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).
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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.
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This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Innovative design ideas are destined to be a catalyst to transform our automotive software and service experiences. The General Motors Interface Design team is dedicated to inventing, designing, and delivering our core software experiences in our vehicles and across our 1st party apps and branded websites.
About the Role:
Within the General Motors Software & Services Design org, our mission is to help GM employees have a better, more productive workday through the use of internal software. Design Kit ultimately enables more than 160,000 GM employees in the areas of Manufacturing, Engineering, Dealer Services, Vehicle Program Planning, and general staff, to create and deliver vehicles throughout the globe.
Do you have a passion for creating design systems, component libraries, and UI Kits? Are you equal parts Designer, Front-End Developer, and People Leader? Do you have bold opinions, strong convictions, and willingness to balance shaking things up with enabling designers and developers to deliver impeccable interfaces? Then imagine the affect you can have at General Motors helping employees transform the automotive industry.
Our Enterprise Design team is seeking a talented and passionate Design System Lead- UI Kit to help elevate the quality of our Design System, Component Library, and UI Kit. As a manager in the Enterprise Design space, you will lead a small but mighty team of front-end developers working alongside a large team of designers, collaborating with teams of full-stack developers and stakeholders to craft highly streamlined, usable, and polished experiences for our internal customers.
The ideal candidate will have strong interaction and front-end development skills, a portfolio of user-centered and design system work, and a passion for user interface.
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.