Assignment Description:
In this role, you are responsible for planning and leading the HMI Design team and its deliveries throughout the complete vehicle project timeline. You will be the HMI Design team’s main interfaces to the rest of the organization, both internally and externally.
Throughout the project you demonstrate a good understanding of the brand’s design language, the HMI design strategies, and the product design intent, and how to as well as stakeholder’s expectations, and you keep a holistic view of scope, gates and deliveries.
You will work closely with management and strategists from both HMI design and other design departments to understand the strategic intent and make sure this is planned for and followed in the specific projects. In doing so you have creative freedom to take high-level strategic input into more project and context-suitable input, depending on our product road map, while maintaining a good design process. You will also work closely with other Product owners, supporting and supervising that the strategic intents are planned and prioritized in your and their backlog.
You will work within the HMI Design department. The department consist of a true cross-functional team where inter-disciplinary focus, innovation and drive are highly valued. You will work in close collaboration with the Interior, Exterior, Seats & Component, and CFM Design teams. You will also have close cooperation with Design Brand & Innovation department, Engineering, Marketing and Product planning.
Responsibilities and tasks:
· Main contact person towards project stakeholders (See list
below)
· Plan and execute workshop in Sweden or China according to
project needs.
· Create user stories based on input from stakeholders and
external Product Owners. Define these user stories and plan
all project task.
· Manage project expectations
· Set UX1-UX4 delivery time plan (UX concepts and Visual
design) for an HMI project
· Responsible for project deliveries, and that these deliveries
have the level of quality expected by all stakeholders.
Forexample, HMI and Graphics specifications are possible to
implement, ASPICE compliant etc.
· Provide UX statement to stakeholders in regard to; Change
requests, Product attribute profile, Function implementation
meeting, etc.
· Drive the Way-of-Working with suppliers & test department.
For example, where to deliver specifications, ensure that
there is a Q&A process, Software issue management
· Reporting status and time plan to DPL, VLD and VLE
· Together with Creative Chiefs, make final judgement on
whether UX concept achieves quality and meets expectations
according to the user story.
· Create work packages/task to the development team as well
as handle the weekly backlog towards the
development/design team
· Negotiate ambition level of work packages towards the team
to ensure right quality and content at the right time
· Manage resource balancing between task on a daily basis,
ensuring that productivity and quality is according to
requirements
· Handle stoppers/blockers/decisions that the
developers/designers encounter, to ensure delivery on time
and with the right quality
· Report production capacity of the team towards external
Product owners, Design and Project management as well as
Suppliers
· Manage the weekly scope and progress and report to
stakeholders
· Handle daily communication with project and suppliers
· Handle work-related meetings towards the development
team
· Be an ambassador for UX in various forums both within the
organization and externally to stakeholders and customers
Requirements:
· B.Sc. Interaction design, Industrial or transportation design
or a Master’s degree in any of the previously mentioned
educations. We are looking after the combination of this
disciplines.
· Experience of managing projects and project teams
· Relevant working experience within UX/UI, GUI design and
prototyping
· Ability to drive, motivate and convince.
· Persistency to pursue targets and take decisions
· Communicative with good verbal and visual presentation
skills.
· Independent and confident as well as a good team player
· Structured, methodical, and analytical with good planning
skills. Ability to understand and analyze requirements from
upper management.
· Highly motivated, flexible, and able to work under
constrained time schedules
· Cultural awareness, especially Asian and European culture
· Automotive experience is an advantage.
· English, spoken and written
· Driver’s license
Additional information
· Travels to Asia may be needed, approx. 2-3 trips per year
(when travel becomes possible again)
· Each individual in our team has a high level of responsibility
and mandate and is expected to be able to work
autonomously.