This role is categorized as Hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI, Sunnyvale, CA or Mountain View, CA 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 int... more details
Job Description
This role is categorized as Hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI, Sunnyvale, CA or Mountain View, CA 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 Job 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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Benefits Overview
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• 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.
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We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.
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