["Design Specialist (Jr. Transportation Designer)","Design Specialist (Jr. Transportation Designer)"]

Jr. Transportation Designer

The task of the Mobility Design & Concept team is to identify and de-code future market and consumer trends, develop a future mobility vision for the group, create concepts to represent that vision, and visualize it in a compelling and convincing story, both from user perspective and our Group.

Title: The Jr. Transportation Designer

An active contributor to a conceptual project, through strategic research and thinking, needs to help create concepts and illustrate a user story including vehicle/vehicles design. Identify needed existing/future technologies to facilitate and complement the concept. The Jr. Transportation Designer will need to support in creating digital/physical representation.

Education Requirements Required: Bachelor's Degree in Automotive or Industrial Design or equivalent • 0-3 years of experience in automotive design and concept development

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop/create new mobility concepts and product ideas for VW Group globally and within US market based on de-coded research and analysis
• Create visual storyboards of future concepts
• Communicate with concept development and automotive design team
• Support CAD modeling team with data prep, and surface modeling
• Create, collect, develop artistic to realistic material library for use in mobility concepts
• Collaborates with engineers and specialists in other areas (UX, Mechatronics, research, modeling)

General Skills

• Self-motivated, flexible individual with high degree of ownership and accountability for results
• Analytical and conceptual thinking – using logic and reason, creative and strategic
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams in creating creative content
• Communication skills – interpersonal, presentation and written

Software Skills

• Required Software skills: Standard sketching and design tools (such as Photoshop, Illustrator or equivalent, CAD tools (Alias, Blender, etc.)