Do you have a passion for user-centered problem-solving and storytelling? Do you want to create engaging products that solve real problems and create unique emotional experiences? Then imagine what you can do working as part of a multi-disciplinary team tasked with designing our next generation of connected and electric vehicles, while transforming the automotive industry.
Within the General Motors User Experience group, our mission is to Humanize Mobility. Our In-Vehicle, Web, Mobile and Wearable interfaces touch millions of lives across every brand and every vehicle throughout the globe.
Our User Experience team is seeking a passionate and talented Lead Product Designer to create customer-facing User Interfaces for our next generation of Electric Vehicles, across multiple brands and multiple digital platforms.
As a Lead Product Designer, you will collaborate closely with team members, product owners, and key stakeholders to brainstorm and identify opportunities for crafting world-class user experiences for our next generation of electric vehicles, across all products and platforms.
The ideal candidate will have strong user experience and visual design skills, and an inspirational portfolio illustrating extensive experience crafting visually compelling digital products that translate human needs into successful product concepts with a clear passion, understanding, and commitment to user-centered design.
Key Characteristics
Empathy?- You are curious about how people live, work, and think. You enjoy meeting users of products you design and understanding how and why they use your products. ?
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. You can convey design solutions through sketches and visualizations, as well as through prose.?
Fast Learner?- You can learn and understand new technologies, and processes, including software and hardware design and development. ?
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.
Responsibilities
•Provide design leadership through influence, judgment, communication, and collaboration to drive design decisions
•Understand and balance customer needs and wants, technical constraints, and business objectives to effectively solve challenging design problems
•Create design deliverables that communicate your work to other product designers, visual designers and production development teams including sketches, logic and flow, interactive prototypes, wireframes, mockups, user interface specifications, and visual assets
•Analyze and measure your designs through user research and testing to validate your designs, get user feedback, and identify opportunities to improve the customer experience
•Facilitate workshops and collaborative design activities with stakeholders and users
•Contribute to the continued evolution of the team's workflows and processes to further improve quality and performance
PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU DO NOT NEED SPONSORSHIP TO WORK IN THE UNITED STATES NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. WE ARE UNABLE TO CONSIDER CANDIDATES WHO REQUIRE SPONSORSHIP.
Required Qualifications
•5+ years of experience creating digital interfaces for web, mobile, or in-vehicle interfaces
•BA/BS degree or training in HCI, Human Factors, User-Centered Design, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Design, or related
•Compelling portfolio with work samples showcasing expertise in user experience design, visual design, and depth of thought
•Open to feedback; knowing how to give and receive critique, and how and when to defend design decisions
•Strong visual, verbal, and written communication skills
•Proficient in common design tools like Axure, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
•Ability to create meaningful and lasting relationships with team members and stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
•Interests aligned with the Automotive and Technology industries
•Automotive experience a plus, but not required
•Experience incorporating research into the design process, including contextual inquiry, usability testing, heuristic evaluation, etc
•Prototyping experience (software and/or hardware development experience a plus)
Be part of something amazing and come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. We're a community of designers who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more usable and delightful mobility future, then this is the right place for you.