Exterior Detail Designer

Our automotive client based in Coventry is searching for an Exterior Detail Designer on a permanent basis, 39 hours a week. This is a hybrid role working a minimum of 3 days in the office.

Primary Purpose:

The purpose of this role is to deliver high-quality exterior design with a specialist focus on key detail components, including lighting (lamps), grilles, brightware, and wheels. The Exterior Detail Designer will apply a strong overall understanding of exterior design to develop and refine the elements that define a vehicle’s visual identity and perceived quality.

Main Responsibilities:

• Participate in all elements exterior detail design. Lead all development of exterior detail ideas, renderings, tracking the digital models and clay models.
• Cover detail design such as front and rear lamps, Wheels, Mirrors, external jewellery part’s etc
• 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 products, concept ideas, rendering expressions, etc.
• Have experience in automotive design, with matured hand-drawing foundation and rendering ability, able to quickly capture creative ideas. Understand AI software to be able to create Photo realistic images of your design work.
• Supporting and collaborating with our colleagues China
• Support model Exterior model builds in Uk and China

Principle Contacts / Working Relationships:

• Role will report to EXT Design Principal
• Role will have deep co-operation with China team
• Role will require multiple trips to China

Key Challenges:

• Communicating with Management and Key Stakeholders to get projects progressed through key gateways and senior reviews. Interacting 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 detail design mass production projects; experience in creative design of luxury brand exterior is preferred;
• familiar with component design and engineering constraints, with a good balance of design and constraints;
• excellent sketch and rendering presentation skills;
• excellent communication skills, learning ability and teamwork spirit;
• industrial design and transportation design background from art colleges preferred;
• Proficiency in Photoshop, AI, Alias, Vred and other drawing software’s.

Skills and Personal Specification 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.
• Programs: Photoshop Illustrator Showcase Adobe Alias Adobe V Red and AI software.