Job Description

Are you someone who thinks outside the box? Are you willing to be bold and challenge the status quo? If you are passionate about helping to shift mindset and influence cultural change, this is the role for you.

As an Agile Coach within the Digital Business Team (DBT) at General Motors (GM) you will help drive our organization's Agile transformation by providing coaching, mentoring, and training support to our teams and leaders across our Lines of Business, Channel, and Solution teams, specifically in support of Product Management and Strategy. You will partner with a group of other Agile Coaches as well as Technical Agile Coach's to provide support across multiple Value Streams and help our teams figure out what to stop, continue or start doing - all toward the goal of driving Agile Transformation in a key area of GM's business.

Remote: This position does not require employee to be on-site full-time to perform most effectively. The employee's role enables them to work off-site on a permanent basis.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands on strategic coaching, consulting, and support to Product Management team(s) in adopting an agile mindset and practices with a focus on growing the capabilities of the team
  
• Coach, teach, and mentor leaders and teams to develop the needed agile events, product vision, strategy, objective(s), roadmap(s), and OKRs
  
• Facilitate analysis of multiple agile approaches and help the team consider what they will adopt to serve their unique needs
  
• Build positive relationships with several different groups across the organization
  
• Empower teams to come to consensus to act or make changes as needed
  
• Mentor teams, individuals and leadership in teamwork skills and the application of agile principles
  
• Enable organizational agility by creating the conditions and alignment for change
  
• Foster a continuous improvement environment to build high-performing, agile teams
  
• Coach teams through observation and feedback as well as through role-based training in Agile and Product Management
  
• Effect change at all levels and across large numbers of teams/products
  
• Encourage and empower teams to collaborate, take ownership, be transparent and continually strive for improvement
  
• Identify gaps and opportunities in Value Stream and make recommendations to improve
  
• Identify knowledge gaps within a team or teams and develop or utilize existing Agile trainings to fill those gaps
  
• Deliver role-based product training, workshop for leadership of each LOB, agile team and enable employee engagement
  
• Train individuals and/or cross functional teams to define and understand their Products and associated Value Streams
  
• Model continuous education by keeping pace with industry and best practices
  
• Ability to travel 10-15% of the time

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of progressive experience in related functions (Agile Coach, SAFe Program Consultant(SPC), Scrum Master/Lead, Product Manager, RTE, Program Manager, etc)
  
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  
• Experience coaching and/or consulting
  
• Effective team player, capable of partnering with a team of strong, experienced coaches
  
• Experience with and understanding of the Agile Manifesto, principles and how to help teams through their Agile transformation
  
• Expert communicator - both written and verbal
  
• Experience creating and presenting concepts and recommendations to all levels of the team
  
• Able to operate in ambiguous environments
  
• Ability to remain flexible and respond to organizational and/or business change
  
• Ability to take direction and run with it

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as an Agile Coach or SAFe Program Consultant
  
• Related certification: ACP and/or CSM and/or SPC and/or ICP-ACC
  
• Teaching or instructing experience

Compensation:The median level of salary compensation for this role is 126,751.01 USD Annual

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

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About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities.GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

The policy of General Motors is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. Additionally, General Motors is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us atCareers.Accommodations@GM.com or call us at800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.