Sr Manager - Product Integration

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 Senior Manager, Product Integration is a GM Level 9 people leader accountable for a distinct business area: transforming new ARC products into validated, deployable, and service-ready robotics systems at scale across GM manufacturing. This role owns the integration layer between product development, validation, safety, outside suppliers, and plant deployment—ensuring ARC products are not only engineered correctly, but proven, certified, and operationally ready. This role will serve early TRL levels by defining VTS requirements and late TRL levels by proving readiness in the operating environment.

What You'll Do

• Defines and executes the end-to-end integration, validation, and readiness strategy for ARC products.
• Leads a team of leaders and senior technical experts, setting strategy, objectives, and KPIs for the integration function.
• Influences across Manufacturing Engineering, MO, MEIT, GPSC, Safety, and plant teams to define and refine integrated solutions that meet the business, safety, and cost targets identified by the robotics vertical organization.

Key Responsibilities

1. Own the Integration Strategy and Roadmap

• Own a distinct business area: ARC product integration, validation, and readiness, from concept through production deployment and service.
• Develop and maintain a multi‑year integration roadmap aligned to ARC and GM manufacturing strategies (scope, capacity, safety, and cost objectives).
• Define and own key performance indicators (e.g., integration maturity at gateways, late-stage defect escape rate, validation completeness, PoC conversion rate, service readiness). ### 2. Development & Supplier Integration
• Set system integration requirements and standards for outside suppliers and internal teams, ensuring alignment to ARC architecture, safety, and performance expectations.
• Provide direction and escalation path for outside supplier performance on quality, cost, timing, and technical risk, partnering closely with GPSC and Engineering.
• Ensure requirements discovered during design, prototype builds, and early deployment are translated into measurable, testable performance outcomes, in support of product management and program leadership.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex integration issues that cross product, software, controls, safety, and plant operations. ### 3. System-Level Test, Validation, and Certification
• Define and own system-level validation strategies (virtual and physical) that demonstrate products meet intended use cases, operational envelopes, and plant constraints.
• Ensure validation plans are risk-based, repeatable, and scalable across multiple plants and product families.
• Own compliance to relevant GM, regulatory, and industry standards, partnering with safety, certification, and compliance organizations.
• Establish clear certification pathways early in development, proactively managing complexity and avoiding late-stage risk that impacts program timing or plant launch. ### 4. Deployment and Readiness for Scale
• Lead Proof of Concept (PoC) planning and execution at pilot plant sites, ensuring they are structured to generate actionable learning, not just demonstrations.
• Define and implement service and maintenance readiness for new ARC products, including maintenance concepts, spare parts strategy, field service models, and documentation standards.
• Ensure that products are supportable and operable at scale, with clear ownership between ARC, plants, and suppliers for ongoing performance, uptime, and safety.
• Drive the transition from PoC to repeatable deployment playbooks, enabling plant and regional teams to deploy ARC products with predictable outcomes. ### 5. Leadership, People, and Change Management
• Lead a team of managers and senior technical leaders across integration, validation, and readiness, setting strategy, priorities, and expectations.
• Build organizational capacity by hiring, developing, and retaining top technical and leadership talent in robotics