Job Description

Description

Work Arrangement​​

This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the GM Tech Center in Warren, MI on a full-time basis.

The Role:

General Motors' Creative Design organization is transforming the future of transportation and mobility solutions. We are seeking an Exterior Design Manager for Chevrolet Truck studio. In this role, you will be a leader in a dynamic team using advanced technologies to create next generation designs that will ultimately deliver industry leading vehicles. From concept to production, the design team infuses BOLD creativity with rigorous design builds and tests while laser focused on always aiming for a higher quality standard.

As a Design Managers, you will be on the front lines of seeing through our production programs, leading the aesthetic direction through the integration of customer focused needs and brand differentiation into all design proposals. You will direct, administer, and coordinate the overall activities of a design studio. We are seeking candidates who are highly technically skilled but who also possess the ability to be a positive motivator across the studio.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):

• Lead a team of team of exterior designers on one or more production programs
• Develop two and three-dimensional representations of proposed design solutions
• Work across groups such as Design, Engineering, Program Teams, Sculpting, Fabrication to develop design proposals
• Collaborate and enhance critical relationships with design studio leaders, sculpting, engineering, manufacturing and quality to diplomatically eliminate roadblocks
• Swiftly handle design issues when they arise and propose decisive solutions
• Make presentations of new thoughts and designs
• Direct studio activities in absence of upper management
• Understanding and ability to negotiate criteria with engineers
• Understands program timelines and is proactive regarding task completion
• Understands design sections and provides guidance to program sculptors and engineers to create full size and scale models
• Integrate subsystems required to complete entire full size design proposals
• Train, develop and evaluate and manage design employee performance

Additional Description

Yours Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• This role requires the submission of a portfolio. Please see instructions below.
• Bachelor’s degree with a major in Industrial Design, Automotive Design, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of Automotive Design experience
• 5+ years of Production experience, from concept to final release to build follow up to Launch
• Demonstrated creative proficiency with supporting portfolio
• Ability to create and communicate new ideas
• Excellent understanding of line, form and surface development
• Excellent understanding of manufacturing processes
• Ability to mentor design team members, assess and mange performance in completing assigned tasks
• High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees
• Knowledge of current trends in design, technology, production methods and materials
• Truck Exterior experience preferred

PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

To be considered for this position, you will need to submit a portfolio in addition to your resume and profile. We strongly recommend linking your online portfolio in the "website" section of the application as we are able to access much larger files that way. If your portfolio is not available online, please follow the instructions below to upload your portfolio as a separate attachment as you did with the resume. Please NO dropbox files or Google docs.

1. Save your portfolio as a pdf document 

2. Name your portfolio your LAST NAME, FIRST NAME. Example: Candidate name is John Smith. Portfolio pdf file name is: Smith, John.pdf 

3. Upload as an attachment - you may have to condense the file. 

DISCLAIMER: The Works included in your Career Portfolio must not be subject to any non-disclosure and/or confidentiality agreement. If the Works in your Career Portfolio are owned by your current or former employer, or by any other Third Party, there must be an express written consent from the Owner allowing the Works to be included in your Career Portfolio for sharing with General Motors (“GM”). By sharing your Career Portfolio, you grant to GM the right to quote, paraphrase, reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use all or any portion of the Career Portfolio for purposes of making a hiring determination. By sharing your Career Portfolio, you also agree to release and discharge GM, and its licensees, successors, and assigns, from any and all claims, demands, or causes of action that you may have regarding any use of the Career Portfolio, including (but not limited to) any claims based on the right to privacy, the right to publicity, copyright, libel, defamation, or any other right.

Company vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, though which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

Relocation : This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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