Director, Product Delivery, GM Design China
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Job Summary
Job Description
Work Arrangement
This role is categorized as on-site. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Advanced Technical Center in Shanghai China full time.
The Role
The Director of Design Operations is accountable for clay and digital sculpting for advanced and production programs in the Shanghai studio along with the Global Sculpting Solutionsteam serving stakeholders worldwide studio engineering immersive/visualization design technologycapabilities that enable worldclass design execution and all responsibilities within Business Operations of GM China Design Studio.
The director ensures Chinas teams are tightly connected with global partners advocates for work to flow into the region and positions Shanghai as a key hub for innovation in sculpting immersive reviews and design technology. Workswith Asian regional studios to drive efficiency and collaboration.
What Youll Do
- Sculpting Operations Shanghai Studio
- Lead clay and digital sculptingoperations for all Shanghai advanced and production programs ensuring quality speed and alignment with brand and program objectives.
- Global Sculpting Solutions offshore digital sculpting team
- Lead the Global Sculpting Solutionsteam that provides digital sculpting services to studios and programs worldwide.
- Own the intake prioritization and resourcing model for global sculpting work ensuring strong customer satisfaction across regions and working with suppliers with integrity
- Studio Engineering
- Oversee studio engineering teamsin Shanghai ensuring robust support for vehicle properties (mechanical packages armatures bucks show properties and clinic assets).
- Immersive Visualization & Design Technology
- Lead immersive and visualization teamssupporting virtual reviews realtime rendering and digital storytelling for China programs and global partners.
- Global Integration & Advocacy for China
- Act as the primary operations connector between GM Design Chinaand Global Design Operations ensuring alignment on standards roadmaps and metrics.
- Leadership People & Culture
- Build and develop a highperforming team across sculpting studio engineering immersive/visualization and design technology. Foster a culture that values craft innovation and operational disciplineequally supporting creative exploration while delivering reliably to program timing
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelors degree in design Engineering Industrial Design or related field; equivalent relevant experience considered.
- 10 yearsof experience in design operations sculpting leadership studio engineering visualization or related product development roles within a complex matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated leadership of clay and digital sculptingteams delivering on advanced and production programs.
- Experience managing or partnering closely with studio engineeringand visualization/immersiveteams.
- Strong understanding of design technology and ITin a studio context (hardware software pipelines data).
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams manage budgets and capacity and drive continuous improvement.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across cultures and time zones.
- Strategic & Systems Thinking Connects sculpting studio engineering immersive and IT into a coherent futureready operating model.
- Operational Excellence Builds and runs clear processes metrics and governance in a highpace creative environment.
- Collaboration & Influence Aligns diverse global stakeholders and advocates effectively for Chinas contribution.
- Innovation Mindset Embraces and scales new tools and ways of working across physical and digital domains.
- Customer & Brand Focus Keeps design quality brand character and China customer expectations at the center of decisions.
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience in automotive designor closely related mobility / industrial design domains.
- Prior leadership of global or multiregionteams and service models.
- Experience working in or with Chinabasedstudios or joint ventures.
- Proficiency in Mandarin and English(written and spoken).
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day individually and collectively to drive meaningful change through our words our deeds and our culture. Every day we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
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