Sterling Anderson
Executive Vice President, Global Product and Chief Product Officer
2021-02-19
Sterling Anderson was appointed executive vice president, global product, and chief product officer in June 2025. He oversees the end-to-end product lifecycle for both gas- and electric-powered vehicles, including hardware, software, services and user experience.
Before joining GM, Sterling designed, developed and launched several industry-defining products. In 2017, he co-founded Aurora where, as chief product officer, he helped lead the company through its launch of the world’s first commercial, fully driverless trucking service. Before Aurora, he worked at Tesla, where he led the design, development and launch of the Model X, then led the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot. Prior to Tesla, he advised world-class companies on their product development strategy and practice as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and he developed Intelligent Co-Pilot, a semi-autonomous vehicle safety system, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Anderson holds both a master's degree and a Ph.D. in robotics from MIT.