# Principal Automotive Creative Solutions Designer

**Company**: Honda
**Location**: Torrance
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $111,400.00 - $139,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Ticker**: HMC
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9584

**Apply**: https://careers.honda.com/us/en/job/10857/Principal-Automotive-Creative-Solutions-Designer?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- Photoshop
- 2D/3D Sketches/Rendering
- PowerPoint
- Figma
- Blender
- Alias
- Illustrator
- Catia

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