Technical Integration Lead - CAD

This role is categorized as hybrid. The selected candidate will be expected to work on-site at the Warren Tech Center at least three days per week, or as otherwise determined by the hiring leader.

• This role is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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..

About the Role

General Motors is seeking an CAD Technical Integration Lead to guide the strategy, integration, release readiness, and reliable operation of Siemens Designcenter NX and its integrated applications. The role serves as the accountable technical and business product owner for the Designcenter NX CAD ecosystem, supporting 10,000 users across the enterprise.

You will translate engineering and business needs into a clear roadmap, technical direction, deployment decisions, and operational priorities. Working across engineering, manufacturing, IT, PLM, delivery teams, Siemens, and other suppliers, you will help ensure that CAD platform and its integrations support connected engineering workflows and business outcomes. This role requires strong domain judgment, structured problem solving, and the ability to build alignment and lead through influence across organizational boundaries.

What you’ll do

• Own the Designcenter NX/CAD strategy, roadmap, and technical direction in alignment with engineering, manufacturing, PLM, and digital-thread priorities.

• Serve as the business product owner for Siemens Designcenter NX and its integrations with Teamcenter/Active Workspace, Global Product Development Library, visualization, materials, simulation, electrical and harness applications, manufacturing, and downstream workflows.
• Lead planning and validation of content and testing for monthly updates and periodic Designcenter NX version upgrades, including readiness criteria, pilots, defect management, deployment coordination, and go/no-go recommendations.

• Coordinate release, patch, and deployment decisions with business teams, IT, delivery teams, and suppliers to manage risk and minimize disruption.
• Provide leadership for high-priority incidents and problem management, including risk identification, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and knowledge capture to reduce recurrence.
• Convene and lead CAD business/IT governance forums; clarify priorities, decisions, risks, roadmaps, dependencies, and communications.
• Support Siemens and supplier management, including licensing, forecasts, entitlements, utilization, support models, statements of work, supplier performance, and defect escalation.
• Improve license availability, demand accuracy, utilization, cost transparency, and commercial leverage through evidence-based planning and management.
• Identify opportunities to improve self-service guidance, reusable knowledge, automation, testing, and operational processes.

• Evaluate automation and AI-enabled engineering capabilities for business value, security, maintainability, supportability, and enterprise scale; align emerging solutions with Designcenter NX/CAD, PLM, governance, and operational requirements.

• Provide team member mentorship and help develop future technical owners and succession capability.
• Represent GM’s interest in capability development efforts with Siemens CAD functionality and related vendor integrations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related fields.
• 7+ years of experience with Siemens Designcenter NX/CAD in a complex product development environment.

• Experience translating business needs into product roadmaps, technical requirements, validation plans and deployment decisions.
• Knowledge of CAD integrations and connected engineering workflows, such as PLM, manufacturing, simulation, visualization, materials, electrical, and downstream applications.
• Experience planning or validating software releases, upgrades, patches, or enterprise deployments, including testing, readiness, defect management, and risk assessment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and experience leading incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for business-critical systems.
• Ability to work effectively across business, engineering, IT, delivery teams, and suppliers, and to influence decisions without direct authority.

• Strong communication, organization, and prioritization skills, with the ability to present technical topics, trade-offs, risks, and decisions to varied audiences, manage competing needs, and make evidence-based decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Design for Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
• Cross functional team leadership experience
• Experience leading change with software with business and IT teams
• Industry forum experience
• Experience with automation, artificial intelligence, data-driven analysis, or competitive benchmarking applied to technical decisions
• Experience working with internationally distributed teams and stakeholders

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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