Senior Visual Designer - CX Design
General Motors

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Job Description

Our Customer Experience design group is looking for a passionate and exceptional Senior Visual Designer who will help us make beautifully crafted, world-class customer-facing experiences across multiple digital platforms. Our work touches millions of lives across web, mobile, in-vehicle, and wearable interfaces.

As a Sr Visual Designer, you will lead our next-generation user interfaces for GM brands by setting the visual language, designing new components and libraries, coming up with concepts and design artifacts that evolve our brands in unified ways.

Candidates should have experience researching, iterating, concepting, and producing digital user interfaces for mobile apps, web, and beyond. You can develop a unique digital brand character that is harmonious with the overall brand expression across multiple touchpoints throughout the customer journey. You will work on a team of multidisciplinary skills like researchers, product designers, and software engineers to synthesize design and functional needs into our next generation of user interfaces, controls, and experiences.

We're looking for a visionary Senior Visual Designer to help us set strategic design direction and craft products beyond meeting basic expectations to create unique, pure, and emotional experiences. The Senior Visual Designer will play a key role on our customer experience team through concepting, design strategy development, and branded user interface design. With a persistent focus on our customers, you will serve as the driving force behind creating meaningful connections with our customers through thoughtful design that's looks fantastic.

Responsibilities

• Provide design leadership through influence, judgment, communication, and collaboration to drive design decisions across stakeholder groups
  
• Collaborate closely with team members to craft a world-class user experience across all our products and platforms, being the champion of aesthetics and visual design principles
  
• Create design deliverables including sketches, mood boards, storyboards, prototypes, icons, illustrations, animations, and high-fidelity designs
  
• Conduct design critiques to guide design decisions
  
• Contribute to the continued evolution of the team's workflows and processes to further improve quality and performance
  
• Mentor/develop talent and a design thinking culture
  
• Balance user needs, technical constraints, and business objectives to solve problems effectively
  

Additional Job Description

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience creating user interfaces, digital products, or complex software applications across a range of channels
  
• Formal degree or training in Visual Design, Product Design, Interaction Design or related
  
• Strong portfolio with work samples showcasing expertise in user interface design, craft, aesthetics, and depth of thought
  
• Open to feedback, knows how to give and receive criticism, and how and when to defend design decisions
  
• Demonstrated experience in developing dynamic presentations in support of design strategy
  
• Experience working with research teams and applying insights into quick, iterative design improvements.
  
• Strong visual communication skills
  
• Develop/mentor junior talent within the team
  
• Proficient in standard design tools like Sketch, Figma, Zeplin, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Proto.io
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to create across a wide range of digital media (3D, 2D, animation)
  
• Deep understanding of competitive automotive landscape
  
• Ability to identify and apply technology to achieve design goals
  
• Prototyping experience (software and hardware development experience a plus)
  

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities.GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

The policy of General Motors is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. Additionally, General Motors is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us atCareers.Accommodations@GM.com. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

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