General Motors

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## The Role As the Staff Technical Program Manager for Developer Experience, you'll own the execution of core programs that improve how GM builds, secures, and ships software. This is a hands-on delivery role: you'll take specific initiatives end to end, keep them moving across teams, support vendor evaluations, and help developers adopt the tools and practices we invest in. You'll work with engineering leaders and the Developer Experience team, running programs with minimal guidance and pulling in leadership at the decision points that matter. You'll also act as a resource and mentor to less-experienced program managers. ### What You'll Do Own and drive program execution. Turn priorities into plans and execution. The work varies—examples include developer enablement for new critical tools, managing platform migrations, addressing platform issues, and improving developer environments and workstations. You'll run the delivery cadence, track work against targets, surface blockers early, and drive the decisions needed to keep momentum. You'll manage complexity across teams, coordinating multi-team initiatives so they land with minimal disruption to developers. Drive cross-functional alignment. Bring IT, Engineering, Cyber Security, and Legal together to resolve program-level questions like access models for external collaborators. Use data and clear options to reach agreement without direct authority. Shift governance left by helping replace manual gatekeeping with automated governance that keeps developers safe without slowing them down. Coordinate vendor and tool relationships. Support key tool vendors and help ensure GM gets real value from its spend. Run tool evaluations, structure pilots to produce clear data on productivity and security impact, and turn that data into recommendations. Drive adoption and enablement. Support the change management that makes new tools and practices stick. Help design engagement models like Inner. Source and communities of practice that get teams to adopt shared standards. Keep developer documentation and paved-road templates current so the recommended way to build software at GM is also the easiest. ### Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications) - Program leadership: 7+ years leading technical programs in Dev. Ops, Cloud, or Platform Engineering. - Education: BS or MS in an engineering-related discipline, or equivalent experience. - Independent execution: Proven ability to own complex, multi-team programs end to end with minimal guidance, handling operational friction and cross-team coordination so engineering leaders can stay focused on architecture and code. - Change and adoption: Experience driving technical and cultural change in complex, regulated enterprise environments and getting real teams to adopt new tools and practices. - Vendor and tool acumen: Experience coordinating enterprise software vendor relationships and the practical aspects of tool integration like licensing, identity, and support. - Data-driven communication: Ability to turn metrics into clear, honest narratives for engineering and leadership audiences, without dressing up activity as impact. - Engineering enablement: A real focus on making developers more productive. You understand how engineers work day to day, where they hit friction, and how to remove it so teams can do their best work with less overhead. - Influence without authority: Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to build trust with engineering and IT leaders, bridge gaps between teams, and drive agreement on hard decisions. - AI-native practice: You use AI tools in your own daily work and can speak from real experience about where they help and where they do not. ### Compensation and Benefits The salary range for this role is $134,700 to $245,000, based on a good faith estimate for positions in the California Bay Area; actual base salary will vary based on factors relevant to the position. An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs including medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, and GM vehicle discounts. Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you'll be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program where you'll be assigned a GM vehicle to drive and evaluate (note: program participants are required to purchase or lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless an exception applies). ### Additional Details This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week (or other frequency dictated by your manager). This job is not eligible for relocation benefits; any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future, including H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, or any work authorization requiring employer support.