Lease Sprint Manager

Stellantis Financial Services US; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantis Financial Services is seeking a Lease Sprint Manager to lead a cross-functional sprint team, prioritize the product backlog, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver enhancements to the Lease originations system. This hybrid role requires 5+ years in auto finance or lending, strong product lifecycle knowledge, and experience with agile environments.

The position involves managing vendor relationships, drafting user stories, and guiding the team through development lifecycles while

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required with strong analytical and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years in auto finance or lending; strong product lifecycle experience.
• Experience creating and prioritizing epics and features; competitive research.
• Ability to write reports, test plans, and business requirements; MS Office proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead Sprint Team planning, coaching, and performance reviews.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and PM to define vendor requirements and test plans.
• Manage multiple initiatives across development lifecycle and maintain product backlog.
• Draft stories into tasks for development; support triage and decision making.
• Identify opportunities for testing and product enhancements based on results.

Skills

Product lifecycle

Epics & features

Competitive analysis

Requirements writing

Communication skills

MS Office

Originations systems

Education

High school diploma or GED

Bachelor's degree in business/related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Careers At Stellantis Financial Services

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Stellantis Financial Services (SFS) is the new captive finance company for one of the world's leading automakers and a mobility provider with iconic brands including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall, Free2move and Leasys.

Our exciting growth provides opportunities to advance your career as we successfully lead products and services from a small to mid-size company in just a few years. Join our world class team and culture and contribute to our core mission which is enhancing our customer's experience.

Position Summary

The Lease Sprint Manager assigns projects and initiatives for the Lease indirect auto finance originations project team. The Manager partners with business stakeholders and the sprint team to deliver production support modifications, new features, and new or revised processes within the Lease originations system.

This is a hybrid position. Must have reliable transportation and live within a commutable distance to one of the following cities: Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Auburn Hills, MI; Houston, TX; Phoenix, AZ.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop performance reviews and goal setting for the Sprint Team staff
• Participate in research efforts for potential new products and vendors to represent and analyze feasibility within our framework
• Collaborate with Project Manager to manage vendor relationships to help define vendor requirements, test plans and implementation plans relating to the Lease originations system
• Manage multiple initiatives that are at different stages in the development lifecycle at a single time
• Responsible for the product backlog, organizing sprints, and are expected to answer questions from developers as needed
• Take project management initiatives and draft stories into tasks that the development team can execute on
• Manage daily triage processes for any operational tickets that are filtered into the team and work with the project management leaders to make tradeoff decisions
• Analyze past enhancements and create testing plans to optimize experiences
• Identify opportunities for testing and product enhancements based on results
• Perform other ad hoc duties as assigned

Additional

Perform the above-referenced essential duties and responsibilities as well as assist in directing the work of employees assigned to the department by leading and overseeing their day-to-day activities and work schedules and by providing work-related guidance to the Project Management team in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures. This position has the authority to lead, oversee and direct the day-to-day work of assigned employees and to report work assessments to management, and has the authority to take the following actions: hire an employee, fire an employee, promote, or demote an employee, discipline an employee in a formal manner, reassign an employee, or alter benefits of an employee. All such decisions shall be made by the responsible senior manager(s) in consultation with the Human Resources Department.

Qualifications & Competencies

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years relevant auto finance experience or other lending experience required

Education

• High school diploma and or/GED

Required

• Extensive experience in design, development, implementation of product plans, and full product lifecycle methodologies
• Strong knowledge of Product specialty/job area, principles, concepts, and practices
• Demonstrated experience in creating, prioritizing, and recommending epics and features; and conducting competitive research and analysis
• Ability to write reports, correspondence, test plans, and business requirements
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal?skills
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers
• Advanced skills in MS Office, familiarity with configurable origination systems
• Strong ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Travel 10% - 25% - as required

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, communications, or a related field
• Originations experience and operating within a sprint environment or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience. Agile or SAFe Agile experience
• Jira and Confluence skills a plus

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Sitting for long periods of time, standing, walking, close vision for computer work, speaking, hearing, lift and/or move up to 10 lbs. Reasonable accommodation will be reviewed upon request.

An applicant must be authorized to work in the United States to be eligible for this position. Stellantis Financial Services, Inc. will not sponsor applicants for work visas of any type for this position.

Stellantis Financial Services, Inc (SFS) is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing its employees an environment that is free of harassment, discrimination, and intimidation. It is the policy of SFS to comply with all applicable employment laws and regulations and to provide equal opportunity for all qualified persons and to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, change of sex, and/or transgender status or any protected status. Candidates must possess authorization to work in the United States. This policy applies to recruitment and placement, promotion, training, transfer, retention, rate of pay and all other terms and conditions of employment. Employment and promotion decisions will be based solely on merit, ability, achievement, experience, conduct and other legitimate business reasons.