Designer - Advanced UX Insight
General Motors
Advanced UX Insights Team Role
GM's Human Interface Design (HID) team is shaping the future of how people interact with our vehicles—through advanced interfaces, immersive visuals, and emotionally resonant experiences. As part of the Advanced UX Insights team, you'll help build a foundation for General Motors customer experiences on the 10-year horizon. You will frame and communicate visions of the future and propose new vehicle experience opportunities for GM through conceptual visualization, prototyping, and 2D/3D design. This team blends future foresight, creativity, strategic thinking, industrial design and digital visualization craft to envision intuitive, inclusive, and future-forward mobility experiences. If you're excited by future thinking, thoughtful collaboration and bringing bold ideas to life, this role offers the opportunity to influence future chapters of GM's design innovation.
What You'll Do:
- Immerse in a collaborative process of learning and discourse, informed by the latest views on societal, technology, economic, policy and sustainability trends.
- Identify and communicate key disruptors that could alter the vehicle transportation business.
- Lead an iterative design problem solving process that considers existing and emerging technologies, then creatively applies them to address current and projected customer needs.
- Create visions for the future that define key customer value propositions, required vehicle attributes, hardware and software features, technical requirements, and customer experience outcomes.
- Envision advanced UX concepts and visual directions that shape future in-vehicle experiences, supported by storyboards, narrative flows, and clear visual storytelling.
- Produce and guide others in the creation of high-quality concept visuals—including 2D illustrations, UI explorations, and simple 3D models or animations that bring future-state interactions to life.
- Deliver finished design assets such as layouts, sketches, motion graphics, and user journeys that are ready for collaboration, customer research or handoff.
- Collaborate and present effectively with cross-functional teams (design, research, engineering, product, suppliers) while bringing forward fresh foresight from UX, mobility, AI, and technology trends to influence future product and service decisions.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
- 2D sketching/rendering, 3D conceptual modeling, animation, and presentation visualization with 5+ years of professional experience in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, UX Design, Human Interface Design, or related fields.
- Strong, thoughtfully curated design portfolio demonstrating: 1) A customer-centric approach to design highlighting original, creative solutions that solve clearly articulated customer needs: 2) Design proposals that consider the full spectrum of user interactions both physical and digital: 3) A range of design, visualization and communication methods utilized to best communicate your concepts across variety of design challenges.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
- Strong proficiency in 2D sketching/rendering in Photoshop.
- High proficiency in Powerpoint for compelling, editable presentations.
- Proficiency of 3D modeling in Alias and Blender.
- Proficiency of visualization and basic animations
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).
This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis. This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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