What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automotive Exterior Designer position at Darwin Resources?
Automotive Exterior Designer
San Diego, CA
- We are currently looking for an Automotive Exterior Designer 1. This position will be located in San Diego, CA.
Primary function is the exterior design development of two-dimensional representations of future Nissan and Infiniti products by collaborating with all functions of the design process to create the required deliverables.
Essential Job Functions : (Include but are not limited to)
Responsible for the two-dimensional representation and development of future automotive exterior designs for both Nissan and Infiniti.
Minimum Qualifications : Must include URL with minimum four automotive exterior design projects with future and complex shapes.
Skills Required :
Excellent sketching ability; good visual communication skill; graphic presentation skill; broad range of aesthetic taste; conceptual storytelling; digital modeling and animation skills; good problem-solving skills.
Experience :
Minimum 0 to 3 years of experience in an automotive design studio.
Education :
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Transportation Design or Industrial Design (this is a must and no other degrees will be considered).
Required Skillsets :
Excellent manual drawing ability, exceptional creativity, generation of new, unique and usable design ideas which reflect the brands.
Optional Skillsets :
Movie making in After Effects is a plus - would like to do videos for presentations to senior leadership.
Day to Day - A lot like school given a design brief, will do research about product, market, consumer, narrow down to ideal persona, talk to product planning. Will look at portfolio, see the sketches everywhere; if it's just the beautiful finished model, they don't know where it came from, what are their ideas, how did they come up with it. They will design the full vehicle full exterior for vehicle or concept. Design experience is critical, more than just Photoshop and MS Office. Building simple 3D model in Blender is great. Nissan will also train on new software.
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