Design Group Manager - Enterprise Design, Manufacturing

Description
Reporting to a specific location where work needs to be performed / collaboration should happen (regardless this location is within a hub) and without regard to where a candidate lives (some employees may end up hybrid who live more than 50 miles away but where business needs dictate them to be onsite at a specific location three days per week).

• This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to GM Austin IT Innovation Center three times per week, at minimum.
• This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

Within the General Motors Software & Services Design org, our mission is to help GM employees have a better, more productive workday through the use of internal software. Our work ultimately enables more than 160,000 GM employees in the areas of Manufacturing, Engineering, Dealer Services, Vehicle Program Planning, and general staff, to create and deliver vehicles throughout the globe.
Are you a self-directed leader who thrives in a complex environment? Do you have a passion for creating structure, flow, and visuals design for employee user interfaces? Do you love mentoring and guiding the work and careers of a team? Can you just plain get things done? Then imagine the affect you can have at General Motors helping employees transform the automotive industry.
Our Enterprise Design team is seeking a talented and passionate to lead a small team of Designers who create user interfaces in the manufacturing space. In this role, you will collaborate with end users, other designers, researchers, developers, and stakeholders, to craft highly streamlined, usable, efficient, and polished experiences for employees at our GM factories.

• Lead a small team of UX/UI designers
• Understand and balance user needs and wants, technical constraints, design studio expectations and business objectives to effectively solve challenging design problems
• Collaborate closely with peers and stakeholders to craft world standard user experiences
• Create and lead the creation of design deliverables that communicate your team's work to leadership, stakeholders, and developers including sketches, logic and flow, interactive prototypes, wireframes, mockups, and user interface specifications
• Contribute to the continued evolution of the team's workflows and processes to further improve quality and performance
• Ensure the designers continue to grow and build their craft
• Provide mentorship for the team and their careers
• Manage operational tasks that come with leading a team

• Empathy - You are curious about how people work and think. You enjoy meeting users of interfaces you help design and understanding how and why they use them.
• Creativity with a Critical Eye - 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. You're skilled at delivering critical design feedback.
• Design Communication Skills - You can communicate broad concepts as well as fine detail through written, graphical, and interactive media.
• Fast Learner - You can quickly learn and understand new technologies and processes.
• 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 thrive 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.

Additional Description

• Prior experience leading a team or mentoring
• Understanding of the manufacturing space (automotive or otherwise)
• Experience designing employee web and mobile software
• Ability to combine vision with strong creative and tactical planning
• Experience in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work
• Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills
• BA/BS degree or training in User-Centered Design, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, or related

• Track record of expertise in user experience design, visual design, creativity, and design thinking
• Experience incorporating user feedback into the design process
• Proficient of Figma and FigJam

• Ability to give and receive critiques and know how and when to defend decisions
• Understanding of the iterative design process

• Deep knowledge of the automotive manufacturing space
• Android OS and Material Design experience or knowledge
• Graduate degree or post graduate training in User-Centered Design, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Design, or related

Do you want to be part of something amazing and come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. We're a community of designers and developers who are making an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more usable work experience for employees of an iconic company, then this is the right place for you.
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