Strategic Technology Partner Solution Architect - Entertainment

Description
The Role
The Partner Solution Architect is the technical liaison between GM and our strategic technology partners (cloud, platform, device, and ecosystem partners). This partner-facing architecture role translates joint business objectives into scalable, secure, and reusable solutions, ensuring that partner capabilities are effectively integrated into GM's software-defined vehicle and digital experience ecosystem.
You will work side-by-side with Strategic Technology Partner (STP) program managers, Product, Engineering, Security, and Legal to design end-to-end solutions that are technically sound, operationally viable, and aligned to GM's long-term architectural direction from upstream partner exploration through partner launch.
What You'll Do
Partner-facing technical leadership

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for selected strategic technology partners across 2P and 3P partnerships.
• Collaborate with business, product, operations, and engineering teams to develop and execute the product roadmap for partner-enabled experiences.
• Assess partner requirements, roadmaps, and technical capabilities to inform business and operational decisions (e.g., scope, sequencing, SLAs, risk).
• Represent GM's architectural principles, constraints, and standards in partner technical forums, workshops, and design reviews.
• Work closely and proactively with technology partners and internal teams to deliver results and continuously improve processes for launching new products and services, including candidly surfacing risks and concerns early.

Solution architecture & design

• Lead end-to-end solution design for partner-integrated capabilities across vehicle, mobile, cloud, and enterprise systems.
• Provide technical expertise to inform integration solutions for complex problems with partners and internal stakeholders, balancing customer experience, technical feasibility, and long-term maintainability.
• Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and data flows (APIs, events, identity/consent, telemetry) that can be reused across teams and partner engagements.
• Ensure solutions meet GM's requirements for security, privacy, safety, reliability, performance, and compliance.
• Plan for future investments (platform capabilities, tooling, processes) needed to support high-quality and evolving customer experience standards.

Internal alignment & execution support

• Act as the bridge between business development and engineering, turning partner concepts and agreements into actionable technical designs and roadmaps.
• Facilitate multi-team design discussions (Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Procurement, Operations) to converge on clear solution decisions and trade-offs.
• Provide technical input into business cases and prioritization, highlighting dependencies, complexity, and reuse opportunities.
• Support teams through early delivery phases (e.g., PoCs, pilots, beta programs), then transition ownership to product/platform teams for scale-out and operations.

Governance, standards, and reuse

• Document solution decisions, patterns, and lessons learned to build a reusable playbook for future partner integrations and inform portfolio-level planning.
• Contribute to and influence architecture guardrails and standards for partner integrations (identity, consent, data residency, telemetry, SLAs, etc.).
• Identify and advocate for platform capabilities that reduce one-off work (e.g., shared integration services, SDKs, tooling, templates).

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 7+ years of experience in solution architecture, systems design, or technical leadership across complex, distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on background with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern integration patterns (APIs, event streaming, messaging).
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering cross-company or partner-integrated solutions (e.g., platform partnerships, OEM/partner integrations, large enterprise customers).
• Solid understanding of security, identity & access management, data privacy/consent, and reliability considerations in large-scale systems.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, concise way to non-technical stakeholders (business development, legal, finance).
• Track record of driving cross-functional alignment and navigating ambiguity to reach pragmatic technical decisions.

What will give you competitive edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience in automotive, mobility, consumer technology, or connected products.
• Familiarity with software-defined vehicle architectures, connected services, or large-scale mobile app backends.
• Experience working in or with program/portfolio management functions, translating roadmap-level intent into concrete delivery plans.
• Comfortable facilitating technical workshops, design reviews, and partner working sessions with mixed audiences (architects, engineers, product, legal, security).

Candidate Profile
You are:

• A systems thinker who enjoys mapping how products, platforms, and organizations fit together.
• Equally comfortable whiteboarding architectures with engineers and summarizing trade-offs for senior leadership.
• Skilled at building trusted relationships with external partners while firmly representing GM's needs and constraints.
• Motivated by turning ambiguous partner opportunities into clear, executable solutions that scale across multiple products and teams.

If you're excited by the idea of shaping how GM partners with the world's leading technology companies to deliver next-generation customer experiences, we'd love to hear from you.
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week, at minimum. This position will be located at the Mountain View Technical Center.
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 $245,000. 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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