Staff Product Data Scientist, Vehicle Analytics & Insights

We are building a new Vehicle Analytics & Insights team within GM’s Vehicle Product organization, and this role is a foundational hire. As a Staff Product Data Scientist , you’ll help define how analytics informs product decisions for GM’s vehicle experience. You’ll work at the intersection of vehicle data, product strategy, and user behavior-turning complex telemetry and product signals into clear, actionable insights. Your work will help product teams move beyond intuition to a quantitative understanding of how customers use, adopt, and experience vehicle features at scale.

You’ll partner closely with product managers, engineers and designers and play an early role in shaping product analytics standards, metrics, and how insights are used across the organization.

This role offers meaningful ownership and visibility, with the opportunity to shape how product analytics drives decisions and scales across GM as the capability grows.

What You’ll Do:

• Define, standardize, and evolveproduct success metrics and KPI frameworksacross in-vehicle experiences, ensuring consistency, clarity, and alignment to customer value and business outcomes.
• Lead theproduct analytics instrumentation strategy, partnering with Product and Engineering to define what data should be captured, how it should be implemented, and how quality and consistency aremaintained.
• Act as a thought partner to product teams to proactivelyidentifyopportunities and inform prioritization and product strategy, rather than responding to ad hoc requests.
• Perform deep-dive analyses to understandcustomer journeys, engagement patterns, friction points, and value momentsacross in-vehicle experiences, translating complex behavioral data into clear, actionable insights.
• Design, build, and owndashboards and self-serve analyticsthat enable product teams and leaders to continuouslymonitorproduct performance, adoption, and health.
• Frame complex analytical findings into clear decision narratives, explicitly surfacing tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities to influence product strategyand prioritization.
• Set best practices for experimentation and causalinferencein environments where traditional A/B testing may be constrained, applying statistical rigor and sound judgment to real-world product decisions.
• Helpestablishthe foundational product analytics practices for the VehicleProduct organizationthat will scale as the team grows.
• Act as aforce multiplier for analytics capability, mentoringanalystsand product partners, raising data literacy, and enabling teams to increasingly self-serve insights whilemaintaininghigh analytical standards., This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.

• Master’s degree in Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 7+ years of experience in data science or analytics, with a strong preference for product analytics / product data science roles supporting software or digital products.
• Expert-level SQL skills, with a demonstrated ability to define trusted metrics,validatedata, and diagnose data quality issues in complex, evolving data ecosystems.
• Strong experience usingPython (or similar languages)for exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, experimentation, and automation.
• Demonstrated ability totranslate data into clear stories and recommendations, and to communicate technical concepts effectively to audiences with varying levels of technical depth.
• Hands-on experience withdata visualization and BI tools(e.g., Databricks, Power BI, Looker, or similar) and a strong point of view on what makes dashboards useful versus misleading.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively across Product, Engineering, Design, and adjacent teams.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience designing and analyzing experiments or feature rollouts, including an understanding (and/or application) of causal inference and real-world constraints.
• Track recordof driving impact beyond a single team or product, influencing how multiple teams approach measurement, decision-making, or experimentation.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, early-stage environments, where processes are still being defined and impact comes from building the foundation as much as delivering immediate insights.

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 compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.

• The salary range for this role is 159,400 and 245,700. 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

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., Company vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, though 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., We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team., General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.