Lead Exterior Designer

About the role

General Motors is hiring a Lead Exterior Designer for its Advanced Technical Center in Shanghai, China. This is a full-time on-site position reporting to the center, with a senior designer who works fully independently on new full-size exterior designs for automotive vehicles and other mobility products.

Key responsibilities

• Create new exterior design and component ideas and concepts independently, using traditional sketches and 2D and 3D digital tools.
• Follow the design process from initial sketches through the final release of models, presenting ideas in scale and full size to management and leadership.
• Develop 3D mock-ups of proposed design solutions and work with sculpting and engineering partners to negotiate criteria and communicate design intent.
• Collaborate with the design team, sculpting organization, engineering and fabrication teams on new designs, taking a big-picture view of customer needs and future transportation.
• Provide insight and recommendations to supervisors and leadership, and present ideas frequently to management.
• Maintain knowledge of current design trends and technology, and accept additional responsibilities as needed.

Required profile

• Deep experience and confidence in developing proposals in digital 3D and in physical full-size clay.
• Able to approach projects from a strategic point of view and drive development autonomously.
• Perception, design taste, judgment, creativity, skill and accuracy, with the ability to work in a deadline-driven environment.

Required skills

• Digital 3D design and full-size clay modeling.
• 2D and 3D design tools.

Preferred: experience in production programs.