. Relocation benefits are available to candidates who qualify under company policy. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, information systems, project management, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• At least 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience configuring, administering, or scaling Jira or a comparable work-management platform.
• Experience with Scrum, Agile, Kanban, or other iterative delivery methods.
• Experience creating work breakdown structures, delivery templates, project taxonomies, or portfolio-management standards.
• Experience designing executive, leadership, and team dashboards using Jira or business-intelligence/reporting tools.
• Experience connecting dependencies and integrated schedules across engineering, software, product, information technology, or other technical organizations.
• Experience supporting vehicle development, advanced engineering, systems engineering, model-based systems engineering, or other complex product-development environments.
• Jira, Scrum, Agile, or project-management certification.
• Experience with workflow automation, dashboard design, data quality, or tool integration.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaboration, influence adoption, and foster a culture of transparency and accountability.
• Demonstrated initiative, sound judgment, continuous-improvement mindset, and ability to champion change.

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 to support consistent execution and reporting.
• Create reusable work breakdown structure templates for program teams and technical project teams.
• Translate program milestones and deliverables into epics, features, tasks, dependencies, and actionable work items.
• Plan, facilitate, and continuously improve Scrum events, including planning, daily coordination, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Adapt Scrum cadences, ceremonies, workflows, and reporting practices to team needs while maintaining common program-level standards.
• Partner with Scrum Managers, project managers, technical leads, and portfolio stakeholders across organizations to connect projects, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
• Establish mechanisms to identify, track, escalate, and resolve cross-organizational risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies.
• Create and maintain Jira dashboards and status views for executives, leadership, and teams.
• Define standard status metrics and reporting practices so project information is timely, consistent, and decision-ready.
• Coach teams on work management, backlog management, estimation, prioritization, and status reporting.
• Monitor adoption of the work-management approach and identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve execution efficiency.
• Develop leadership communications, operating reviews, training materials, and user guidance for Jira and related delivery practices.
• Work with information technology and enterprise tool teams on Jira integrations, access, data quality, automation, and reporting.
• Protect confidential company information and follow applicable General Motors policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.
• GM describes well-being support at work and at home and refers candidates to its Total Rewards resources; specific benefits are not listed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level