Senior Creative Interior Designer - Advanced Design California

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidates is expected to report to the Design Center in Pasadena, California on a full-time basis.

The role:

Are you a highly creative designer who is interested in being part of one of the most exciting advanced design studios in the world? GM Design has opportunities for exterior designers who are interested in stretching the boundaries of automotive design at our new, state-of-the-art facility in Pasadena.

As a Creative Designer at GM's Advanced Studio, you will be part of a larger, connected, global design team working on forward-thinking, extraordinary elements in 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 interiors concepts, from inception to implementation, for automotive and mobility applications. You will be an integral part of the team that manages all work defining vehicle architecture and projects for future mobility concepts and strategy for new business opportunities. GM Design helps lead the work to redefine our business and disrupt the market, and the advanced design studio in North Hollywood is central to defining strategy.

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!

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***

What You'll Do:

• Create unique designs and concepts for vehicles and 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

Your Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design (Automotive, Transportation, Industrial, Product, Exterior or Graphic Design or Architecture)
• 7+ years of professional experience in a design related field, automotive is strongly preferre
• 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.
 
1. Save your portfolio as a pdf document 
2. Name your portfolio your LAST NAME, FIRST NAME. Example: Candidate name is John Smith. Portfolio pdf file name is: Smith, John.pdf 
3. Upload as an attachment - you may have to condense the file.  

DISCLAIMER: The Works included in your Career Portfolio must not be subject to any non-disclosure and/or confidentiality agreement. If the Works in your Career Portfolio are