Product Owner II - Fleet Solutions

GM Financial; Arlington (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Tuition assistance

GM employee discount

Company holidays

Job summary

GM Financial Fleet Solutions is seeking a Product Owner II to drive backlog, prioritize initiatives, and coordinate across Product Management and Delivery teams. You will influence roadmaps, collaborate with vendors, and focus on delivering customer-centric experiences in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.

Ideal candidates have 2–4 years of PO/PM experience on Agile Scrum teams, strong API/data management skills, and a servant-leader mindset to enable teams and stakeholders to win on key features

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Owner/Manager on an Agile Scrum team (2–4 years)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred
• High School Diploma or equivalent mandatory
• Strong understanding of risk management, vendor coordination and data-driven decision making
• Proficient with XML/JSON APIs, cloud tech, test data management

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize product backlog in collaboration with Product Management.
• Lead backlog prioritization to align experiences across channels.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Communicate product status and roadmaps to leadership and stakeholders.
• Drive innovative, customer-centric solutions leveraging AI and data.

Skills

risk management

vision roadmap

APIs & JSON/XML

Agile/SAFe

matrix collaboration

servant leadership

design thinking

interpersonal communications

problem solving

multi-project mgmt

persuasion skills

presentation skills

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

AI tools

Job description

Why Fleet Solutions at GM Financial?

At GM Financial Fleet Solutions, we're building more than products—we're creating an integrated ecosystem that helps businesses operate smarter, reduce risk, and maximize the value of their fleets. Our mission is to deliver a seamless combination of financing, fleet services, and digital solutions that simplify fleet management while driving long-term customer loyalty and business growth.

Job Description

At GM Financial Fleet Solutions, we're building more than products—we're creating an integrated ecosystem that helps businesses operate smarter, reduce risk, and maximize the value of their fleets. Our mission is to deliver a seamless combination of financing, fleet services, and digital solutions that simplify fleet management while driving long-term customer loyalty and business growth.

Joining Fleet Solutions means becoming part of a team that is transforming how commercial customers manage their vehicles. We work at the intersection of technology, data, finance, and customer experience to solve real-world challenges for businesses across North America. From digital fleet platforms and telematics to financing, maintenance, fuel management, and reporting solutions, we are building connected experiences that help customers reduce total cost of ownership, improve productivity, and manage risk more effectively.

What makes Fleet Solutions unique is the opportunity to build innovative products backed by the strength of GM and GM Financial. Our team is empowered to think strategically, challenge traditional approaches, and deliver solutions that create meaningful value for customers, dealers, and the business. We move quickly, collaborate across disciplines, and focus on delivering outcomes that make it easier for customers to do business with us.

If you're passionate about solving complex problems, leveraging technology to create customer value, and contributing to a fast-growing business within one of the world's most recognized automotive and financial services organizations, Fleet Solutions offers the opportunity to make a visible impact while helping shape the future of commercial fleet management.

Responsibilities

About the role: If you're driven to get results and would like to collaborate within a fast-paced, value focused team, then GM Financial may be the right place for you. As a member of an Agile Scrum team, the Product Owner II - Fleet Solutions is responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team. The Product Owner directs and coordinates the product development and serves as a collaborative liaison between the Product Management and Product Delivery teams by prioritizing and evaluating work. This individual will maintain the product/team backlog, leading backlog prioritization of initiatives, aligning experiences across channels and touchpoints to ensure the best business results.

In This Role You Will

• Act proactively to consistently deliver on commitments with little supervision.
• Analyze and communicate customer requirements to provide innovative solutions and recommend system, product and process enhancements.
• Identify, evaluate and introduce new approaches/technology to use in product development.
• Explore alternative ways to view and solve problems to achieve results beyond what is required.
• Leverage innovation tools, creative processes, and diverse cross-functional experts to generate ideas.
• Focus on constantly improving processes, products, and services and exploring innovative ways to do the job.
• Take advantage of opportunities to try unique ways of doing things and tests promising ideas to find new solutions.
• Ask provocative questions to understand current practices and the customer's experience before moving to problem solving.
• Seek to understand and experience the full array of stakeholders’ (e.g., internal partners, suppliers, customers) behavior, needs, concerns, and desires to unlock new opportunities for innovation.
• Communicate potential benefits of new ideas to stakeholders.
• Influence others by creating a participative, empowered environment to gain acceptance of ideas or plans using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods.
• Take immediate action when confronted with a problem or when made aware of a situation.
• Work collaboratively with the Program/Product Managers to advise on the creation and partners to communicate product road map initiatives to the teams that result in great experiences for our customers.
• Create novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external).
• Partner with vendors and internal departments to ensure tasks are defined and documented with timely deliverables and within SLA.
• Communicate with all levels of leadership, internal business partners and external vendor(s) regarding project status and production performance.
• Ensure clear communication and coordination across business to manage the scope of each product launch for on-time delivery of key features.
• Work with the Agile team to craft high quality customer-centric user stories that exceed customer expectations.
• Responsible for leading the prioritization of the product backlog in partnership with product management.
• Measure product performance using key information, processes and systems to ensure accountability for achieving business results.

Qualifications

What makes you an ideal candidate:

• Working knowledge of risk management, loss control management and coordinating vendor relationships
• Thorough understanding of Vision/Roadmap creation, Portfolio/Program/Team Backlog creation, refinement and prioritization
• Proficient understanding of XML/JSON based APIs, Cloud Technologies, Service Virtualization, Test Data Management, and Data Driven Decision making
• Working knowledge of the Agile/SAFe Lean enterprise concepts and best practices and how they are applied in the workplace
• Experience working within a matrix organization, collaborating with business stakeholders, user experience teams, project managers, product managers, developers and othersAbility to effectively define Product roadmaps and identify requirements
• Able to demonstrate Servant leader management principles and practices
• Ability to deliver best in class product experiences utilizing Design Thinking and Lean methodologies
• Advanced interpersonal, communication (verbal and written), cross-collaboration skills, including the ability to interact with team members at all levels
• Advanced problem solver who can clearly identify, analyze, and resolve issues as they arise
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficient persuasive and negotiation skills
• Proficient presentation skills

Work Experience & Education

• 2-4 years of experience as a Product Owner/Manager on an Agile Scrum team required
• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• Bachelor’s Degree or additional equivalent experience preferred

Licenses and Certifications

• Agile Certification (PSPO or CSP-PO or POPM/APM) required

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

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.

Our Culture

Our team members define and shape our culture - an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work - we thrive.

Compensation

Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.

Work Life Balance

Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office.

NOTE

We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position

This position is not open to agency submissions

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