Product Designer HMI / Automotive Focus: 3D/Motion Design (m/f/x)

Product Designer HMI / Automotive Focus: 3D/Motion Design (m/f/x)

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We are entering a multi-year collaboration with a major vehicle manufacturer to design advanced in-vehicle digital experiences. Our work spans early R&D exploration through to production‑grade design delivery, supporting several parallel development tracks and working closely with internal product and engineering teams.

Your Tasks

• Create high-quality, optimized 3D assets and motion designs for in-vehicle HMI systems, ensuring performance and visual clarity in embedded environments
• Design functional animations and transitions that support user orientation, feedback, and system understanding
• Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers to translate interaction concepts into coherent motion behaviour
• Ensure all motion and 3D work aligns with the design system, brand guidelines, and visual standards
• Prepare and deliver production-ready assets suitable for real-time rendering and engineering handoff
• Contribute to maintaining a consistent and scalable motion language across the overall system

Your profile

• Automotive & HMI Experience (e.g. Android Automotive OS, infotainment, navigation, ADAS, HMI, connected services, mobility or other future mobility services)
• Experience with complex, scaled product development or delivery programmes (ideally Automotive & Mobility experience working with OEM, Tier1 or Agency/Consultancy)
• Understanding of driver context, cognitive load and specific test conditions
• Quality, Safety and Compliance Mindset (Commercial Vehicles HMI ≠ Consumer Apps)
• Strong professional experience in 3D design and motion for digital or real-time systems
• Proven ability to design motion that is functional, purposeful, and usability-driven
• Solid understanding of performance, hardware, and rendering constraints in embedded or real‑time environments
• High proficiency with professional 3D and motion tools (e.g. Cinema 4D, Blender, Maya, After Effects or equivalent)
• Ability to collaborate effectively with UX/UI designers, engineers, and product teams
• Strong sense for visual consistency, timing, easing, and system-wide coherence
• Experience working within design systems and established visual guidelines

Bonus

• Basic familiarity with ISO standards
• Experience with commercial vehicles
• Ability to create iconography or illustration tailored to HMI contexts
• Familiarity with motion design for functional transitions
• Understanding of automotive constraints (legibility, luminance, themes, day/night modes)
• Experience preparing assets for embedded or real‑time rendering systems
• Experience designing for VR/AR

We Offer

• Participation as a central team member of a dynamic design consultancy, self‑determined and independent work with direct connection to our partners, management and colleagues
• The best team in the world :)
• Flat hierarchies and the opportunity to contribute and implement your own ideas
• A lot of personal responsibility, room for creativity and personal development, and thus the chance to grow together with the company
• 30 days paid vacation, hybrid‑work, a dog‑friendly office and meditation to promote work‑life balance
• We balance work with family and private life (with a potential four‑day week if needed)
• Benefits as Urban Sports Club, food club, regular team gatherings
• In‑house coaching and mentoring

We are pleased to meet you!

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications – regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/beliefs, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity.