Job Description

Position Title: Senior Product / Interaction Designer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

About the company

Contechs is recruiting on behalf of our high profile Automotive customer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. They are seeking an Automotive Senior Product/Interaction Designer to be part of their in-house Digital & Interaction team.

Description of the assignment

You will work within the Company's Digital & Interaction team, a cross-functional team where interdisciplinary focus, curiosity and drive are highly valued.

Our Client works in close collaboration with all other design departments shaping the mobility experience of the future.

As a product/interaction designer you will work with physical and digital product designs with a focus on usability and interaction improvements.

Together with the team you will build and innovate on concepts for the current market, but also more visionary approach where we are able to shape the digi-physical experience of the future.

Contribute to the development, evaluation and documentation of novel, multi-modal HMI concepts and information architectures for digital and physical touch points and infotainment.

Specific needs for this role are to be able to sketch and model product designs from both existing ideas and concepts but also innovate new products and services together with the team and build interactive prototypes.

It will be combined with contributive work with digital assets and animations to enable and improve innovative HMI concepts.

You will work cross disciplinary to apply systems thinking to information and experience design that

engages people through physical and digital touchpoints along a user journey for consumer and business applications.

Qualifications and skills required for the role

Detail-oriented with a keen eye for aesthetics and usability in product design.

Ability to create visually appealing and intuitive interfaces and devices.

Good knowledge in creation of detailed UI animations and graphics

Good knowledge of the automotive HMI design process and best-practices

Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of designers, researchers, engineers, strategists and product managers throughout the design process

Diverse portfolio highlighting projects that demonstrate experience in crafting user interfaces, user friendly devices and aesthetically pleasing animations.

Personal attributes

Strong drive, independent and organized as well as a good team player

Excellent communication, presentation & interpersonal skills, able to drive concepts and ideas forward

Persistency to pursue targets and take decisions

Comfortable working in relatively flat and dynamic teams

Passionate to work on ambiguous and complex future challenges

Creative problem solver, structured, methodical, analytical

Cultural awareness, especially Asian and European culture

Additional information

Travels to China may be needed (approx. 1-2 trips per year).

Everyone in our team has a high level of responsibility and mandate and is expected to be able to work autonomously

Fluent in English, spoken and written

Driver's license

IT/SW requirements

Blender

Rhino

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

After effects

Other

The assignment includes travel: ☒ Yes ☐ No

Design Portfolio (PDF format, 10MB maximum file size, please)

Why work through Contechs?

Contechs is a leading Automotive, Design, Engineering, Technology and Innovation Recruitment Consultancy. Founded in 1997, with an inhouse Contractor Care Team to support all external employees, acts as an employment agency for permanent and contract recruitment.

How to Apply

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