Position Title: Expert Designer - Exterior
Duration: Permanent
Location: Coventry
We are recruiting for our Coventry based Automotive customer who are looking to add an Expert Designer - Exterior to their permanent team.
Primary Purpose of the Job:
- To support the Creative Exterior Design teams.
Main Responsibilities:
- Participate in all elements exterior design yet fundamentally to lead all development of concept ideas, renderings, tracking the digital models and clay models.
- Good at cross-cultural communication and interpretation and complete the design plan according to the requirements.
- Cooperate and guide the digital and physical model design.
- Use display software’s to complete the analysis of product modelling reports, concept ideas, rendering expressions, etc.
- Have experience in automotive design, with matured hand-drawing foundation and rendering ability, able to quickly capture creative ideas.
- Photo realistic images of your design work.
Principle Contacts/Working Relationships:
- Role will report to Design Chief
- Working with the exterior team, especially with the Principal Exterior Designer
- Role will have deep cooperation with China team
Decision Making Scope:
- Define structure design concept;
- Verification strategy of architecture.
Key Challenges:
- Communicating with Management and Key Stakeholders to get projects progressed through key gateways and senior reviews.
- Interacting with multiple members of the design and engineering teams to produce the best possible designs.
Education, Training and Experience:
- 8 years of experience in automotive styling with key specific input to conceptual design (experience in OEM is preferred, depending on the ability to ease the number of years required);
- Participate in 5 or more exterior styling design mass production projects; experience in creative design of luxury brand exterior/interior is preferred;
- Familiar with exterior surface design and engineering constraints, with a good balance of design and constraints;
- Industrial design and transportation design background from art colleges preferred;
- Programs: Photoshop Illustrator Showcase Adobe Alias Adobe V Red and AI software.
Skills & Personal Characteristics Required:
- 8 years+ of senior level Exterior Design with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive industry. Skilled in Design Management, Alias Studio Tools, Lateral Thinking, and Sketching.
- Strong arts and design professional with a master’s degree focused on Automotive Design.
- Excellent sketch and rendering presentation skills;
- Excellent communication skills, learning ability and teamwork spirit;
- Proficiency in Photoshop, AI , Alias, Vred and other drawing software’s.
- Visionary and forward thinking
- Stay up with date with design trends
- Diplomatic and collaborative
- Resilience