Principal Automotive Creative Solutions Designer

At Honda, we're looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams to help us reach our future-focused goals. We're constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. As a Principal Automotive Creative Solutions Designer, you will lead multiple projects, providing strategic direction and oversight across cross-functional design development teams. You will operate independently with a high level of autonomy, driving programs from product planning and early concept development through final production.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project(s) scope and deliverables for Full Model Change and Minor Model Change and guarantee proposed output based on the Department and the direction of the Global Design Director.
• Provide strategic direction across the full project scope ensuring the creative maturation and design excellence of approved strategies and themes at the business level.
• Design and present project materials in a highly professional manner for all required events and evaluations, ensuring stakeholders clearly understand each proposal.
• Lead and guide the development of all 2D/3D and digital assets documentation for evaluations and team presentations, delivering high-quality packages for the Department Lead and Global Creative Director.
• Independently develop strong creative solutions to feasibility challenges, providing clear feedback to HDMA and project teams to realize the approved design theme.

Key Accountabilities:

• Communicate with all PICs, team members and customers (Internal and external) frequently to promote high level timely project output
• Formalize cross-functional alignment on styling schedules and deliverables to ensure seamless, on-time execution of project deliverables

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills:

• Minimum Educational Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in industrial / Transportation / Product Design / or equivalent relevant work experience
• Minimum Experience: At least 8 years of relevant experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Advanced planning, analytical, and presentation capabilities, with strong negotiation acumen.
• Proven experience leading design projects from concept to execution
• Strong leadership, communication, presentation, creative & technical skills.
• Advance level experience in Photoshop, 2D/3D Sketches/Rendering, PowerPoint, Figma, Blender, Alias, and illustrator knowledge required
• Advance Catia knowledge
• High level of understanding of development flow and feasibility.

Workstyle:

• This is an onsite job