Staff Product Manager- Vehicle Observability

Job 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

The Staff Product Manager for Vehicle Observability owns the product strategy for GM’s in-vehicle observability capabilities across logs, metrics, traces, and analytics. This role defines the roadmap, success measures, and adoption strategy for how GM captures, curates, and uses vehicle data to improve engineering insight, product quality, and customer outcomes.

The successful candidate is expected to operate as a recognized expert, work with broad independence, lead large cross-functional initiatives, own KPIs tied to strategic outcomes, and influence decisions across organizational boundaries without formal people leadership authority.

What You’ll Do

• Define and lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Vehicle Observability across vehicle compute platforms and telemetry domains.

• Align product direction across engineering, platform, diagnostics, service, analytics, and product teams to ensure observability capabilities support both technical and business outcomes.

• Own top-level product KPIs, SLOs, and adoption metrics, and drive measurable progress against them.

• Lead prioritization and execution for platform improvements such as better signal quality, reduced noisy logging, stronger metrics and traces, and more scalable instrumentation patterns.

• Drive product decisions across platform tradeoffs including usability, cost efficiency, and long-term architectural direction, including the current mixed-environment strategy across Grafana Cloud, DataDog, and Heap.

• Ensure observability data is translated into actionable insight for engineering while maintaining clear separation between deep engineering telemetry and curated service-facing outputs.

• Communicate strategy, roadmap, tradeoffs, and business impact clearly to senior leadership and partner teams, using influence and strong judgment to build alignment across complex stakeholders.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.

• 8+ years of product management experience or relevant industry experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

• Proven ability to drive alignment and build consensus with cross-functional stakeholders

• Can-do attitude to ensure we find a way to move forward despite challenges and ambiguity

What Can Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills)

• Experience with connected vehicles, telematics, or IoT platforms

• Strong technical fluency in observability concepts such as logs, metrics, traces, alerting, dashboards, and telemetry pipelines.

• Experience launching products in global markets

• Understanding of data privacy, governance, or regulatory frameworks related to vehicle data

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. This position will be located in Mountain View, CA or Warren, MI.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.

• The salary range for this role is $134,700 to $245,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

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

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.

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