Staff Designer, Vehicle OS, Partner Integration

Job Description

Work Arrangement

This role is categorized as hybrid. The successful candidate is expected to report to onsite at the GM Global Technical Center in Warren at least three times per week minimum (Tue Wed Thu).

The Role

The GM Human Interface Design Vehicle Studio is seeking an experienced Staff Designer Partner Integration to lead the integration of Google and Apple partner ecosystems into GMs in-vehicle infotainment this role you will be the primary design point of contact for requirements from Google Automotive Services (GAS) Google Built-In Android Auto and Apple CarPlay translating their evolving UX and certification guidelines into coherent brand-right experiences across GM infotainment systems.

You will collaborate with product managers engineers and partner teams at Google and Apple to interpret clarify and iterate on requirements ensuring GMs infotainment design meets partner expectations while preserving our design vision safety standards and brand identity. The ideal candidate combines deep in-vehicle UI expertise with strong systems thinking and a passion for working at the intersection of design requirements and platform constraints.

What Youll Do

• Serve as the primary design liaison for Google and Apple partner platforms (GAS Google BuiltIn Android Auto Apple CarPlay) for GM infotainment.
• Interpret partner UX specifications certification checklists and design guidelines and translate them into clear actionable design requirements for GM infotainment and gmUI design systems.
• Lead design exploration that balances partner requirements safety & regulatory constraints and GM brand & usability standards documenting tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Create and maintain reference flows pattern libraries and Figma artifacts that capture GM interpretations of partner requirements (e.g. onboarding permissions media navigation projection voice digital key wallet flows).
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to shape requirements early providing design feedback on feasibility UX debt and risk to certification or customer experience.
• Partner with Google and Apple design/UX teams to review proposals clarify intent and iterate on solutions when requirements conflict with vehicle context driver workload or GM experience frameworks.
• Drive and document design responses to requirement changes (e.g. new GAS features Android/AA protocol changes CarPlay updates) including impact assessments and proposed design updates across programs and model years.
• Support certification and validation efforts by providing design specifications redlines and UX rationales for partner audits internal reviews and 3rdparty certification partners.
• Synthesize customer feedback (e.g. JD Power Compass CX research) into design enhancements for partnerdriven experiences and collaborate with product teams on prioritization.
• Participate in and lead design critiques and crossteam reviews representing the partnerintegration perspective and ensuring consistency across clusters center stack and auxiliary displays.
• Mentor designers working on partnerrelated features sharing best practices on reading specs working with external partners and designing within complex requirement ecosystems.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 9 years of experiencedesigning digital interfaces for web mobile or in-vehicle interfaces.
• Formal training or degree in Interface Design Visual Design Interaction Design Human-Computer Interaction or a related discipline.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating endtoend product design including problem framing interaction design visual design and design systems ideally with examples involving platform or partner constraints.
• Proven experience designing for at least one of the following: Android Auto Apple CarPlay Google BuiltIn GAS or other OEMpartnered platform ecosystems.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex requirement documents (UX guidelines certification specs safety/driver workload rules) and translate them into clear production-ready design solutions.
• Proficiency in design tools such asFigmaandAdobe Creative Suite with familiarity in motion and interaction prototyping.
• Proven ownership of complex multi-state systems from concept through production.
• Strong systems thinking - understanding how requirements scale across global patterns design systems and multiprogram rollouts.
• Ability to exercise design restraint balancing aesthetics usability performance and certification constraints.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with cross-functional partners(engineering software safety product human factors brand) to resolve complex design challenges.
• Strongproblem-solving and organizational skills with experience managing multiple programs or variants in parallel.
• Excellentvisual verbal and written communication skills especially when explaining complex behaviors and design rationale.
• Growth mindset with openness to continuous learning feedback and iteration.

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• Direct experience partnering with Google Automotive Services Google Maps Android Auto or Apple CarPlay teams or equivalent large ecosystem partners.
• Prior work on infotainment projection navigation media or digital key / wallet experiences in production vehicles.
• Familiarity with GAS UX requirements Android Auto / CarPlay certification guidelines driver workload and automotive safety standards.
• Experience working inlean or agile product development environments including rapid iteration and validation.
• Strong understanding ofaccessibility legibility and inclusive designin low-attention in-vehicle contexts.
• Proficiency ininteractive prototyping(software and/or hardware).
• Experience mentoring or influencing other designers contributing to design direction beyond immediate project ownership.

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