AVP IT Delivery Transformation

GM Financial

$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in Agile, OKR, and Product Delivery practices.
  • Demonstrated expertise in product development process cycles.
  • Thorough understanding of strategic planning business principles.
  • Ability to facilitate change within an organization.
  • Expertise in portfolio management techniques and operational transformation.
  • Practical use of AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for productivity enhancements.
  • Strong skills in matrix leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the overall strategy for product delivery from planning to execution.
  • Connect strategic priorities with product strategy and planning processes.
  • Establish and improve delivery guidance, standards, and best practices.
  • Develop a strategic plan for Agile delivery transformation implementation.
  • Operationalize OKRs and delivery metrics organization-wide.
  • Lead and coach teams to enhance delivery practices and innovation.
  • Identify and test new working methods to improve performance.

Benefits

  • 401K matching provided from day one.
  • 12 weeks of paid bonding leave for new parents.
  • Tuition assistance for continued education.
  • Discount on GM vehicles for employees.
  • Paid community service time for employees.
  • Nine company holidays observed each year.
  • Flexible hybrid working model with 3 days in the office.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

About The Role:

This role is responsible for building the organizational capability to deliver effectively and predictably, with high-quality execution across the portfolio and alignment to the Product Operating Model. Through coaching, delivery insights, and continuous improvement, the role enables teams to increase flow, quality, and predictability while preserving clear ownership within empowered Product Teams. The role supports multiple products and platforms and works in close partnership with Product Operations, including a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Product Operations leader, to ensure delivery practices consistently reinforce and enable the Product Operating Model. They will partner with teams across their area of responsibility to strengthen strategic planning, align delivery priorities, and serve as a delivery transformation leader who brings clarity, structure, and momentum to execution. The role's key outcome is to continuously improve the delivery system. Product Teams remain accountable for product strategy, prioritization, delivery commitments, and business outcomes.

In this role you will:
  • Manage the strategy for entire delivery from strategic planning to tactical activities
  • Connect strategic priorities, product strategy and planning, technical debt management, and human capital planning
  • Establish and continuously improve guidance, standards, and best practices for delivery practices, including Agile ways of working, flow management, estimation approaches, capacity planning approaches, release management approaches, delivery health, continuous improvement, and delivery metrics (including Flow Metrics and DORA)
  • Develop and implement a strategic plan for Agile delivery transformation
  • Operationalize all OKRs and delivery metrics for the organization
  • Lead, coach, and develop teams in strengthening delivery practices, and driving continuous improvements
  • Build Agile Lead capability through coaching, mentoring, training, communities of practice, and continuous learning
  • Analyze problems and opportunities using quantitative and qualitative insights
  • Use innovation methods and cross-functional expertise to generate practical solutions
  • Test new ways of working and scale promising ideas that improve outcomes
  • Drive our Artificial Intelligence (AI) SLDC capabilities
  • Coach, mentor and assist team members to establish a consistent level of quality, practices, accuracy, compliance to departmental standards, regulations, and internal controls
  • Partner with Product Management and Engineering leaders to align on delivery ways of working, clarify roles and responsibilities, and resolve organizational impediments impacting Product Team effectiveness
  • Work in close coloration with Product Operations to execute against the Product Practices roadmap


Qualifications

What Makes You an Ideal Candidate?
  • Proven experience of Agile, OKR & Product Delivery practices and scaling those within an organization that lead to lasting transformations
  • Demonstrated expertise in product development process cycles
  • Thorough understanding of the business principles involved in strategic planning
  • Ability to drive change
  • Demonstrated understanding of portfolio management techniques and transforming organizations
  • Practical use and responsible evaluation of AI tools, including Microsoft Copilot, Github copilot or equivalent
  • Ability to facilitate, coach and guide through influence, inspiration, collaboration and teamwork
  • Ability to integrate AI into workflows to improve productivity and decision-making
  • Matrix leadership, servant leadership, and cross-functional collaboration


Additional Knowledge and Skills

Working effectively within an AI enabled environment:
  • Ability to use AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) to support daily work
  • Skills in evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, compliance, and bias
  • Experience integrating AI into workflows to improve efficiency or insights
  • Familiarity with AI assisted research, summarization, and content generation
  • Understanding of responsible AI use, including ethics and data protection


Experience & Education:
  • 8-10 years of relevant experience required
  • 2-4 years of experience leading people and teams required
  • Agile or Product Transformations
  • High School Diploma or equivalent required
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
  • Agile Certification preferred


What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.

Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.

Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 3-days a week in office.

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