Job Description

Hybrid: Reporting to a specific location where work needs to be performed / collaboration should happen (regardless this location is within a hub) and without regard to where a candidate lives (some employees may end up hybrid who live more than 50 miles away but where business needs dictate them to be onsite at a specific location three days per week).

• This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to GM Austin IT Innovation Center three times per week, at minimum.

• This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

About the Role:

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Within the General Motors Interface Design Team, this role focuses on crafting and delivering the visual, type, material, and symbol design system across our vehicles, applications, and web platforms. This designer will be expected to design GM’s type, icon, brand, symbols, and visual systems including underlying UI component libraries.

Our interface design team is seeking a talented and passionate visual designer to help elevate the quality of our Design System. As a senior designer in our team you are ultimately responsible for providing design and creative leadership focused on delivering a world-class product experiences.

The ideal candidate will have strong conceptual and design execution skills showcasing visual design and design systems in their design portfolio.

Key Characteristics:

• Empathy – You are curious about how people work and think. You enjoy meeting users of interfaces you help design and understanding how and why they use them.
• Creativity – You can generate numerous potential solutions to a problem. More importantly, you can screen out bad ideas and identify good ones, without ego or attachment to any one idea.
• Design Communication Skills – You can communicate broad concepts as well as fine detail through written, graphical, and interactive media.
• Collaboration Skills – You are a natural collaborator, welcoming ideas from any source and able to build on them to make the work of your team successful.
• Comfortable with Ambiguity – You are comfortable working in an environment where problems and solutions are often not well defined. You can handle change, shift gears comfortably, and decide and act without having the total picture defined for you.
• Proactivity – You automatically solve for or know when to escalate foreseen problems before they become unmanageable. You speak up without hesitation or fear.
• A Keen Eye – You’re quick to recognize UI patterns and inconsistencies and understand how to connect the dots.

Additional Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Top candidates will have an innovative vision for our product experiences leveraging typography, color, materials, physics, and user interface principles.

• Experience contributing within a cross-functional design team, ideally inspiring a team of designers dedicated to delivering on a product experience or feature

• Commitment to supporting an evolving studio culture where designers develop in their careers and feel a strong sense of inclusion and belonging.

• Critical for designers to have a deep sensibility and knowledge of user experience design principles, along with an exceptional eye for detail. They will expand on and build out future enhancements to our software experiences and will be involved in individual and group critiques of their work.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience focused on visual design including deep knowledge of typography, color theory, design materials, symbols, and branding.

• Strong portfolio with work samples showcasing expertise in visual design and design systems.Open to feedback; knowing how to give and receive critique, and how and when to defend decisions.

• Open to feedback; knowing how to give and receive critique, and how and when to defend decisions.

• Proficiency in Figma, FigJam, and Adobe Creative Suite

Preferred Qualifications:

• Design degree preferred

Do you want to be part of something amazing and come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. We’re a community of designers and developers who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to design better experiences for customers of an iconic company, then this is the right place for you.

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.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

GMis an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. GM is committed to providing a work environment free from unlawful discrimination and advancing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, all practices and decisions relating to terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment are made without regard to an individual’s protected characteristics. For purposes of this policy, “protected characteristics" include an individual’s actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, weight, height, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at [email protected] or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.​