Expert Interior Designer

Job Title: Expert Interior Designer

Our automotive Client based in Saudi Arabia is searching for an Expert Interior Designer, to lead and deliver the realisation of our Client’s interior design, bringing initial strategy concept and vision to production release. Working within an interdisciplinary team, you will coordinate with process partners on your own responsibility and ensure compliance with the requirements for your designs.

This is a full-time position which required full relocation to Saudi Arabia. Our Client will support an overall benefits package which will allow significant relocation and living costs on top of a very competitive salary with favourable tax incentives.

Job Purpose

You will craft breathtaking products, create meaningful experiences, and provide holistic design solutions that are deeply grounded in user needs. You will create interior design concepts and design drafts with future-oriented characteristics in 2D & 3D media from the early phase to production. You will coach, educate, and inspire a world class interior design team to create ambitious and unique interior environment.

Key Responsibilities

• A great sense for human-centric design and being able to transfer the user´s needs into design proposals.
• Strive for best-in-class perceived quality, uniqueness, comfort, performance, and UX, keeping in mind brand strategy compliance.
• Orchestrate the holistic interior experience with your design colleagues to create a convincing, coherent overall design.
• Participate in Design and Brand Strategy development and its implementation.
• Coordinate within the interdisciplinary team compliance with the requirements for your design.
• Benchmark and research competitive analysis.
• Responsible for the design representation of the projects throughout the entire development process from the early phase to market launch.
• Creation of sketches, renderings, visualizations, and the supervision of proportion models, clay models, and virtual models.
• Maintains strong cross-departmental partnerships through the creation process with interior advanced design, CMF, UI/UX, modelling, engineering, and external suppliers’ teams.
• Assist the Department Manager in dealing with and organizing the schedule of the projects in running.
• Assist the manager to give technical support and opinion to the team members.
• Follow meeting protocols and provide material to specific requirement.
• Guarantee a good project workflow and interdisciplinary communication.
• Ensure the timing and coordinate the team members regarding the project activities.
• Assist in coordinating the department and projects-related activities inside the department and with another department.
• Giving opinion to the department manager about team members' performance.
• Assist the manager to handle the daily team /department activities.
• Guide our young talents and tutor Interns.
• Perform tasks assigned by the department manager.
• Prepare and attend project status overviews. Keep an updated overview of all technical issues.
• Attend project presentations to top management and actively participate in their preparation.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Transportation Design or Industrial Design.

Skills & Competencies:

• Expert in car interior concept and production.
• Very good level of understanding of car manufacturing process, ergonomics, and material science.
• Great skills in Adobe Photoshop, Blender and Autodesk Alias, Sub-D, VRED or other VR tools is a plus; MS Office; Adobe Creative Suite.
• Stay current with the latest trends in automotive design as well as consumer product, architecture, art, fashion, and technical innovations.
• Excellent professional communication skills spoken & written, fluency in spoken and written English.
• High level of self-responsibility, creativity, and independence.
• -High level of responsibility, creativity, and independence.
• Great communication skills in both Engineering and Design Leadership, ability to create a presentation telling a compelling story.

Minimum Experience:

• 7+ years.
• EOM experience and/or startup automotive design studio.
• 2 years Lead experience or related position.

Personal Attributes

• Out-of-the-box thinker.
• User-centred mindset.
• Problem solver.
• Inclusive team player.
• Creative, “There is always a solution.” Design vs feasibility vs budget vs management.
• Independent.
• Transparent, with team and management.
• Efficient, make the most of what is available.
• Flexible, embracing changes.
• Intellectual generosity.