Professional Development Program Manager

Job Opportunity At General Motors

This role is based remotely, but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Atlanta (GA), Austin (TX), Detroit (MI), Warren (MI), or Mountain View (CA) you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

The role is focused on designing, launching, and managing enterprise-wide development programs that strengthen core capabilities like communication, collaboration, emotional intelligence, and presentation skills. You'll work closely with our centralized teamsInstructional Design, Facilitation, Digital Learning, HRBPs, and People Analyticsto ensure these programs are timely, relevant, and aligned with GM's evolving competencies and business needs. If you're passionate about helping employees grow and creating learning programs that scale across a complex global organization, we'd love to have you on our team.

What You'll Do :

• Shape and manage professional development experiences that support ICs at all career stages.
• Scope new programs and refresh existing ones by leveraging a combination of digital tools, third-party resources, and in-house expertise.
• Translate GM's competencies, behaviors, and employee feedback into relevant, scalable learning journeys.
• Ensure learning materials are modern, modular, and accessible across formatslive, digital, and self-directed.
• Partner with Instructional Design, Digital Learning, Facilitation, HRBPs, and People Analytics to shape, evolve, and evaluate programs.
• Collaborate with SMEs and business partners to ensure content is practical and connected to real-world challenges.
• Evaluate, select, and manage external vendors to create and deliver impactful learning solutions, ensuring alignment with GM's competencies and behaviors.
• Leverage LMS platforms and digital learning tools to enhance the learning experience.
• Oversee program execution, to ensure timely and seamless coordination across internal stakeholders, facilitators, and third-party vendors as applicable.
• Monitor program milestones, ensure quality, and contribute to experience design without direct responsibility for logistical execution.
• Define and track success metrics such as Net Promoter Score (NPS), program adoption, and behavior change.
• Use data and learner insights to refine programs and inform broader development strategies.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) :

Compensation :

The salary range for this role is $68,900 - $105,700. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

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.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

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.