UI/UX Designer - Enterprise Design

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 Warren GM Global Technical Center three times per week, at minimum.
• This job is eligible for relocation benefits.

About the role:
Within the GM Human Interface Design-Enterprise Studio, 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, Infrastructure, Vehicle Program Planning, and General Staff, to create and deliver vehicles and services throughout the globe.Do you have a passion for creating structure, flow, and visual design for employee user interfaces? Do you have a mind for the big picture and an eye for the smallest of details? Then imagine the impact you can have at General Motors helping employees transform the automotive industry.
Our Enterprise Design team is seeking a talented, passionate and strong visual UI/UX Designer to create employee-facing user interfaces. The ideal candidate with have formal training or degree in visual design as well as experience or training in UI/UX. In this role, you will collaborate with end users, other designers, researchers, software engineers, and stakeholders, to craft highly streamlined, usable, and polished interfaces for our internal customers.
Responsibilities:

• Support the larger Enterprise team with your visual design expertise.
• Support the evolution of the Enterprise Design System
• Create interaction designs and supporting visuals for employee-facing software
• Create design deliverables that communicate your work to leadership, partners, and engineers including sketches, logic and flow, interactive prototypes, wireframes, mockups, and user interface specifications
• Collaborate closely with team members to craft world standard user experiences
• Understand and balance customer needs and wants, technical constraints, design studio expectations, and business objectives to effectively solve challenging design problems
• Work with end users and key partners to identify opportunities to innovate and improve the user experience

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years creating user interfaces and prototypes for web, mobile, and native apps
• BA/BS or training in Visual Design, User-Centered Design, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, or related
• Strong visualization and visual communication skills
• Candidate must provide a strong portfolio showcasing expertise in visual design, UX expertise, interaction, creativity, and depth of thought.
• Experience incorporating user feedback into the design process
• Proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience with design systems
• Ability to collaborate with developers to ensure designs can be implemented
• Ability to give and receive critique, and know how and when to defend decisions
• Understanding of the iterative design process, change management, and Agile methodologies

Additional Description
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in advanced visual design principles and practices
• Expert with digital design tools
• Prototyping experience (Software and/or hardware development experience a plus)
• Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills

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 are a master of your craft. You can generate multiple 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 iterate until the design is great.
• Design Communication Skills - You can communicate broad concepts as well as fine detail through written, graphical, and interactive media.
• Fast Learner - You can learn and understand complex projects, new technologies, and diverse 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 have a bias toward action. 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.

Be part of something amazing and come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. We're a community of designers 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.
Compensation : The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

• The salary range for this role is $143,000 - $219,400 USD Annual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits :

• 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.

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