General Motors

Scrum Manager - Suspension Controls

General Motors • $100K — $130K *
Milford, MI 48381Hybrid
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in controls system development including integration and testing.
  • Proficiency in project management and leading meetings.
  • Effective interpersonal skills to influence and align with various stakeholders.
  • High analytical ability for addressing complex problems.
  • Understanding of Embedded Controls Development & Delivery Process.
  • Strong communication skills, both oral and written, with a focus on relationship management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead an agile scrum team focusing on Suspension Controls features.
  • Maintain and prioritize the team backlog to maximize output value.
  • Collaborate with various teams on program vision and backlog refinement.
  • Communicate cross-functionally to align with stakeholders and development partners.
  • Translate product strategy into User Stories for program increment planning.
  • Ensure technical integrity and address quality concerns for all deliverables.
  • Provide guidance and coaching to Scrum Team members.

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing benefit programs including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Retirement savings plan and life insurance options.
  • Paid vacation, holidays, and tuition assistance programs.
  • Employee assistance program and GM vehicle discounts.
  • Potential eligibility for relocation benefits.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid:

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Milford, Michigan three times per week, at minimum.

The Role:

As a Scrum Manger in Suspension Controls, you will lead an agile scrum team that is responsible for the analysis, design, coding, and testing of Suspension Controls features such as Ride Height, Damping, and Off-Road features. As a Scrum Manager, you are responsible for maximizing the value of the output of the agile scrum team, serving as the customer proxy, and ensuring the team understands and implements solution intent within the business context all while ensuring that software is delivered with world class quality. In the role of Scrum Manager, you will be collaborating with several other areas of engineering and the business (Engineering Stakeholders, Customers, and the Product Teams) to define, scope, and breakdown technical solutions into work items for the team. This role requires a high level of technical and innovative leadership. The selected candidates will lead the development of controls and diagnostics within an agile environment, using appropriate common methods for VMEC features and lead the growth in capability of controls and diagnostic methods to launch General Motors to the forefront of technology in the Suspension space.

As a Scrum Manager, your main responsibilities and deliverables are:
  • Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for scrum team's product content
  • Create, refine, maintain and prioritize the team backlog
  • Accept or reject the scrum team's work results at each Sprint Review meeting
  • Collaborate with the Suspension Agile Release Train (ART) Program Management Team to refine the Program Vision, Roadmap and Program Backlog for the ART
  • Collaborate with System Architect to determine enablers and coordinate rollout of enablers
  • Coordinate dependencies with other Scrum Managers when deliverables are dependent on other teams for completion
  • Communicate cross functionally both internally and externally to gain alignment with stakeholder, customers, and development partners. This includes partnering with Calibration teams to ensure that planned controls and software meet vehicle level performance requirements.
  • Be the customer voice to the Agile Team. Provide the team with clear information on whom the current and potential customers are, as well as the how, why, when, and with whom they use the product.
  • Ensure the technical integrity of the product is maintained and enables the solution to address program priorities by addressing anomalies and other quality concerns in a timely manner
  • Define clear acceptance criteria and determine demo/sprint schedule to prove out
  • Ensure engineering records are complete and stored appropriately
  • Work closely with Scrum Leader to ascertain team capacity
  • Translate product and feature strategy into User Stories, assisting Scrum Team with Story definition, estimation and sequencing for Program Increment Planning events
  • Work day-to-day with the Scrum Teams clarifying requirements, constantly communicating and gaining alignment around Feature or Product Strategy
  • Provide clearly defined acceptance criteria to enable Behavior Driven (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • Participate in BDD Behavioral Test Spec Triad discussions for applicable Solutions
  • Provide guidance for System Demonstration Strategy during Story creation (unit, integration and system level test strategy)
  • Verify Stories are testable and can be used to generate testing objectives
  • Ensure verification and testing of features occurs prior to End User Acceptance
  • Ensure the technical integrity of the product is maintained and enable the solution to address program priorities (Features and Enablers), thoroughly addressing anomalies and other quality concerns in a timely manner
  • Accept each story and participate in Team Demonstrations and Retrospectives to ensure quality, providing feedback to team and improving team processes
  • Ensure that Stories meet their pre-determined acceptance criteria, have appropriate, persistent Acceptance tests, and otherwise comply with Definition of Done (DoD)
  • Participate in the following Team and Program Events: Program Increment Planning, Iteration Retrospectives, ART Inspection and Adapt sessions, ART Synchronizations
  • Provide guidance and coaching to Scrum Team members
  • Perform other related duties as assigned


Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
  • Bachelor of Science degree in one of the following disciplines: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in controls system development. Including:
    • Control system integration and testing of hardware and software.
    • Vehicle electrical systems and serial data communications architectures.
    • System, software, and hardware requirements development and validation.
    • Change management
  • High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult
  • Demonstrated proficiency in project management skills
  • Experienced at planning, preparing for and leading meetings
  • Effective interpersonal skills that focus and influence others, including those which may have priority differences with yours.
  • Understanding of Embedded Controls Development & Delivery Process
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects and assignments with autonomy and accountability for results
    • Proficient oral and written communication skills
    • Outstanding interpersonal and relationship management skills to effectively collaborate with varying levels of the organization as needed
    • Strong partnership and teamwork skills, with demonstrated ability to learn from and share knowledge with co-workers in a fast-paced environment
    • High level of integrity, ability to deal with ambiguity, take initiative/self-directed
    • Evidence of strong character with integrity, honesty, accountability and trust
    • Consistent demonstration of innovative thinking that is customer-centric


What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
  • Master's degree in a field of Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
  • 8+ years of experience in vehicle chassis controls system development.
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) training or certifications.
  • Experience in the GM component specification and release process.
  • Experience with customer interface technologies.
  • Knowledge of vehicle dynamics and electronic chassis systems.
  • Knowledge of OBD-II diagnostics.
  • Knowledge of automotive safety integrity levels (ASIL).
  • DFSS Black Belt certification.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a Global environment.
  • Experience in plant modeling and analysis tools, MIL, SIL, HIL Testing


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.

Relocation:

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

The selected candidate will be required to travel

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General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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