Lead Product Designer

General Motors • Full-time • United States • 3w ago

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 Sunnyvale Technical Center three times per week, at minimum.
This job is eligible for relocation benefits

About the Role:

Within the General Motors Human Interface Design Team, this role focuses on setting strategic design direction across web, mobile, and in-vehicle platforms. You’ll help define and scale a cohesive experience that spans our digital ecosystem.
As a lead designer, you are responsible for providing creative and strategic leadership across key design efforts. You’ll mentor junior designers and help guide them through complex design challenges.
The ideal candidate will have strong conceptual thinking and high-level execution skills. Your portfolio should demonstrate impactful design work across systems and platforms.

Responsibilities:

Top candidates will have an innovative vision for our product experiences.
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:

8+ years of experience creating digital interfaces for web, mobile, or in-vehicle interfaces
Candidate must provide a strong portfolio with work samples showcasing UX expertise, interaction, design, creativity, and depth of thought
Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suites.
Excellent visual, verbal, and written communication skills
Deep understanding of the competitive landscape

Preferred Qualifications:

Design degree preferred
Experience in fleet management

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.

Compensation : The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

The salary range for this role is $177,000 to $270,900 USD Annual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits :

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.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT