Automotive Visualization Artist: Render & Livery

Reporting to MSO's Commercial Manager, you will be a key member of the visualisation team, producing digital visualisation stills and real-time assets to support and enhance the customer journey, turning our client's ideas into reality through the provision of bespoke rendering services. You will support the interface between MSO Visualisation and key stakeholders such as MSO Operations and Global Design to ensure delivery of MSO visualisation projects in line with requirements and cross functionally defined SLAs, through positive and productive collaboration. This is a highly creative role, offering an exciting opportunity to directly impact the customer journey and support wider marketing initiatives such as product development.

What You'll Do

• Ensuring all renders are delivered effectively, whilst consistently achieving our departmental SLAs.
• Support remote and face to face customer specification meetings and events, delivering visualisation assets whilst demonstrating exemplary creativity and attention to detail.
• Liaise with the MSO paint team to take Bespoke livery designs from concept to execution, including delivery of accurate vector formats from artwork.
• Create high quality customer facing presentations and PDFs (for use with both external customers and the McLaren senior leadership team).
• Support the Commercial Manager with the management of external agency provision of rendering / visualisation services.
• Working in conjunction with our colleagues in Global Design, support the MSO Product team in the development of new MSO Bespoke livery product offers.
• Support the business planning process, ensuring ongoing capacity and the required skillsets to deliver future visualisation requirements.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in Automotive design, 3D Product Design or similar, with relevant experience (ideally automotive).
• Thorough knowledge of VRED, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Working knowledge of UV mapping, modelling and texturing.
• Familiar in creation of building photo-realistic materials, lighting and production of final imagery.
• Experience with other relevant software desirable such as Unreal Engine 4/5, Blender, Alias, Maya, 3D Studio Max.
• Ability to setup VR projects with interaction and navigation controls a bonus.
• Experience with data conversion starting with basic CAD data.
• Strong graphic design skills and confident with presenting to customers and key stakeholders.
• Ability to accurately tape vehicles to assist paint team.
• Confident developing and maintaining strong working relationships.
• Experience of effectively coordinating several high paced projects simultaneously, sometimes of very different nature, and manage frequent and constructive communication with global intercultural teams based in remote locations.
• Professional and credible ambassador for the McLaren Brand, able to mix confidently with senior dealership personnel, executive management and UHNW customers.
• Exceptionally well organised, highly self-motivated and able to prioritise effectively.
• Initiative - makes things happen with minimum levels of supervision and performs under tight deadlines/budgets.
• Resilient and adaptable - able to maintain consistent, professional, high quality outputs in a fast paced, challenging and dynamic environment.
• Demonstrative passion for automotive design and appreciation of future trends across the wider Design industry.
• Takes customer satisfaction personally and inspires this culture in others.
• Be Flexible: Prepared to travel overseas / work outside standard UK operating hours to support global customer requirements.
• Must possess a willingness and ability to work outside the box and to take on tasks / challenges beyond job description - a team player.

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What We'll Do for You

• We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• Structured career development framework.
• 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days.
• Enhanced company pension scheme.
• Discretionary annual bonus award.
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan.
• Life assurance benefit.
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• Generous parental leave policies.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice.