Color & Trim Design

Job Description

MAIN GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

1. Trend and market research.

• Collect and analyze information about society, product design and product use to anticipate long-term future trends and customer/market needs.
• Analyze competitor products.
• Give impact to client studies on design topics.
• Participate and discuss future trends in workshops with Chinese opinion leaders and international trend experts.

2. Design development.

• Development of complex and innovative design proposals for car studies and series production projects like complete car projects, product improvements and derivatives as well as single car parts. Including exterior, interior, interface and color & trim design. Always under consideration of product strategy, local and global market requirements and technical regulations. 
• Development of design topics based on technical package demands until implementation stage for virtual and physical models is reached.
• Systematic development of distinguishing features in consideration of design and derivative strategy regarding project related offer structure and individualization.
• Prepare storyline and presentation for project milestones. Present and represent design proposal during work in progress to design management and process participants.
• Developments of colors, materials and finishing to be presented at pre-concept FAKOM, concept-FAKOM and FAKOM.

3. Design realization.

• Realization of all the color and trim materials in terms of development with the suppliers, achieve quality and feasibility targets for industrialization.
• Realization for all color and trim elements until SOP and support technical development for Industrialization.
• Examination of complex technical circumstances and goal conflicts. Collaboration with technical engineers to fulfill package requirements and feasibility for series production. Identification of occurring problems, development of solutions and implementation into the design model. This contains aerodynamic and ergonomic topics.

4. Design supervision.

• Create and administrate design specification list as base for all process participants.
• Further development of Design for Strak in collaboration with Design-Feasibility engineers. Design guidance to internal and external Strak engineers.
• Sole responsibility in the implementation process of design specification into Strak and construction data for RFM, DKM, Design Check, concept cars, prototypes and series production. Monitoring data to ensure design quality throughout the entire development process.
• Inform and discuss design content with purchasing and sourcing. Also support these departments during selection and evaluation of suppliers.

5. Collaboration with suppliers.

• Be lead contact person to suppliers project related. Responsibility to brief suppliers on design idea, Audi quality standards and production demands.
• Monitoring suppliers to reach high quality end-product.
• Develop new suppliers in the market for localization and innovations.

6. Internal and external events.

• Preparation of project status and FAKOM presentations for project members and members of board.
• Preparation of media events.
• Representing Audi Design Team in China and globally.

Qualifications

Necessary education

Bachelor in Design or similar.

Personal skills

• Good communication skills, high creativity, quick perception, highly motivated and pro-active working attitude.

Working experience

• 2-4 years working experience in Design (preferably in automotive industry).

Remarks

• Excellent artistic skills;
• Excellent skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign;
• Very good skills in photorealistic renderings (Photoshop + VRED);
• Good skills in Microsoft Office;
• Good skills in English and Chinese;
• German is a plus.

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