Staff Designer - Design System

General Motors•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re seeking a highly skilled Designer with 7–10 years of experience and a deep appreciation for crafting, maintaining and evolving design systems across vehicle, mobile and web as part of our cohesive GM Design System strategy. You bring a modernist sensibility grounded in enduring principles—not fleeting trends. Your work is shaped by rigorous systems thinking and a disciplined, grid-based design methodology, applied across both brand and interface design. As a staff design system designer, you will collaborate with UI designers, developers and platform teams to craft vehicle, mobile and web components, systems and processes that supports design excellence across multiple platforms. The ideal candidate will have a passion for design, details and systematic thinking.

Requirements

7–10 years of professional experience in design with a focus on design systems.
A strong portfolio demonstrating mastery of grid systems, typographic hierarchy, and design systems.
Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and UI tools (e.g., Figma).
Experience collaborating with UI Design, UX, accessibility, and front-end development teams.
Deep knowledge of modernist design principles and their application in contemporary brand systems.
Ability to think systemically and apply that to design systems
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.

Nice To Haves

Prototyping skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with team members to craft world-class design systems for our mobile, vehicle and web products.
Create patterns, components, design tokens and grid systems that work across multiple scenarios as part of a system
Craft systematic solutions to support design system implementation across vehicle, mobile and web
Work closely with design and development to bridge the gap