Expert Designer – Exterior

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

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