Senior UX Designer AD/ADAS

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.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What’s in it for you?
Volvo Cars is on an ambitious journey to redefine what it means to own a vehicle during one of most innovative times in the transport industry. Volvo Cars is looking to redefine all aspects of the car eco-system including ownership, autonomous driving, vehicle electrification, sustainability and online shopping. User Experience as a discipline is a key part of Volvo Cars' strategy and a newly formed UX organization will help gather insights about our user's and redefine and elevate the users experience of Volvo's products and Services.

We are seeking UX Designers to expand our Autonomous and Assisted Drive team. The Team consists of other UX designers, Visual designers, and UX Researcher. The team works in close collaboration with developers and other stakeholders.

Main responsibilities include
As a UX Designer on the Car UX team, you will work on defining features, products within the Autonomous and Assisted drive systems of the car. Your responsibility will be to deliver design artifacts, such as user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that balance design aesthetics with intuitive functionality. 

You will collaborate with other designers and ensure a seamless customer experience across Volvo’s digital landscape. And as part of a product team, you will communicate designs, ideas, and rationale with your team using data and customer insights.

As a designer you advocate for the user, you will develop a deep understanding of our customer needs and pain-points, serving as an expert for your product team and develop ideas for new and enhanced features. 

You and your skills
We are looking for you who have been designing for 6 or more years for a consumer-focused tech company, so you understand what it takes to create elegant, consumer-oriented experiences. We think you also have a degree in Interaction design or related field. You are a versatile designer who uses a full range of skills—product design, interaction design, and visual design — to ensure you deliver magical experiences to the customer. It is preferred that you have experience working with interactive 3D scenes including modelling, lighting, shaders and materials, and animation. You have a people-focused design mentality. Constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback. Whether that’s hands-on user research or a quantitative A/B test.

We are an international organization and we would like to see that you have excellent communication skills, as well as good verbal and written presentation skills in English.

On personal level, you are a strong communicator and collaborator, who can work with not only design partners, but many other stakeholders from marketing to engineering. You are individual you who can easily inspire teams towards action and empathy for the user.

Show, don’t tell - applicants must provide a portfolio of work as part of their application.

Location
Volvo Cars Headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden

How to learn more and apply
If you want to learn more about the role itself, please contact hiring manager  Simon Rosenqvist at simon.rosenqvist@volvocars.com. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process contact recruiter Egle Celedinaite at egle.celedinaite@volvocars.com. We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible, but latest 31st of March. Please include your portfolio of work as a PDF or website link in electronic application. We will do ongoing selection of candidates during the application period, so don´t hesitate to submit your application if you´re interested.