Position: Industrial Design Lead

Reports to: Director of Design 

​Do you have the chops to design experiences for next-gen connected products and services for a major global player in The Future of Mobility? 
Are you a pioneer vs settler and a catalyst vs an agitator?
If the answers are ‘yes’, then this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

About Our Client

Our client is driving people, their businesses, and society forward by taking on their toughest transportation challenges. But while they believe more than ever that mobility drives human progress, the world has progressed, too. People’s lives, technology 

Design-Led Transformation
Our client is in the midst of the biggest change the automotive industry has
ever seen. Just as cars changed the world over the last century—creating the
driver, highways, gas stations and malls—self-driving cars, electric
powertrains, and connected vehicles will radically reshape how we live, work,
and play, our cities and society itself over the next hundred years.
Human-Centered Design
Our client’s HCD organization drives human progress through creativity, empathy
and design. They are at the cutting edge of the company’s most strategically
critical work, designing people’s and society’s needs into the heart of next-gen
products, services, and experiences. Every day, the company’s vehicles and
services support millions of people around the world, and the HCD organization
is designing at scale – not just inventing the future, but operationalizing it,
to help all those people move through their lives, better. Their global labs are
dedicated spaces that push the edge of the company’s near and far strategy.
Their ultimate goal is to design new products, services, and ventures that
customers love and that drive business profitability.

Position Overview

- Know and love your discipline as a passionate
- Subject Matter Expert demonstrating senior-level expertise in the relevant
fundamentals and tools while using them in modern ways and maintaining a desire
to learn from others and grow.
- Be curious, courageous, creative, and capable by asking questions,
experimenting, and sharing ideas to solve problems and create designs that
address real customer needs. 
- Demonstrate leadership throughout the entire design process from inspiration
and research to building prototypes and communicating a vision - bringing to
life integrated digital-physical experiences through brand, products, and
services. 
- Inspire a project team to conceive, design, develop, test, and launch
impactful new products and services, applying systems thinking to experience
design that seamlessly engages people. 
- Identify design opportunities and actionable concepts that align with user and
business needs, design principles, and technical capabilities. 
- Bring clarity and focus through effective communication of functional needs
and aesthetic sensibilities while representing our team in an advanced product
development environment and building relationships and with engineering,
planning, and research stakeholders. 
- Apply systems thinking to physical experience design that seamlessly engages
people through touchpoints along a service journey for consumer and business
applications. 
- Collaborate on designing, making, and testing new solutions through
experiments and prototypes at varying levels of fidelity–from sketches,
renderings, CAD models and animations to functional prototypes and build-ready
assets. 

Profile

- Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design,
- Transportation Design or related field 
- Senior Designer level experience in a consumer product industry,
transportation sector or supplier, design consultancy, or similar field 
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite design tools 
- Proficiency with at least one 3D modeling software application (Alias
AutoStudio, Rhino, or Blender) 
- Proficiency in relevant presentation applications (PowerPoint, Keynote, or
similar) 

Experience

- Exceptional creativity and demonstrated inventiveness towards features and
functional solutions - Exceptional ability to translate customer and research
inputs into relevant, highly desirable, and feasible product solutions -
Exceptional communication skills through presentation and
storytelling Exceptional product design aesthetic sensibilities Exceptional
sketching, visualization, modelling, and presentation skills - Exceptional 2D
application skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) - Exceptional 3D application
skills (Alias AutoStudio, VRED, Rhino, Maya or Blender) 5 years of Industrial
Design or Transportation Design studio work experience - Demonstrated ability
to lead projects in a multidisciplinary team environment - Demonstrated ability
to build low fidelity prototypes (e.g. hands-on with cardboard, foam core, wood,
laser cutting, 3D printing) and understanding of production methods and
prototyping processes. - Demonstrated ability to translate design vision in
animated story-form through creative use of digital presentation applications
- Demonstrated ability to develop design proposals from concept to production -
Experience building inclusive and accessible design solutions

Work Authorization

​Candidates for this position at our client company must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

Our client is an equal opportunity employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.​

About Vee

Our founders and team have deep expertise in branding, innovation, design, I/O psychology, organization design, digital & data product development, enterprise software and application development complemented by current and past experience with clients ranging from emerging Silicon Valley unicorns to established leaders in government and the public and private sectors including BMW, Box, Clorox, HP, Lowe’s, Mastercard, McDonald’s, Microsoft, NASA, Nissan, Pepsico, Procter & Gamble, and Staples, among others. For more information, check out website and blog (Insights section) at https://www.letsvee.com.