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Job Details
Description
This role is categorized as Hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI 3 times per week, at minimum.
The Role:
As a Business Growth & Inception analyst within Enterprise Innovation, you will collaborate on early-stage concept discovery and inception to accelerate GM growth businesses and provide analyst support throughout the lifecycle of our internal startups from Ideation to Enterprise Integration. This is a Fortune 50 intrapreneurial role, requiring a bias to action, strategic mindset, excellent internal stakeholder engagement skills, non-linear judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and experience with coarse decision-making. Contribute to early-stage problem discovery, opportunity analysis and concept definition
What You'll Do:
For each project, within time-boxed constraints, you will:
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
Additional Description
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE
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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. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Total Rewards | Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Diversity Information
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful 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 encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (U.S.)
General Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Accommodations (U.S. and Canada)
General Motors 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 or call us at . 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.
This role is categorized as Hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI 3 times per week, at minimum.
The Role:
As a Business Growth & Inception analyst within Enterprise Innovation, you will collaborate on early-stage concept discovery and inception to accelerate GM growth businesses and provide analyst support throughout the lifecycle of our internal startups from Ideation to Enterprise Integration. This is a Fortune 50 intrapreneurial role, requiring a bias to action, strategic mindset, excellent internal stakeholder engagement skills, non-linear judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and experience with coarse decision-making. Contribute to early-stage problem discovery, opportunity analysis and concept definition
What You'll Do:
For each project, within time-boxed constraints, you will:
- Conduct grass-roots customer empathy and initial market research using interviews, focus groups, surveys, and secondary sources leveraging existing insights whenever possible.
- Define initial customer persona and problem hypotheses using human-centered design principles.
- Design and deploy with team input low-fidelity hypothesis testing to rapidly validate, iterate and generate critical insights that refine the customer definition and pain/gain/unmet opportunity spectrum.
- Conduct market sizing with team input and build simplified financial models with scenarios that justify an investment thesis.
- Provide input into stress-tested business model lean canvasses for each recommended opportunity with team input.
- Prepare material for strategic "pitches" on whether an idea should proceed/pause/perish/pivot.
- Exhibit courage and objectivity to ascertain when an idea is not worth pursuing and take action to pause or pivot
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years in growth strategy/innovation consulting, market analysis, strategic planning, finance, program management or innovation engineering roles with automotive or digital business focus.
- Hands-on experience with customer empathy research and low-fidelity hypothesis-based testing leading to synthesized insights, lean canvas development and a startup pitch or corporate activation
- Experience working with leaders in large organizations and demonstrated ability to influence, cross-functionally align OR working for startup companies or team
- Excellent relationship building and communication skills
- The desire and demonstrated ability to be both creative and technically minded
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
- MBA and operational scale-up experience are a strong plus
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience working with or for startups and/or with corporate innovation.
Additional Description
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE
#LI-HF1
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. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Total Rewards | Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Diversity Information
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful 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 encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (U.S.)
General Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Accommodations (U.S. and Canada)
General Motors 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 or call us at . 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.