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Warren, Michigan, United States of America, United States of America
Hybrid
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Job Description
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin Technical Center or Warren GM Global Technical Center three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business if more than 3 days].
The Role
At General Motors, data governance enables trusted, secure, and well-managed data products that support analytics, engineering, operations, and business decision-making across the enterprise. This role helps translate governance strategy into repeatable operating practices by aligning policy, stewardship, tooling, and cross-functional execution.
The Senior Data Governance Team Lead is a senior leadership role responsible for driving governance execution across data domains, leading stewardship and operational processes, and improving how teams manage data quality, access, metadata, classification, and compliance. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, privacy, cybersecurity, legal, and platform teams to ensure governance requirements are practical, measurable, and consistently applied.
This role is also expected to strengthen governance adoption through process improvement, automation, metrics, and communication. Success in this position requires strong leadership, sound judgment, and the ability to turn complex governance requirements into clear workflows, accountability, and business outcomes.
What You’ll Do
This is a senior team lead position for a candidate who can lead governance work across people, process, policy, and tooling. The ideal candidate can operate across strategic and operational layers, influence stakeholders across functions, and guide teams through governance requirements without losing focus on usability, scale, and business value.
The role combines people leadership, stakeholder alignment, governance operating model design, and measurable execution. It supports enterprise data governance priorities such as stewardship enablement, external and inbound data governance processes, access and metadata standards, data quality monitoring, and governance health reporting.
What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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.
Compensation:
The expected base compensation for this role is: $125,000 - $175,000. Actual base compensation within the identified 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.
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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