Creative Interaction Designer Job at Sumitomo Electric in Warwick

Position Title: Creative Interaction Designer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

Division: Design

Position Description:

• Creative interaction designer required to work on a fast-paced project producing a creative vision for a new automotive HMI system (China market focused).
• Our Client needs someone who can work as part of a small creative team producing concept visualisations (UI) to showcase the digital creative direction for this vehicle concept.
• Our Clients' focus is on defining the creative language and visualising this across a set of key screens and interactions in both static and animated deliverables.
• Our Client will need to provide their partners with Figma source files containing components and layouts that can be used to produce further screens/states/features in the HMI alongside guidelines and animations detailing how things should look/work.
• Our Client is looking for someone who primarily can work in After Effects stitching together 2D assets created in Figma and 3D assets created in Blender to create these animations.
• Ideally this person would have experience in UI/UX/Interaction design and be comfortable working as part of the team to define the concept and interfaces.

Skills Required:

• Proficient in Adobe After Effects both in 2D and 3D Storyboarding - animation flow - create a visual representation of the animations narrative Transitions/ Micro-animations/ compositing.
• Proficient in Figma (2D) for UI design (auto layout components etc).

Experience Required:

• This is not a junior role (mid/senior only - min 3 years agency/client-side experience with related portfolio of work).
• Must be comfortable working to a brief to tight deadlines.
• Strong creative thinking and ideation.
• Exploring multiple ideas evaluating and iterating.

Experience Preferred:

• Desirable to have a knowledge of Blender but not essential.
• Automotive experience is a benefit but not a requirement.
• Ideally, portfolio can demonstrate experience of delivering creative work for product UI/HMI.

How to Apply:

If you're interested in applying for this position, submit your application and one of our recruiters will be in touch.

Applicants MUST have proof of immediate, on-going and valid eligibility to work full time in the UK and travel within the EU.