Lead Graphic Designer - 36372280 (1036)
Warwick, Warwickshire
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Job Title: Lead Graphic Designer - 36372280
Location: Warwickshire
Position Description
Client Designs and Editions
Location: Warwickshire
Position Description
- Weekly design reviews for project progress assessments with creative teams, line manager, senior manager and / or director(s).
- Weekly 1:1s with manager to run through task list, and assess tasks completed.
- High contribution to meetings through suggestions, problem solving and design representation.
- Excellent creative and presentation skills (including but not limited to photoshop, illustrator and vred) to support visual design communication internal (C&M strategies) and external (launch, retails, customer facing)
- Design creation of product family graphic strategies to successfully deliver into production vehicles.
- High degree of competitors awareness and understanding of product and automotive design combined with good aesthetic judgement
- Ability to do trend research and find adequate imagery for individual projects
- Ability to visually communicate complex strategies in digestible and aesthetic presentation
Client Designs and Editions
- Create highly creative and unique personalisation artworks to a brief or theme in 2d, to be interpreted in vehicle in 2d and 3d.
- Engage and communicate with clients to understand client briefs in full, for graphic interpretation and creation.
- Interpret already defined client designs for feasible manufacture in various technologies e.g. embroidery.
- Understand and interpret a vehicle project or other graphic design project, from conception, to develop a vehicle theme for graphic creation.
- Create artwork templates to define release files to suppliers for part manufacture.
- Liaise closely with SV bespoke materiality designers to execute project design releases timely and in line with project render packs and sampling.
- Engage with personalisation engineers, design quality team and suppliers to sample and improve 2d artworks where necessary, to better physical execution of personalisation items in 3d/ physical. multiple releases are sometimes required, for improvements, due to development process.
- Work with the creative digital team to visualise artworks in vehicle, in digital/ virtual 3d.
- Organise and archive artworks in line with GDPR.
- Program graphic design and strategy
- Lead and become a key contributor to the SV bespoke materiality graphic strategy.
- From individual vehicles to strategic graphical strategies, this includes graphic creation for perforation, embroidery, speaker details, finishers and materiality led branding - from exterior to seat labels.
- Create or further develop a graphic style/ language for SV bespoke materiality presentation material. templates to be created for both digital and physical presentations.
- Creation of visual assets that communicate strategies, from icons to info graphics.
- Support high profile launch planning projects that require senior level visual communication presentations.
- Graphic development plays a big part in creating the best possible relationship between materials and form. prepare supplier direction and briefs, support team members to do so.
- Be a key point of contact for collaborators outside of the materiality organisation, for example brand design and digital design. continue to grow these cross-discipline relationships. Be the benchmark for briefing material.
- Collaborate on creating a visual language for spaces - when required.
- Communication tools - take away's and handouts. develop a library of reference for the team - for digital and physical use.
- Develop and simplify key materiality messages, creating exciting and impactful visual communication
- Share best practice with the team and offer direction as appropriate, delegating for the manager as and when required.
- Act as a source of expertise to others and contribute to discussions in own area.
- Mentor and coach others in graphic design process and methods
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested
- Advanced skill in adobe illustrator.
- High level of creativity and flair.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to relate to and communicate at all levels.
- Capable of working autonomously to meet objectives.
- Passion for graphic design as evidenced by up to date in program/ skill set, innovations and trends.
- Proven ability to plan and undertake projects to a strict deadline.
- Ability to move between projects swiftly with a productive mindset.
- In order to be considered for this position it is advantageous to hold a formal qualification such as degree qualified or equivalent experience preferred
- Proven creative and presentation skills, including advanced use of adobe package software: illustrator, photoshop, indesign software and ability to use internet resources appropriately for research purposes
- A good understanding of product /interior/ exterior design, the design industry in general and automotive design combined with good aesthetic judgement.
- Proven ability to adjust to changing strategies and reflect in the relevant communication media.
- Additional software skills like vred.
- Additional video editing software skills such as final cut pro or adobe after effects.
- Motion graphics experience would be very relevant to build on in this role.
- Design product knowledge, in automotive or another creative field