Creative Chief Interior Automotive Designer

Pininfarina Spa

Pininfarina is a world leading design house established in 1930 in Turin, Italy, with branches in Munich, Miami and Shanghai.

The history of Pininfarina design is reflected in its lines, beauty and elegance, and in the ability to bring an aesthetic concept to life. Since 1986 Pininfarina expanded its consolidated design expertise outside the automotive sector establishing its own direction and a clear identity in the areas of Architecture and interiors, industrial Design, Graphics & Packaging and Transportation design.

With a view to strengthening our team, we are looking for a:

• Responsible for the activity of assigned designers in terms of time, quality of designs, creative quality and consistency in accordance with the (Vice) Design Direction.
• Participates and contributes to internal and external presentations, ensuring the overall quality and timeliness of the required supports.
• Management of the motivation and engagement of designers assigned to the project.
• Be the operational point of contact for representatives of Virtual Modeling, 3D Area, and Vehicle Architecture.
• Must ensure the creative quality of the virtual model and the physical model, in collaboration with the representatives of the various Functions assigned to the project.
• Must follow stylistic/technical convergence (anomaly sheets).
• Must update the (Vice) Design Direction on its creative progress and report any support deficiencies of the various Functions in advance.
• Collaborates directly with the Design Partnership Manager of the assigned project to organize the activities under his/her charge.
• Must contribute to the continuous renewal and improvement of the creative and representational quality of 2D/3D media to be presented to clients.
• Acts as a reference of creativity and design expertise within the studio and contributes to the research and training of new creative resources.
• Assumes a role of official reference and representation to Design schools and associated events that will be assigned to him/her.

• Qualification: Bachelor/Master Degree in Transportation Design
• Experience: at least 10 years
• Languages: advanced knowledge of English (C1)

• Provide original ideas
• Create photo realistic 2D renders in Photoshop
• Polygonal 3D modeling
• 3D NURBS modeling
• Create renders in Vred, Keyshot or Blender
• Follow the project (CAS, Virtual Lab, ENGINEERING, etc.)
• Follow the project (through prototype or production)
• Follow the project (quality/vision of other designers)
• Be Pininfarina's ambassador to the customer.

Cambiano (TO)

The present announcement is open to all genders, in the sense of the laws 903/77 and 125/91, and to people of all ages and nationalities, in the sense of the legislative decrees 215/03 and 216/03.