Staff Product Manager - Digital Controls and Settings

Description

At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We're turning today's impossible into tomorrow's standard -from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features.

Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale

The Role

As Staff Product Manager - Vehicle Controls & Settings, you will lead the strategy and execution for GM's unified digital control and vehicle settings experiences. This role spans the entire domain of controls (immediate, action-oriented interactions) and settings (persistent, personalized configuration), shaping how customers understand, interact with, and customize their vehicles.

You will establish the overarching product direction for the vehicle Settings experience, digital and hybrid controls, and the broader ecosystem of preferences and personalization. You will define system-level patterns that create clarity, reduce complexity, and ensure consistency across GM's global vehicle portfolio.

This position requires operating at both strategic and execution levels, setting long-term vision, guiding cross-functional teams, and ensuring best-in-class experiences.

What You'll Do

• Own the unified product vision for Vehicle Controls & Settings, bringing together real-time control and customer preferences into a cohesive, intuitive experience.

• Define and prioritize features that simplify interactions, reduce confusion, and make controls and settings discoverable and intuitive.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams across engineering, UX/UI, vehicle architecture, human factors, and validation to deliver coherent control and configuration experiences.
• Translate research, safety requirements, and customer insights into scalable product patterns that apply across multiple vehicle lines.
• Shape the design and evolution of the Settings application , establishing clear structure, consistent logic, and taxonomy improvements for hundreds of preferences.
• Develop frameworks and interaction models that bring consistency to toggles, modes, controls, and configuration across all GM vehicle programs.
• Conduct competitive analysis and identify opportunities to advance personalization, configuration, and interaction quality.
• Manage roadmaps and backlogs for Controls & Settings, ensuring cross-functional alignment and clarity of priorities.
• Define KPIs and success metrics that measure usability, discoverability, and customer satisfaction across the domain.
• Communicate strategy, tradeoffs, and product direction to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.
• Lead post-launch evaluation and continuously improve the experience through customer feedback, data insights, and emerging trends.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 7+ years of product management experience in digital products, with at least 3 years in vehicle interfaces, human-machine interaction, or complex UX systems.
• Expertise in UI design patterns and human factors, with a proven ability to translate research, safety requirements, and customer insight into product direction.
• Strong leadership experience guiding cross-functional teams and aligning diverse stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of regulatory and automotive considerations related to digital controls and user interaction.
• Proven experience shaping strategy, managing roadmaps, and driving clarity in complex, technical environments.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, capable of influencing at multiple levels of the organization.
• Data-driven decision maker able to evaluate telemetry, research, and customer insights to set direction.
• Demonstrated ability to create frameworks, standards, and patterns that scale across products or programs.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• A forward-looking, strategic mindset with the ability to anticipate customer needs and craft long-term product vision.
• Strong fluency across software, hardware, UX, and vehicle systems, enabling holistic product thinking.
• Experience leading platform-level or framework-level product work that scales enterprise-wide.
• Deep grounding in human factors and user research, advocating for intuitive and safe interaction models.
• Proven success influencing complex, matrixed organizations and driving alignment across technical and design stakeholders.

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week, at minimum.

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.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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Client-provided location(s): Warren, MI

Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202602014

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-04T00:23:23