Senior Designer

General Motors • Sunnyvale, CA

18h • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Designer within HID Advanced Team, you will shape the future of web and app experiences at GM. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad scope and impact — you will lead complex design initiatives, influence product strategy, and elevate craft quality across multiple domains. You will also lead by example to provide thought leadership and mentorship to other Designers on the team. What You’ll Do Lead end‑to‑end design initiatives that span multiple product surfaces and platforms. Collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, and other design teams to shape the execution of digital experiences. Contribute to and evolve GM’s design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across products. Define and communicate design vision that aligns with GM’s brand story: For every drive. Deliver high‑fidelity interaction, visual, sound or motion designs that raise the bar for usability and delight. Partner with Product Management, and Research teams to shape product direction and execution. Mentor designers across levels and contribute to a culture of inclusion, craft excellence, and fearless collaboration. Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and user‑centered design practices. Present design strategy to cross-functional leadership, executive stakeholders, and align stakeholder groups across multiple internal communities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications, Design, Human Computer Interaction or related field. Alternatively, work experience commensurate with formal education.
• 5+ years of professional design experience in industrial design, user experience, sound design, motion design, or visual design.
• Strong portfolio (available online or privately upon request) that demonstrates strategic thinking for your specific design discipline, showing clear commitment to excellence.
• Expertise in modern design or software tools appropriate for your discipline (e.g., Figma, prototyping tools, Adobe Creative Suite, 3D software, etc.).
• Proven ability to influence product strategy and drive alignment across stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills and previous experience presenting to upper-level audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience as a design thought leader, fostering collaboration, driving creative excellence, mentoring peers, and partnering effectively across cross‑functional teams.
• 5+ years of experience in the automotive industry, design agencies, or technology companies, contributing to hardware and software experiences that shape how people interact with products.
• Hands‑on experience working in lean, agile environments, including sprint planning and iterative design processes.
• Strong understanding of accessibility and inclusive design standards, with a track record of creating experiences that meet or exceed best practices.
• Experience contributing to or advancing the consistency of design systems across products and platforms.
• Proficiency in prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe XD, or equivalent), with additional experience in software and/or hardware development considered a plus.
• Proven ability to present and communicate design vision effectively to executive stakeholders, influencing decision‑making and aligning design strategy with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end design initiatives that span multiple product surfaces and platforms.
• Collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, and other design teams to shape the execution of digital experiences.
• Contribute to and evolve GM’s design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across products.
• Define and communicate design vision that aligns with GM’s brand story: For every drive.
• Deliver high‑fidelity interaction, visual, sound or motion designs that raise the bar for usability and delight.
• Partner with Product Management, and Research teams to shape product direction and execution.
• Mentor designers across levels and contribute to a culture of inclusion, craft excellence, and fearless collaboration.
• Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and user‑centered design practices.
• Present design strategy to cross-functional leadership, executive stakeholders, and align stakeholder groups across multiple internal communities.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees