Motion Systems Group Manager

General Motors•Warren, MI

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Drive the Future of Automotive Experiences, Join Our Human Interface Design Team! Are you passionate about crafting intuitive, beautiful, and human-centered digital experiences across vehicles, web, and mobile platforms? Our Human Interface Design (HID) team is redefining how people interact with automotive technology both inside and outside the vehicle. From in-vehicle displays to connected apps and foundational design systems across software and hardware, we create seamless experiences that feel effortless, engaging, and safe. Work Arrangement: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week or other frequency dictated by the business. What We Do Understand Drivers & Passengers: We dive deep into user research to uncover real needs and behaviors on the road and beyond. Design Across Platforms: From infotainment systems to mobile apps and web portals to hardware switch configurations, we build cohesive digital ecosystems that connect users to their vehicles and services. Build Strong Foundations: We develop scalable design systems and interaction models that ensure consistency, accessibility, and innovation across all touchpoints. Innovate Interactions: We define how users navigate voice controls, advanced driver-assist features, and connected services. Champion Safety & Accessibility: Every design is inclusive, distraction-free, and aligned with global safety standards. Collaborate Across Teams: We work hand-in-hand with engineers, product managers, interior and exterior designers and UX researchers to bring ideas to life. Why Join Us? Impact at Scale: Your designs will shape the driving and digital experience for millions of users worldwide. Creative Freedom: Explore bold ideas and push the boundaries of automotive and digital design. Continuous Growth: Learn from a team of experts and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving mobility and tech landscape. User-First Culture: Every decision starts with empathy for the driver, passenger, and digital user. If you're ready to design the future of mobility we'd love to meet you! The Role Motion Systems Group Manager The Motion Systems Group resides in Vehicle OS under Human Interface Design; this is where GM's UX becomes real inside the digital cabin. Motion is one of the most powerful tools for clarity, emotion, and brand expression in the vehicle experience. The Motion Systems Group defines how the interface behaves; how it transitions, responds, guides, and communicates across every GM brand. This team ensures that movement is not decoration but a system with logic, consistency, and depth. This role shapes how GM's brands feel through motion. The right manager will balance vision and pragmatism, helping establish a kinetic identity that future-proofs GM's digital experience. As the Motion Systems Group Manager, you will lead the team responsible for the full motion language of GM's in-vehicle ecosystem: interface animation, motion principles, timing models, expressive brand behaviors, and scalable kinetic systems. You'll guide the creation of motion guidelines, reusable libraries, and high-fidelity animations, partnering with engineering, UX, Identity, 3D, and Sound to ensure motion is cohesive and technically achievable. This team works best when led by someone who sees motion as a way of thinking. You'll bring structure, critique, and high craft to a discipline that deeply influences usability and brand perception. Culturally, we operate in open, collaborative environments; designers here move fluidly between exploration and refinement and care passionately about detail and meaning. We expect a leader who can coach deeply in craft, articulate the why behind motion decisions, and build systems that empower product teams; not constrain them. This is not a maintenance or marketing role; it's a leadership position shaping how GM's brands express themselves in every interaction a driver sees and feels. The right leader will understand this is a long-term responsibility with a lasting impact on GM's future.

Requirements

10+ years of professional experience in Motion Design and or UX Design
A portfolio of work that showcases your ability to tell stories through your visual craft. You must be able to create in addition to leading the team, lead by example.
Self-starter with strong autonomy. You're comfortable identifying problem areas, tackling them independently, and sharing your findings. You create clarity rather than waiting for it to be provided.
Deep understanding of human interface design best practices. You can iterate quickly, form a clear design point of view, and navigate cross-functional feedback.
You can sell motion, you can craft a narrative, you are highly descriptive to communicate and convey why one motion execution works over another. You are willed to champion a design and can back it up with clear discernible examples, not opinions.
Strong design sensibility, passion for brand, love for cars. You love the process of design but understand the best brand and UX results utilize restraint and balance.
High comfort level with technical complexity. You pick up new terminology quickly and have experience working with engineers, product managers, and other partners to understand requirements and functionality.

Nice To Haves

3+ years of professional experience as a people leader of a team
Examples of global motion executions and how and why they differ
Motion systems, principles and rules established and launched as guidelines
Experience designing content for non-traditional interfaces (e.g., automotive, voice, or wearable devices)

Responsibilities

Build and Curate the Motion Team Scale, onboard, mentor and grow this team into a trusted team of experts instilling repeatable, achievable and successful practices.
Motion Design You live in movement and time, defining the flow, rhythm and choreography of the interface so every brand interface moves with purpose.
UX Motion Strategy Articulate, Craft and own the UX motion strategy side by side with your team.
Motion Design High-quality animation for product, vision, and storytelling use.
Interface Animation + Art Direction Micro-interactions, transitions, gestures, system behaviors.
Motion Guidelines Rules for timing, easing, behavior, and system dynamics.
Motion Principles The conceptual foundation for how motion behaves across GM brands.
Motion Systems Scalable, reusable structures for motion across platforms.
Motion Library Exportable, documented solutions across brand, platform, and feature sets.
Support for Video Creation Motion overlays, animation sequences, transitions, UI kinetic treatments for marketing or leadership storytelling.