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Job Description
The Role:
Are you a highly creative design individual who is interested in being part of one of the most exciting design studios in the world? Based in Warren, Michigan, where the fusion of Art, Design and Technology come together, General Motors North America has exciting opportunities for creative designers in many areas of the organization across our Advanced and Production studios including interiors, exteriors, components, accessories, lighting and product.
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. You will create fresh, innovative designs with the customer experience in mind for interiors for GM brands. 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. 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!
What You'll Do
- Create unique interior designs and concepts for production vehicles through 2-D sketches, 3-D sketches, visualize via
- animations [Ai, etc] and collaborate with clay and digital sculpting.
- 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.
Your Skills & Abilities (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.
- 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.
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).
This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis.
The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Benefits Overview
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About
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Our Company (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/working-at-gm/)
Our Culture
How we hire (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/how-we-hire/)
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