Senior Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Senior Technical Program Manager

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead programs involving AI foundational infrastructure and optimized developer workflows.  As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) within the Autonomous Vehicle Cloud and Developer Infrastructure (CDI) team at GM, you will play a critical role in driving the development, testing, and delivery of complex, large-scale traditional and AI enhanced infrastructure to accelerate the delivery of next-generation autonomy software. 

You will be responsible for running project timelines, resources, and scope across multiple teams, ensuring alignment among all partners, and driving projects efficiently. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and critical thinking to innovate and drive the team toward achieving GM's goals, as well as a strong understanding of developer experience, automation, and development ecosystems. 

What You’ll Do 

• Partner with Technical Leads of customer engineering teams to turn their developer requirements and technical specs into achievable implementation roadmaps, including planning milestones and identifying cross-team dependencies 

• Drive the formulation and review of department roadmaps and objectives on a quarterly and monthly cadence 

• Work with Engineering Managers to ensure teams take on a balanced assignment of critical initiatives, iterative improvements, and proactive engineering excellence investments. Support calculation of team capacity vs estimated workload, and ensure teams can deliver on their commitments 

• Define and track KPIs, program metrics, and validation milestones to ensure timely delivery of engineering achievements 

• Work with Technical Leads on design decisions, and contribute to the department design reviews to ensure we continue to raise our technical standards 

• Ensure smooth execution of programs and continuously improve execution over time 

• Proactively identify risks and blockers across software and operations—and drive mitigation plans in real time 

• Lead program reviews with technical and executive stakeholders across AI Developer Experience teams 

• Establish confidence from partner teams to continuously minimize distractions or conflicts and push groups to improve their output 
   

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) 

• Proven experience in technical program management, especially within the developer experience and IT service fields. 

• Experience implementing and delivering developer experience or engineering productivity tooling and automation in a production environment. 

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and executive leadership 

• Strong systems thinking with the ability to connect high-level architecture to on-the-ground execution details. 

• Deep familiarity with automation and CI/CD program delivery; and technical development workflows