General Motors is looking to define, develop, and integrate complex robotics solutions across manufacturing environments by bridging hardware and software disciplines, translating stakeholder needs into structured product requirements, and ensuring alignment with business strategy, safety standards, and operational goals.
Requirements
- 3–5 years in a technical product management role, with direct involvement in hardware/software co-development, systems integration, or robotics product delivery
- Skilled in translating stakeholder input into structured product requirements, including functional specs, interface definitions, and verification criteria.
- Strong understanding of complex hardware/software systems, with the ability to engage in technical discussions and evaluate tradeoffs.
- A background in the design of complex electromechanical system design, advanced perception systems, and/or industrial safety systems is preferred.
- Comfort with learning new technologies and asking the right questions is essential.
- Familiarity with Jama Requirements Management, FigJam, Lucidspark/ Lucidchart , along with excellent communication in written narrative documents and slide presentations.
- Experience with common product and project management tools used in both Agile and waterfall development environments.
Responsibilities
- Gather input from user experience design, engineering, safety, operations, and business stakeholders to define product needs and priorities to create a unified view of product needs, design requirements, and team priorities.
- Create product definitions tied to business strategy. Write product requirements and maintain them throughout the development cycle.
- Develop financial models to understand BOM cost sensitivity and ROI targets.
- Support program management by creating and managing prioritized backlogs and aligning feature definition and release plans with major program milestones.
- Participate in standups, design reviews, and technical discussions to stay aligned and proactively unblock development progress.
- Use your multidisciplinary technical expertise to facilitate product requirement tradeoff discussions across user experience, mechanical, electrical, and software teams.
- Identify opportunities to influence partner teams in design of adjacent physical and virtual manufacturing infrastructure.
Other
- This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, Michigan three times per week, at minimum.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of translating technical concepts for diverse audiences.
- Experience launching robotic products
- Previous experience working with teams developing against industrial safety standards (ISO 13849, ISO 61508) or in an analogous regulatory environment (eg medical devices)
- Exposure to manufacturing environments and previous experience fielding products into live production
