DETROIT, May 12 (Reuters) - General Motors ( GM ) has

hired Sterling Anderson, co-founder of self-driving trucking

company Aurora, as its executive vice president of global

product, the company said Monday.

The leader in autonomous vehicle technology, who will report

to GM President Mark Reuss when he joins GM on June 2, will also

be chief product officer and oversee product lifecycle for both

gas and electric vehicles. He will be based at the Detroit

automaker's Mountain View Tech Center in California.

Anderson co-founded Aurora in 2017 and before that worked at

Tesla, leading the Model X program and the Tesla

Autopilot team.

Anderson is leaving Aurora, where he was chief product

officer, after the company's recent commercial launch of its

fully driverless trucking service in Texas.

He joins GM as it shifts its focus from the autonomous

robotaxi to autonomy in personal vehicles. GM is working to

increase use of its Super Cruise hands-free driving systems

after ending its multi-billion-dollar-losing robotaxi business

Cruise, which focused on self-driving vehicles hailed by an app.