Automotive Icon Specialist Gothenburg

Assignment Description

In this role you are responsible for supporting the Interior design team with the right icons in the right placeat the right time.The Automotive Icon and Component Support Specialist plays a crucial role in ensuring the communication of component functionalities are conveyed in an intuitive manner using the correct icons following ISO regulations and other standards. This role involves close collaboration with various stakeholders includingdesigners engineers digital modelers and project leads to facilitate the timely delivery of necessary assets and support materials.

You participate throughout the entire design process from first concept to detailed design although you will be most active after the project has reached theme definition phase.

Key Responsibilities:

Receiving and Processing Requests:

Gather component function lists and switchmaps at project initiation.

Monitor component evolution providing support to Interior designers and syncing with HMI icon library responsible.

Receive requests via project meetings emails chat Jira or selfgenerated from design reviews.

Ensure existing function icons are documented from approved data sources and maintain versioncontrol.

Timely Deliveries:

Deliver assets anywhere from concept stage to final design depending on availability and projectphase.

Distribute deliverables to designers and modellers via project collaboration platforms.

Delivery Format:

Provide assets in PDF format for reference and DXF format for CAD/DSM import.

Fulfill requests for other formats such as SVG/PNG for VR applications.

Include icons and metadata scaled with appropriate lineweight and positioning on CAD designs.

Adapting to Workflow Changes:

Adjust workflow as design operations transition between entities.

Continue support through collaboration folders ensuring smooth handover.

Adapt to changes in transparency and structure particularly in response to trends.

Collaboration with Design and Engineering Teams:

Respond to requests and tasks from the Interior Component team and occasionally from the HMI & UX team on a weekly basis focusing more heavily on later project phases.

Address functions transitioning between digital and physical realms ensuring consistency and visual integrity.

Be the speaking partner to Engineering side in all projects and the one who actively seeks out what parts need icons and what symbol is to be represented in every project.

Legal requirements:

Stay up to date on ISO regulations and other legal demands related to automotive icons.

Requirements

Degree in Graphics design Interaction design human computer interaction or related field.

Proficiency in a graphic design or CAD software particularly Adobe Illustrator.

Proficiency in Figma the industryleading design and prototyping tool

Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira and collaboration platforms like Teams and

SharePoint.

Knowledge about ISO regulations and other legal demands around automotive icons.

Knowledge about different demands on line thicknesses curvature etc for different manufacturing

methods (printing etching molded backlit chromed etc).

Minimum 5 years relevant work experience.

Experience from collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of designers researchers engineers

strategists and product managers throughout the design process.

Please send CV to if this is of interest.