Senior Visual UX Designer - Car UX

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 a Senior Visual UX Designer to expand our team.

Main responsibilities include: 
As a Visual UX Designer on the Car UX team, you will work on defining features, products and systems within the digital systems of the car. Your responsibility will be to deliver design artifacts, such as production ready designs, assets, animations 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 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. 

Who you are: 
•    You’ve been designing for at least 6 years for a consumer-focused tech company, so you understand what it takes to create elegant, consumer-oriented experiences. You are a versatile designer who uses a full range of skills— visual design, prototyping, motion design and interaction design — to ensure you deliver magical experiences to the customer.
•    You have excellent design skills with tools such as Figma or Adobe XD and Adobe Photoshop as well as excellent prototyping and/or motion design skills using tools like Flinto, After Effects or similar. 
•    You have a strong understanding of building and maintaining design libraries or systems. 
•    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.
•    Since we are working in an international environment you need to have good English skills both spoken and written.
•    Driving license is meritorious

On personal level, we believe that you are a strong collaborator, who can work with not only design partners, but many other stakeholders from marketing to engineering. You have strong communication and presentation skills that allows you discuss and present ideas.

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 manager Arasa Gaspar, Anna at [email protected]. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process contact recruiter Egle Celedinaite at [email protected]. 

We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible, but latest of 18th May. In electronic application please include your portfolio of work as a PDF or website link.

Please note that due to GDPR we do not accept applications via email.