Job description
Position Title: Art Director - Automotive HMI - UX/UI
Duration: Permanent
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Job Purpose
- Manage and support multi-disciplinary team to create and deliver strong and engaging digital user interface and interaction, from the design and ideation phases till production release.
- Managed and support the team to create storyboards, user need specifications, personas, use flow scenarios, information architecture, flowcharts, interactive mock-ups, design prototypes, design guidelines and specifications.
- Coach, educate and inspire a world class design team to create fascinating interfaces, graphic assets and detailed screen layouts within ambitious and unique interior environment.
- Strive for maximum creativity and efficiency.
- Manage multiple tasks, monitor project progress and meet deadlines.
- Harmonize business management, production technology and aesthetic specifications, establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
- Bringing consistency of visual language of the Clients' products while considering the specificity of automotive environment and the brand.
- In-still our values, culture and team standards.
Key Accountabilities
Strategy Development and Implementation
- Guarantee best in class perceived quality, uniqueness, performance, HMI and brand strategy compliance.
- Coach the Clients' way of thinking through brainstorming/concept development sessions.
- Evaluate and participate in Product concept and strategy creation.
- Participate in Design and Brand Strategy development and its implementation.
- Play an active role in supporting the Clients' communication and in organizing and moderating workshops and presentations
Project Management
- Manage and implement together with Director, design process, workloads, timing and resources planning.
- Produce and share descriptive and exhaustive feedback report for the design team on their ongoing project.
- Meet with other departments Management on a regular basis to guaranty synergy and common goals. "single team" mind-set
- Attend program and engineering reviews as required and action next steps.
- Keep a weekly updated overview of technical and design issues.
- Build and maintains strong cross departmental partnerships through the creation process with interior advanced design, realization design, CMF, visualization, engineering and external software development teams.
Vendor Selection/Management
- Organise meeting, workshops and brainstorming when necessary.
- Keeping a good understanding and knowhow interaction.
- Record and communicate meeting protocols and respond to specific requirement, guaranty a good project workflow.
- Lead the project with the support of engineering and the multidisciplinary team.
People Management
- Responsible for building design team and establishing open, honest, supportive and understanding design culture in team (talent acquisition, trainings, growth etc.)
- Responsible to allocate Design resources within the projects to one best competence, building team self-confidence.
- Responsible to plan activities for the HMI Design Team (workshop, brainstorming, cultural activities, team building activities)
- Conduct performance reviews for team members
- Taking care of studio environment, physical and interpersonal relations.
- Be a role model, live the values and communicate the design pillars to other departments
Reporting
- Prepare and attend project status overviews.
- Roadmaps to define goals and milestone.
- Create and define hypotheses, KPIs, and their measurements to conclude on the best next steps
- Attend projects presentation to top management and actively participates in their preparation and the presentation itself.
- Report functional status regularly and escalate critical issues to the Design Director as required.
Education:
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Interaction Design, User Experience, product design or related field
Skills & Competencies:
- Excellent professional communication skills spoken & written
- Project-management experience with an UI/UX focus from product creation to market launch.
- Strong knowledge of user experience and interaction design processes and methodology.
- Professional skills with tool like: Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign as well as motion graphic tools like AfterEffects.
- Good proficiency in wire-framing tools to create interactive prototypes and animations (Principle, Invision, Framer, etc.)
- Software development mind-set to be able to communicate smoothly with development (basics in HTML, CSS and JavaScript are a plus)
- Analytical mind-set and organizational skills
- Fluency in spoken and written English
Minimum Experience:
- 10+ years
- EOM experience and/or start-up automotive design studio
- 2 years Lead/management experience or related position