Hybrid Staff Product Manager – Simulation Testing

at General Motors

• Job title: Staff Product Manager – Simulation Testing
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $178,100 - $274,300 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Mountain View, United States

About the role

• Staff Product Manager driving simulation testing strategy and product management in autonomous vehicles. Leading innovation and cross-functional efforts to enhance vehicle performance through software and testing.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term product vision, setting strategic direction for Simulation Testing infrastructure at GM.
• Build Novel Testing Products: Drive innovation in test pool composition (e.g. dynamic, generative test suites, and sufficient coverage sourcing) and automatic metrics interpretation that surface issues at scale without need for human analysis.
• Unify Testing across Functions: Deliver a cohesive testing platform that aligns the needs of AV software developers and AV systems engineers—bridging the gap between development testing and release validation.
• Partner with AI/ML Sim teams for Efficiency Opportunities: Leverage machine learning to automatically create and maintain simulation scenarios, and uncover test insights with minimal manual labeling or curation.
• Scale via Contractor Workforce: Design workflows and tools to enable a skilled contractor workforce to participate in test creation, triage, maintenance, and analysis—freeing up core engineering resources and increasing operational velocity.
• Help drive a data-driven culture and establish and monitor key metrics to measure the effectiveness of Simulation Testing products.

Requirements

• 5+ years product management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related fields
• Solid understanding of the modern software, tooling technology stack, including simulation and ML.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive projects forward, even without a clear path.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership
• Proven ability to balance tradeoffs between user needs and expectations, technical requirements and constraints and business objectives.
• Demonstrated expertise in writing, with the ability to effectively balance and integrate vision, strategy, and technical details in a cohesive narrative.

Benefits

• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• 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.