Staff Product Manager - ML Training Workflow

Job Description

The Role

At General Motors, we empower   P roduct   M anagers to solve challenging customer and business problems. We   seek   passionate and innovative team members who can collaborate effectively within product management, program management, design, and engineering teams to discover and deliver impactful solutions. We hold our teams accountable for results and seek leaders who can influence teammates, stakeholders, and executives using data and logic.

As a Staff Product   Manager   y ou will define and drive the product strategy, requirements, and execution priorities for the systems that enable large-scale model training, experimentation, evaluation, and developer productivity across GM’s autonomous vehicle platform. This role will own critical product surfaces and workflows that help machine learning engineers, data scientists, and autonomy teams prepare training data, configure experiments,   monitor   progress, evaluate outcomes, and improve iteration speed.

Success requires strong technical judgment, deep customer empathy for ML practitioners, and the ability to translate complex training workflow needs into clear product requirements. You should be comfortable partnering closely with engineering, infrastructure, data, finance, and autonomy stakeholders; making principled tradeoffs across velocity, cost, reliability, and model quality; and influencing without direct authority in a highly technical environment.

What   You’ll   Do

• Own product   r oadmap   and   execution for AI/ML training workflow capabilities that improve model development speed, training reliability, experiment traceability, and developer productivity.
• Deeply understand the end-to-end ML training lifecycle, including data   selection , dataset preparation, training job configuration, orchestration, monitoring, evaluation, debugging, and deployment handoffs.
• Act as the   voice of ML engineers , data scientists, autonomy developers, and infrastructure users by   creating and running pain point intake   loop ,   identifying   workflow friction, productivity bottlenecks, and opportunities to reduce cycle time.   Own framework to stack-rank and convert them into prioritized product   requirements.
• Define product requirements for training platforms, developer tools, observability systems, workflow automation, experiment management, and performance reporting.
• Drive a metrics-based approach to product decisions by defining KPIs for developer productivity, training throughput, cost efficiency, experiment success rates, and time-to-insight.
• Prioritize product investments   by balancing customer impact, engineering complexity, infrastructure cost, model quality impact, and business urgency.
• Fund   unglamorous   reliability and platform tech debt against competing demand for visible features, and of articulating   that   tradeoff   to senior leaders in terms of throughput and cost beyond engineering hygiene.
• Collaborate with engineering, program management, design, data platform, compute infrastructure, and finance teams to deliver high-impact capabilities on predictable timelines.
• Use data, user research, workflow analysis, and internal benchmarking to inform roadmap decisions and   validate   whether shipped capabilities improve developer experience and productivity.
• Communicate product status, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to senior leaders, technical stakeholders, and cross-functional partners.
• Mentor other product managers and cross-functional partners through technical product best practices, without direct people-management responsibility.
• Stay current on AI/ML platform trends, developer productivity tooling, model training infrastructure, and competitive approaches to large-scale ML operations.
• Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
• 8+ years of product management or related technical product experience, including ownership of complex software platforms or developer-facing products.
• Experience building products for AI/ML, data science, developer productivity, infrastructure, platform engineering, or other highly technical users.
• Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, requirements, and success metrics for complex software products from concept through delivery and iteration.
• Strong understanding of the ML lifecycle, including data pipelines, model training, experimentation, evaluation, performance analysis, and production handoffs.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use quantitative and qualitative evidence to   identify   workflow bottlenecks, prioritize investments, and measure product impact.
• Technical   proficiency   in working with complex software systems, distributed workflows, cloud or compute infrastructure, and data-intensive products .     You must be able to independently reason for distributed training failures, like checkpoint recovery, GPU   utilization   loss, job variance, orchestration failures, and hold a   reasonably technical   debate with an ML engineer.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical partners.
• Demonstrated ability to   partner with and   influence senior stakeholders and   cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
• Comfort   operating   in ambiguous, fast-moving technical environments and making clear tradeoffs across speed, quality, cost, reliability, and user experience.
• High ownership, resilience, and curiosity, with   a track record   of turning complex customer and engineering problems into practical product outcomes.

What   Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

Master’s or Doctorate degree in computer science, engineering, data science, machine learning, or   a related   technical field.

Experience working directly with machine learning engineers, data scientists, or research teams on training platforms, experimentation systems, model evaluation workflows, or   MLOps   tools.

Experience improving developer productivity through workflow automation, observability, self-service tooling, platform simplification, or internal product development.

Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation,   perception , planning, or other data-intensive AI systems.

Experience driving change in large, complex organizations while partnering across product, engineering, infrastructure, finance, and program management teams.

Hybrid:   This role is categorized as   hybrid . This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Warren Technical Center in Warren, MI or Sunnyvale, CA office three times per week, at minimum.

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 $245,00. 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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