Designer, Craft

Description
Hybrid: 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.

About the Team:
Innovative design ideas are destined to be a catalyst to transform our automotive software and service experiences. The General Motors Interface Design team is dedicated to inventing, designing, and delivering our core software experiences in our vehicles and across our 1st party apps and branded websites.
About the Role:
Within the General Motors Interface Design Team, this role focuses on crafting and delivering the visual, type, material, and symbol design system across our vehicles, applications, and web platforms. This designer will be expected to design GM's type, icon, brand, symbols, and visual systems including underlying UI component libraries.
Our interface design team is seeking a talented and passionate visual designer to help elevate the quality of our Design System. As a senior designer in our team you are ultimately responsible for providing design and creative leadership focused on delivering a world-class product experiences.
The ideal candidate will have strong conceptual and design execution skills showcasing visual design and design systems in their design portfolio.
Key Characteristics:

• 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 - 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.
• 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.

Additional Description
Responsibilities:

• Top candidates will have an innovative vision for our product experiences leveraging typography, color, materials, physics, and user interface principles.
• Experience contributing within a cross-functional design team, ideally inspiring a team of designers dedicated to delivering on a product experience or feature
• Commitment to supporting an evolving studio culture where designers develop in their careers and feel a strong sense of inclusion and belonging.
• Critical for designers to have a deep sensibility and knowledge of user experience design principles, along with an exceptional eye for detail. They will expand on and build out future enhancements to our software experiences and will be involved in individual and group critiques of their work.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience focused on visual design including deep knowledge of typography, color theory, design materials, symbols, and branding.
• Strong portfolio with work samples showcasing expertise in visual design and design systems.Open to feedback; knowing how to give and receive critique, and how and when to defend decisions.
• Open to feedback; knowing how to give and receive critique, and how and when to defend decisions.
• Proficiency in Figma, FigJam, and Adobe Creative Suite

Preferred Qualifications:

• Design degree preferred

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 want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to design better experiences for customers of an iconic company, then this is the right place for you.
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