Partner Lead, Strategic Alliances

Job Description

The Strategic Technology Partnerships team is focused on empowering GM to achieve more by helping deliver best-in-class software and digital customer experiences.  We advance that goal by leveraging strategic technology partnerships to accelerate and differentiate GM’s Software and Services product roadmaps – and by unlocking large scale joint value creation with strategic partners in service of shared customers and initiatives.  Our orientation is towards sustainable, long-term value creation.  Through strategic partnerships, we propel General Motors into groundbreaking areas by identifying new opportunities, advising senior-level decision-makers, driving best-in-class deal making, and providing thought leadership to our stakeholders across the company. 

We are seeking a Partner Lead, Strategic Alliances who will be responsible for helping manage and cultivate large-scale technology partnerships. The role will work across and within project teams to deliver on key strategic technology initiatives. 

Working with our partners you will drive both innovation and a reimagination of automotive as an immersive, purpose-built platform for digital experiences.  In alignment and collaboration with leadership teams, you will help deliver 3rd Party partnerships, that position GM as a platform innovator. You are technical by nature, with an innate ability to both translate between technical and business teams.

This position is highly cross-functional and requires working with and leveraging resources from the product and strategy teams, technical, marketing, finance, and legal. 

What You’ll Do

• Support complex, large-scale, high-value strategic partnerships
• Help set and implement partner strategy
• Coordinate and organize efforts across a diverse set of internal stakeholders
• Directly represent GM in external partner communications 
• Navigate complex organizations and situations
• Coordinate cross GM | Partner touch points
• Support for existing partnerships and ongoing engagement

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Collaboration and relationship-building experience - with experience developing working relationships at all levels of management.
• Effective, creative, and data-driven storytelling capabilities
• Proactive, solution-oriented problem solver with "what would it take" mindset.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to orchestrate and successfully complete deals and programs.
• Experience working with product to define product strategy and product requirements.
• Experience with popular mobile & cloud technology platforms and corresponding business models
• Experience managing external relationships
• Comfortable navigating and driving organizational change
• Action oriented and operate with urgency
• Bachelor's degree in relevant field
• MBA Preferred
• Ability to travel 20% of the time

Additional Job Description

Location: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of (Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford or Mountain View), you are expected to report to that location three times a 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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

• The salary range for this role is $94,800 - $151,400. 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.

Relocation: This role may be eligible for relocation benefits

Immigration:

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

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