Senior Manager, Advanced User Experience (Automotive)

Location: Warren, Michigan, United States; onsite with full-time presence required

Company

Automotive company developing in-vehicle, digital, and connected experiences within a software-defined vehicle environment.

What you will do

• Set long-term UX strategy across in-vehicle, mobile app, digital, and connected experiences.
• Establish foundational experience architecture, component logic, interaction principles, and design criteria early in product programs.
• Integrate physical hardware, digital interfaces, and visual interaction layers into cohesive experiences.
• Create reusable experience frameworks, patterns, parts libraries, and behaviors that scale across programs while preserving brand differentiation.
• Translate enterprise design initiatives into UX priorities, standards, operating plans, governance, and execution frameworks.
• Advise senior leadership, own strategic initiatives and KPIs, and develop UX leaders and organizational capability.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading UX, human interface design, product experience, design systems, or digital experience strategy in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience converting strategic direction into operating models, governance, roadmaps, execution frameworks, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong record of leading cross-functional forums, resolving complex tradeoffs, and influencing senior leadership through data and strategic storytelling.
• Experience building and leading teams, including other leaders, in high-ambiguity and high-visibility settings.
• Understanding of software, product, design, engineering, and customer experience ecosystems, including hardware-software integration.
• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, interaction design, UX, product design, human factors, psychology, engineering, or a related field. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship, and candidates must not require sponsorship or immigration support now or in the future.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in a relevant UX, design, human factors, psychology, or engineering discipline.
• Experience with automotive, connected products, software-defined vehicles, or complex physical-digital ecosystems.
• Experience establishing enterprise design systems, governance models, reusable patterns, measurement frameworks, or scalable operating processes.
• Experience influencing roadmaps and design direction across multiple programs, platforms, brands, business units, or regions.
• External recognition or thought leadership in UX strategy, product experience, human-centered design, or design systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits support employee well-being at work and at home.
• Inclusive workplace focused on belonging, equitable employment practices, and meaningful change.
• Role may be eligible for relocation benefits.
• Role-related assessments or pre-employment screening may be required.

Hiring process

• Applicants may complete role-related assessments and pre-employment screening where applicable.