Creative Designer - Industrial Design Brand Id

GM's Creative Design organization is seeking a creative designer for it's Industrial Design Brand ID group who will develop new designs and concepts for transportation-related products, relevant to emblem and nameplate branded design solutions. This role is a balance between being artistic and technical. You will create beautiful designs while ensuring they meet the criteria to make them viable to production. You will work collaboratively and follow the design process from ideation to final release.

If this sounds like your next move, we'd love to hear from you! There has never been a more exciting time to join GM!

Position requires an employee to be on-site on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities:

• Frequent contact with others outside the work group
• Works with studio engineers, modelers, other designers and service and fabrication personnel in the development of new design ideas in both two and three-dimensional form to required finish
• Makes perspective sketches and renderings sufficient to communicate new design ideas
• Understands program timelines and is proactive regarding task completion
• Creates original design ideas
• Assists supervision and other designers in coordinating design activities
• Stays current with design trends across transportation field
• Develops two and three-dimensional mock-ups of proposed design solutions
• Presents new thoughts and designs both orally and visually

Additional

***Please note, you must submit a Portfolio to be considered for this position – See Instructions Below***

Qualifications:

• Ability to create perspective sketches and renderings.
• Strong understanding of form
• Good analytical ability where problems are somewhat complex
• Strong interpersonal skills to work creatively with others
• Demonstrated creative proficiency with supporting portfolio
• Contributes to creative and aesthetic design solutions
• Good drawing and graphic design skills
• Previous design experience with branded design-related focus
• 3D math skills preferred

Education and Training:

• Bachelor degree with a major in graphics design, industrial design, or related field

Portfolio submission instructions

To be considered for this position, you will need to submit a portfolio in addition to your resume and profile. We strongly recommend linking your online portfolio in the "website" section of the application as we are able to access much larger files that way. If your portfolio is not available online, please follow the instructions below to upload your portfolio as a separate attachment as you did with the resume. Please NO dropbox files or Google docs.

Save your portfolio as a pdf document Name your portfolio your LAST NAME, FIRST NAME. Example: Candidate name is John Smith. Portfolio pdf file name is: Smith, John.pdf Upload as an attachment - you may have to condense the file.

DISCLAIMER: The Works included in your Career Portfolio must not be subject to any non-disclosure and/or confidentiality agreement. If the Works in your Career Portfolio are owned by your current or former employer, or by any other Third Party, there must be an express written consent from the Owner allowing the Works to be included in your Career Portfolio for sharing with General Motors (“GM”). By sharing your Career Portfolio, you grant to GM the right to quote, paraphrase, reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use all or any portion of the Career Portfolio for purposes of making a hiring determination. By sharing your Career Portfolio, you also agree to release and discharge GM, and its licensees, successors, and assigns, from any and all claims, demands, or causes of action that you may have regarding any use of the Career Portfolio, including (but not limited to) any claims based on the right to privacy, the right to publicity, copyright, libel, defamation, or any other right.

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