Remote OR Hybrid: Reporting where work can/needs to be performed / collaboration should happen. If the person lives w/n 50 miles of such a location, they are expected to come in three times a week. If they do not live within 50 miles of any of those locations, they don’t need to report in.
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This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of role GM Mountain View Technical Center OR GM Warren Technical Center, you are expected to report to that location three times per week, at minimum.
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This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
About the Team:
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, 1st-party apps, services, and branded websites.
About the Role:
Designers are ultimately responsible for providing design and creative leadership focused on delivering a world-class product experience. User Experience and Interface Design is the process of defining how a user would interact with a product or service, making the experience beautiful, intuitive, and accessible.
As a Designer , you would collaborate with other designers, researchers, engineers, and business partners to craft meaningful experiences for our customers through thoughtful design. The ideal candidate will have strong visual design skills, an understanding of user-centered design, and a passion for designing digital products.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with team members to craft world-class user experiences across all products and platforms for vehicle features
- Balance user needs, technical constraints, and business objectives to solve problems effectively
- Create design deliverables to communicate your work including sketches, drawings, mockups, animations, mood boards and storyboards
- Work with product teams and engineers to execute user interface designs as a flawless part of the overall user experience, advocating aesthetics and visual design principles
- Develop production graphics following design guidelines
- Participate in design critiques to guide design decisions
- Balance user needs, technical constraints, and business objectives to solve problems effectively
Key Characteristics:
- Empathy : You are curious about how other people work, live, and think, you will enjoy meeting the users of our products, and thinking about design by visualizing yourself as one who will use it.
- Creativity : You can generate numerous potential solutions to a problem. More importantly, designers can screen out bad ideas and identify good ones. In our design environment, a designer needs the ability to brainstorm without attachment to any particular idea.
- Superb communication skills : You can communicate broad concepts as well as fine detail through written and graphical media. You can convey design solutions through sketches and visualizations, as well as through prose.
- A quick study : You can understand systems and processes, both in software and in the real world. You will be required to digest and understand the many complex factors that govern vehicle design, from social and peer norms to a multinational regulatory environment. You will be able to successfully navigate those factors as you create design solutions.
- Outstanding collaboration skills : You are an effortless collaborator. You welcome ideas from any source, and are prepared to build on them to make the work of your team successful.
- Comfort with ambiguity : You are comfortable working in a space where problems and solutions are not well defined. You can cope with change, shift gears comfortably, and can decide and act without having the total picture.
