Senior Design Manager, ADAS Design

General Motors

Strategic design leader responsible for guiding user experience for GM’s advanced driver assistance systems. Leading a multidisciplinary team in developing safe, intuitive driving features.

Posted 5/17/2026full-timeWarren • California, Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $178,000 - $273,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

UX designUI designinteraction designhuman factorsprototyping toolssystems level thinkingdesign systemssafety critical systemsreal time interactive systemsADAS feature sets

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationteam managementcross functional teamworkquality standardstalent developmentexperience definitiondecision makinggovernance