Senior Design Producer – Design System Governance

Senior Design Producer – Design System Governance

General Motors’ Human Interface Design organization creates the digital experiences that power our in-vehicle software, mobile apps, and branded web platforms.

As a Senior Design Producer on the Design System Governance team, you will lead socialization of operating models, governance rituals, and production workflows that enable designers and cross‑functional teams to build coherent, scalable experiences across these surfaces. You will own cross‑collaborative programs that connect Foundations, design system owners, and product teams to ensure that components, tokens, iconography, and guidelines are not only created and governed consistently, but are also discoverable, adopted, and measured in practice.

You will partner closely with design, product, engineering, brand, accessibility, and content leaders across vehicle operating system, web, and app teams to align roadmaps, manage dependencies, and ensure system changes land cleanly and predictably in product work. You will actively identify design‑system needs and governance gaps, translate them into clear proposals and work streams, and drive decision‑making that maintains consistency across brands, regions, and platforms.

In this role, you will apply proven producer and design operations practices on complex, multi‑team initiatives, often working with considerable autonomy. You will help mature our governance model, define and refine production practices, and mentor other producers and team members in how to operate effectively within the system.

Lead scalable workflows and governance models that improve predictability, velocity, and quality of design delivery across web, mobile, and in-vehicle experiences, continuously evolving the intake and triage model for design system requests based on signal, data, and partner feedback.

In partnership, own and run design system governance for GM’s web, mobile, and vehicle operating system design systems—including intake, prioritization, decision forums, and release/readout communications—working with senior producers and design leadership to set agendas, drive decisions, and ensure clear outcomes.

Partner with design system owners, Foundations, accessibility, content, and engineering to coordinate component and library releases, track deprecation and migration efforts, and ensure that documentation, guidelines, and patterns support consistent decision‑making and implementation at scale.

Proactively identify design‑system needs and areas of inconsistency across products, brands, and regions; synthesize input from stakeholders, usage data, and product plans into clear problem statements, options, and recommendations for governance and leadership forums.

Drive cross‑collaborative production efforts that span multiple surfaces and teams, including defining milestones, aligning dependencies, managing integrated backlogs, and ensuring that system changes are sequenced and communicated in ways that minimize rework.

Facilitate alignment across design, product, engineering, and brand partners by preparing materials, leading or co‑leading working sessions, capturing outcomes and decisions, and driving follow‑up actions to closure through clear owners, timelines, and status visibility.

Define and maintain checklists, standards, and logistics for quality and release‑readiness activities across design, engineering, accessibility, and content, ensuring that required reviews, sign‑offs, and artifacts are completed before release for Foundations‑and Governance‑owned work.

Build and maintain transparent tracking systems (for example, roadmaps, work boards, risk and decision logs, and intake dashboards) that provide clear views of priorities, capacity, and progress for stakeholders at different levels of the organization.

Identify and surface risks, dependencies, and blockers early; drive structured resolution paths by organizing follow‑ups, clarifying options, framing tradeoffs, and helping teams set realistic expectations grounded in capacity and sequencing.

Shape and champion standardized tools, workflows, and templates that support multi‑brand, multi‑region…