Illumination Designer

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.

What you’ll do​
Vehicle ownership is changing radically – and this process will only gather pace. At Volvo Cars, we intend to redefine every aspect of the car ownership eco-system and user experience is at the heart of this. As an Illumination Designer at Volvo Cars, we expect you to deliver high-quality lighting experiences to the customer, working as part of the Colour, Material and Finish (CMF) Design team and collaboratively with Car UX, Exterior and Interior designers to create holistic experiences. You should also be curious and comfortable with prototyping to sell in your ideas. You will have the unique opportunity of being part of a newly created team of Illumination Designers.​
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What you’ll bring​
We are a human-centric business that recognizes the value in human relations. At Volvo Cars, we never start with technology and try to squeeze people in around it – we always design our cars around people. That’s us. But how about you? We hope you’re a dreamer, a visionary, a free-thinker, a leader and a self-motivator. What’s important is that you share our ideals and enthusiasm for transformation – and that you’re comfortable being you.​
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As Illumination Designer, you will create concepts and craft the lights of the exterior and interior of the car. Together with the Illumination and CMF Design team you will find and explore new ideas on light. You will also influence and inspire the other design areas and create design proposals on light behaviour.  We are looking for someone who is a collaborator, able to work with design partners and other stakeholders from marketing to engineering. You should believe in your ideas and feel comfortable presenting work-in-progress and taking feedback from colleagues. And finally, although we see you as having experience, we need you to be committed to learning more – because this is what is moving us towards our innovative goals.​
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​Main responsibilities
You will help lead the creation and development of illumination concepts in the creative phase, from conceptualising and communicating design ideas to developing for production. You will also work closely with other specialists in the areas of CMF, UX, Interior and Exterior design to integrate lighting concepts seamlessly into product designs. You are someone who is experienced and fascinated with lighting and how it is applied to surfaces to help create, build and maintain design languages that will be implemented across programs. You also have a strategic mindset for Illumination as well as having a strong sustainability perspective. 

Your other tasks will include:
* Define vision and sketch vision ideas. Present vision to the other design areas outside of CMF, including:  UX Vision, Car UX, Sound, Exterior and Interior.  
* Arrange meetings and sync across design platforms and departments.  
* Define light behaviours. Sketch and animate light ideas on design material and apply the use cases.  
* Give design directions to visualisation and illumination designers within the team.  
* Craft the light in CMF strategic bucks.  
* Review/align design to define direction/content with stakeholders.  
* Give design direction to VRED → UNITY.  

Required qualifications
To be successful in this role we believe you have: 
•    Bachelor or master's degree in Transportation Interior Design, Product Design or Industrial Design or similar design discipline 
•    2 - 6 years of experience in Illumination, UX or CMF design 
•    Good understanding how colours and materials influence and support a specific character of a product 
•    Strong technical skills in Adobe Suite, Photoshop and After Effects, Blender, Rhino and Power Point 
Personal qualities On a personal level, we believe that you are a team player who has effective interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills.  We are looking for candidates who have passion, energy and enthusiasm. You are a self-driven individual who can think strategically and has a fast understanding of complexity and ability to deal with different topics and the same time. We would also like to see that you have excellent communication skills, as well as good verbal and written skills in English. 
Want to know more? We hope so​
​We’d love to receive and review your application. If you want more information about the role and its responsibilities or simply learn a bit more about the team, please reach out to the recruiter at Khalil.mahmood@volvocars.com.