Company Introduction: An international high-end SEV brand which aims to enable each user to create another self in an intelligent parallel world, becoming “your most emotional intelligent companion”. The company technology focuses on emotional intelligence and stands for casual luxury with forward-looking design and warm technology. Through a holistic approach the brand looks at the big picture and by understanding users’ lifestyle and desires to enable them to pursue what they love.
Major duties and responsibilities:
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• Leads a team comprised of (20 to 30) employees and (50-70) contractors who create digital models which develop vehicle production programs as defined throughout the Global Vehicle Development Process, and advanced projects with focus on creativity and quick ideation.
• Deliver criteria compliant math surface to enable engineering execution.
• Provide leadership to ensure sculpting deliverables meet Design and Engineering’s quality and timing requirements.
• Manage the working relationship with multiple regions and studios to create an overall balanced workplace culture, while optimizing resource allocation across all customers of Global Design.
• Integrates teams: Engineering, Manufacturing, Design and Program while driving execution of GVDP deliverables.
• Ensures a skilled, capable workforce. Leads recruitment and creates hiring strategies and talent attraction. Constructs a retention plan for the organization. Provides career development for all sculptors and identifies individuals with people leader or tech lead potential.
• Sets and develops strategic direction for team technical growth, methods, tools and expectations.
• Ensures digital sculptors are adhering to the PDM, glidepath, Sculpting Scorecard and Global Math Modeling Standards.
• Build strong connections into Global Design Sculpting Organization.
Qualifications:
• Thorough knowledge of Engineering/Design criteria and solutions to achieve a balanced result meeting aesthetic expectations and requirements.
• Thorough knowledge of Design Center specific GVDP processes, deliverables, corporate data management and communication systems.
• Knowledge of current trends in design, technology, production methods and materials.
• Expertise in digital modeling techniques and processes.
• Leadership Skills: Strategic Orientation, Results Orientation, Change Leadership, Collaborating and Influencing, Team Leadership, and People Development.
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity, paradox and risk.
• Ability to provide coordination, advice, collaboration in a non-threatening, tactful way.
• Ability to speak English/Chinese fluently, good communication skills both oral and written.
Requirements：
• Bachelor’s degree for Automotive Design, Industrial Design or etc.,
• 8+ years digital sculpting experience, ideally leading programs.
• 3+ years of experience managing a sculpting team handling multiple programs.
• Good verbal and visual communication skills.
• Proactive and self-motivated, able to work as part of a team in a fast-paced and international environment".
• Able to deliver under tight time constraints.
• Strong sense of responsibility.
