2025 Summer Intern – Strategy & Innovation - Culture Strategist
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.
Work Arrangement:
Remote OR Hybrid: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren, or Milford], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.
The Team:
The Culture team is part of the Strategy & Innovation (S&I) organization at General Motors, strategically aligned with S&I’s mission to catalyze enterprise-wide change. S&I is comprised of Corporate Strategy, Strategic Technology Partnerships, Enterprise Innovation, Culture, and Data & Analytics.
The Culture team is responsible for setting and executing the company’s culture strategy to accelerate our business strategy. The approach is to leverage our best attributes, while addressing the necessary change to drive performance. This team collaborates across the organization – partnering with leaders across all functions and business partners such as Communications, Employee Listening, and Talent Development – to create new initiatives and innovate current systems, tools, and processes for impactful and sustained culture change and transformation.
What You’ll Do:
Research and analysis: evaluate trends and conduct external benchmarking on organizations with highly rated cultures to deliver actionable recommendations for the Culture team.
Project support: assist in designing, implementing and evaluating new programs and strategies that drive cultural change.
Employee engagement: lead events and facilitate workshops with different employee groups – collecting and analyzing feedback to provide insight.
Cross-functional collaboration: coordinate and build relationships with other stakeholders to help implement our culture strategy.
Communication and storytelling: interact with various people and functions to mine purpose-driven or culture related stories to pitch to internal communications.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
Have a direct role in driving a multi-year, multi-pronged, global culture activation plan from the ground up for a workforce of over 155,000 people
Influence company leadership with data and research to inform action taking with our employees and customers in mind
Required Qualifications:
Pursuit of a Master’s degree in one of the following areas: Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, Communication or related fields
Must be graduating between December 2025 - December 2026
Able to work fulltime, 40 hours per week
What will give you a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
Facilitating and curating events for groups upwards of 100 participants
Design Thinking or Human-Centered Design project experience
Prior study or work experience in the following areas: employee engagement, leadership development, employee relations, or related fields
Passion for the company’s culture and transformation
Curious and creative problem solver with a willingness to do things differently
Can turn ideas into action with impact, designed around employee’s needs
Strong organizational skills and can work on multiple projects at a time
Effective communications skills both in correspondence with colleagues around the world and for content creation; a strong writer who can help synthesize and articulate a range of ideas
Collaborator who works well in a team environment and independently
Start dates for this internship role are May & June of 2025.
Compensation:
The salary range for this role is $4,800-6,700, dependent upon class status and degree.
What you’ll get from us (Benefits):
Paid US GM Holidays
GM Family First Vehicle Discount Program
Result-based potential for growth within GM
Intern events to network with company leaders and peers
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Diversity Information
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statements
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