Lead Digital Experience Designer

We\’re recruiting a Lead Digital Experience Designer to join our rapidly growing design team. Reporting to our Digital Experience Design Manager you will be the in‑house expert crafting intuitive, user‑centred, and visually appealing digital products. You will combining technical skills, McLaren design principles, and user research to deliver seamless luxury customer experiences. You will work in a diverse design team within the \’creative strategy\’ specifically, alongside CMF/ Digital Realisation/Graphics and UX design, to build upon our world class design strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Lead digital content, prototypes, and high‑fidelity designs for specific digital products and features across the brand.
• Enforce strict adherence to established design specifications, guidelines, and standards, alongside being a leading influence in taste making and editorial design implementation.
• Conduct and lead comprehensive user research, cascading insights into the team to elevate the user experience.
• Work cross‑functionally on product roadmaps, partnering with software engineers and digital product managers for ultimate collaboration and integration of the digital design strategy onto HMI defined bandwidths.
• Build strong relationships with UI/UX engineers to implement luxury design principles adhering to HMI inputs and feedback, creating the best environment for our customers.
• Communicate clearly and efficiently with design decisions and their rationale to cross‑functional teams and stakeholders.
• Lead the pursuit of analogous industry research across the digital world of Fashion/Product/Architecture etc, feeding this into our automotive world innovatively.
• Experience seeing a vehicle programme at key stages of the digital design process, with ability to use hindsight to guide foresight.
• Deep understanding of luxury materiality design principles, human‑centred design, and design thinking, supported by a strong portfolio with a high level of aesthetic and multiple years of experience proving this.
• Degree in Design related field (or similar) or equivalent work experience in a Digital Design‑related role.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with proven experience working effectively within cross‑functional teams and being an excelling team player.
• Ability to clearly articulate design decisions and the rationale behind them to senior stakeholders.
• Robust problem‑solving abilities, with the capacity to iterate and refine designs based on feedback and testing outcomes.
• Expert in industry‑standard design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite/Figma/future digital systems/tools for enhancement of design work.
• A calm, collected individual that thrives at a fast pace whilst being efficient with their time and workload.
• A digital taste maker with an excellent editorial eye for luxury, across multiple industries.
• Strong resilience to feedback, design direction changes and team support, being agile with time, working location and work travel.
• Flexibility: agile with working across multiple locations whether manufacturing sites, design offices or model workshops. Being clever with remote working parallel to reacting to the needs of the business week by week.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of luxury materiality design principles, human‑centred design, and design thinking, supported by a strong portfolio with a high level of aesthetic and multiple years of experience proving this.
• Degree in Design related field (or similar) or equivalent work experience in a Digital Design‑related role.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with proven experience working effectively within cross‑functional teams and being an excelling team player.
• Ability to clearly articulate design decisions and the rationale behind them to senior stakeholders.
• Robust problem‑solving abilities, with the capacity to iterate and refine designs based on feedback and testing outcomes.
• Expert in industry‑standard design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite/Figma/future digital systems/tools for enhancement of design work.
• A calm, collected individual that thrives at a fast pace whilst being efficient with their time and workload.
• A digital taste maker with an excellent editorial eye for luxury, across multiple industries.
• Strong resilience to feedback, design direction changes and team support, being agile with time, working location and work travel.
• Flexibility: agile with working across multiple locations whether manufacturing sites, design offices or model workshops. Being clever with remote working parallel to reacting to the needs of the business week by week.

Benefits

• 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

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