Senior Design Producer – Design System Governance

General Motors

Senior Design Producer governing General Motors’ digital design systems across vehicle, mobile, and web experiences. Driving cross-functional workflows, releases, governance rituals, and adoption.

Posted 8/25/2026full-timeWarren • California, Missouri, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading design operations and governance for digital product delivery across web, mobile, and in-vehicle experiences. Proficient in managing cross-functional initiatives, maintaining tracking systems, and facilitating collaborative design processes.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Digital Product Design OperationsCross-Functional Initiative LeadershipGovernance Session FacilitationAgile Work-Management ToolsDesign System Governance

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Hard Skills

Design OperationsProgram ManagementProject ManagementDigital Experience DeliveryGovernance FrameworksComponent Library ManagementQuality ChecklistsRisk ManagementBacklog ManagementDocumentation Standards

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsMentoringCoachingOrganizational SkillsCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

Collaborative Design LibrariesDigital Whiteboarding ToolsAgile ToolsWork BoardsIntake Dashboards

Industry Keywords

Human-Computer InteractionDesign GovernanceDigital Product DesignUser Experience DesignSoftware Design

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead scalable workflows and governance models for design delivery across web, mobile, and in-vehicle experiences
Own and run design system governance, including intake, prioritization, decision forums, and release communications
Coordinate component and library releases, deprecation and migration efforts, documentation, guidelines, and patterns
Identify design-system needs and inconsistencies across products, brands, and regions
Drive cross-collaborative production efforts by defining milestones, aligning dependencies, managing backlogs, and sequencing system changes
Facilitate alignment across design, product, engineering, and brand partners
Define and maintain quality and release-readiness checklists, standards, and logistics
Build and maintain roadmaps, work boards, risk and decision logs, and intake dashboards
Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers and drive structured resolution paths
Standardize tools, workflows, templates, playbooks, and reference materials for design operations
Co-create and refine governance rituals such as grooming, prioritization forums, and release reviews
Mentor and coach producers and design partners
Partner across vehicle operating system, web, and app teams to ensure coherent, scalable digital experiences

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, information systems, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years of experience in digital product design operations, production, program or project management, or a related role supporting software or experience design teams
Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives across design, product management, engineering, and brand
Experience delivering digital experiences across web, mobile, or in-vehicle interfaces
Ability to organize complex, multi-team work and maintain robust tracking systems
Experience creating clear summaries, plans, and status updates for practitioners and leadership
Experience designing and facilitating governance and working sessions
Familiarity with collaborative design libraries, digital whiteboarding, and agile work-management tools
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to operate with high ownership in a hybrid environment and reliably report to a designated GM location
Must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future
Required to travel less than 25%

Benefits

Comp & perks

Benefits supporting employee well-being at work and home
Access to GM Total Rewards resources
Inclusive workplace and belonging initiatives
Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities