Location: Warren, MI
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: 2+ years
Compensation: TBD
As a Creative Designer at GM, you will be part of a larger, connected, global design team working on forward-thinking, extraordinary elements in production design. We are looking for someone who thrives in a team environment and displays a strong ability to manage multiple tasks and timelines. We need someone with a considerable amount of perception, design taste, judgment and creativity as well as a high level of skill, accuracy, and coordination.
Your role will be to see the future - researching, designing and creating proposals that demonstrate innovative concepts, from inception to implementation, for automotive and mobility applications. Through the lens of brand strategy, you will generate concepts in both 2D and 3D proposals. You will adeptly refine ideas as you receive feedback. You will coordinate the work of other design personnel and collaborate with multiple partners to achieve design goals. You will follow design process from the sketch form to the final release clay model.
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If you are driven and eager to propel your career forward, take your next step in joining a world class design studio at General Motors!
***Please note, you must submit a Portfolio to be considered for this position – See Instructions Below***
In this position, you will:
Create unique interior designs and concepts for production vehicles, advanced or other mobility products through sketches as well as digitally through the use of 2D and 3D technology
Collaborate frequently with the design team, sculpting organization, engineering and fabrication teams in the development of new designs
Take a big-picture perspective on customer needs and future transportation and create provocative concepts and designs
Provide insight and recommendations to leadership while possessing willingness and acuity to act upon guidance in a deadline driven environment
Maintain knowledge of current design trends and technology. Present ideas frequently to management and leadership to communicate design ideas
Exhibit courage and challenge expectations
Additional Job Description
Basic Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Design (Automotive, Transportation, Industrial…)
2+ years of professional experience in a design related field, automotive is strongly desired
Strong understanding of form and excellent drawing skills
Proven creative proficiency
Demonstrated ability with electronic tools to communicate 2-D ideations
High level of analytical ability when faced with complex problems
Ability to work independently and within a team as well as provide mentoring
For your portfolio, please make sure that you have several series of sketches and ideations so that we can see your creativity, problem solving and design thinking.
PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS To be considered for this position, you will need to submit a portfolio in addition to your resume and profile. We strongly recommend linking your online portfolio in the "website" section of the application as we are able to access much larger files that way. If your portfolio is not available online, please follow the instructions below to upload your portfolio as a separate attachment as you did with the resume. Please NO dropbox files or Google docs.
