Senior Manager, ADAS Design
Warren, OH - USA
Job Summary
Job Description
Work Arrangement:
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week or other frequency dictated by the business.
The Role
The Senior Manager ADAS Design is a strategic design leader responsible for defining and guiding the end to end user experience for GMs advanced driver assistance and supervised and unsupervised driving features. This role sits at the intersection of human factors interaction and visual design and autonomy technology shaping how drivers perceive understand and trust automated driving systems. You will lead a multidisciplinary design team focused on in vehicle and ecosystem experiences including system status supervision handoff and edge cases. Partnering closely with Product Engineering Safety Legal and Research you will help ensure ADAS experiences are safe intuitive and scalable across vehicle programs. This role has significant impact on GMs safety outcomes brand trust and future autonomy roadmap.
What Youll Do
- Define and lead a holistic ADAS and AV experience vision aligned with GM safety standards brand values and business goals
- Oversee design for key ADAS domains including Super Cruise lane keeping adaptive cruise takeover requests and degraded or failure states
- Establish scalable interaction patterns visual language motion and multimodal cues that clearly communicate system status limitations and intent
- Partner cross functionally with Product Engineering Safety Legal and Research to translate technical constraints into clear experience decisions
- Collaborate with gmUI and HID design system teams to ensure consistency accessibility and reuse across brands and platforms
- Lead and develop a high performing ADAS design team setting quality standards and growing talent
- Represent HID in readiness governance and executive forums to support feature rollout and change management decisions
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Bachelors degree in Human Computer Interaction Human Factors Cognitive Science Interaction Design Industrial Design or a related field or equivalent experience
7 or more years of experience in UX UI interaction design human factors or related disciplines
At least 2 years of people management experience leading design or cross functional teams
Proven experience designing complex safety critical or real time interactive systems such as automotive aviation robotics or similar domains
Strong portfolio demonstrating end to end experience definition systems level thinking and shipped solutions
Experience collaborating closely with product management engineering research and safety or regulatory partners
Hands on experience with prototyping tools and in vehicle evaluation including simulators or test vehicles
Familiarity with ADAS feature sets SAE levels of driving automation and automotive safety or regulatory considerations
Experience contributing to or building design systems spanning hardware software and services
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
Masters degree in Human Computer Interaction Human Factors Cognitive Science Interaction Design Industrial Design or a related field
Direct experience leading design for ADAS or AV features driver monitoring systems or complex in vehicle HMI
Experience working within large global matrixed organizations across multiple vehicle programs or brands ideally in the automotive space.
Strong background partnering with human factors and research teams on behavioral validation and testing
Relocation:
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Sponsorship:
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g. H-1B TN STEM OPT etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position as well as geography of the selected candidate. The base salary range for this role is $178000 - $273000. The actual 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: 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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Senior Manager
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