Staff Designer - Design System

About the role

We’re seeking a highly skilled Designer with 7–10 years of experience and a deep appreciation for crafting, maintaining and evolving design systems across vehicle, mobile and web as part of our cohesive GM Design System strategy. You bring a modernist sensibility grounded in enduring principles—not fleeting trends. Your work is shaped by rigorous systems thinking and a disciplined, grid-based design methodology, applied across both brand and interface design.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for design, details and systematic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with team members to craft world-class design systems for our mobile, vehicle and web products.
• Create patterns, components, design tokens and grid systems that work across multiple scenarios as part of a system.
• Craft systematic solutions to support design system implementation across vehicle, mobile and web.
• Work closely with design and development to bridge the gap.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional experience in design with a focus on design systems.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating mastery of grid systems, typographic hierarchy, and design systems.
• Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and UI tools (e.g., Figma).
• Experience collaborating with UI Design, UX, accessibility, and front-end development teams.
• Deep knowledge of modernist design principles and their application in contemporary brand systems.
• Ability to think systemically and apply that to design systems.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
• Prototyping skills are a plus.