Senior UX Designer
Let’s shape the future together
We’re shaping our business around people. While our cars embrace leading-edge technologies, we never employ technology for its own sake. Quite the opposite. Instead, our focus is on adapting technology to benefit people. This philosophy extends to the sales and customer experience we aim to deliver.Do you want to be a part of creating the exciting solutions of tomorrow’s mobility? Then look no further, join us.
Car UX
Volvo Cars is on an ambitious journey to redefine what it means to own a vehicle during one of most innovative times in the transport industry. Volvo Cars is looking to redefine all aspects of the car eco-system including ownership, autonomous driving, vehicle electrification, sustainability and online shopping.User Experience as a discipline is a key part of Volvo Cars' strategy and our UX organization will help gather insights about our user's and redefine and elevate the users experience of Volvo's products and Services.
We are seeking a senior UX Designer to expand our electrification team, where we aim to support the transition to sustainable personal transportation by making switching to electric vehicles a seamless and delightful experience.
What you'll do:As a senior UX Designer on the Electrification in Car UX, you will work on defining features, products and systems within the infotainment system of the car that help facilitate the transition to electric vehicles to first time users and empower people with the right information visualization and controls.
Your responsibility will be to deliver design artifacts, such as user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that balance design aesthetics with intuitive functionality.
- Collaborate with other designers to ensure a seamless customer experience across Volvo’s digital landscape
- Communicate designs, ideas, and rationale with your team using data and customer insights
- Advocate for the user, you develop a deep understanding of our customer needs and pain-points, serving as an expert for your product team and develop ideas for new and enhanced features
- Developing technically informed and people focused hypotheses and designs on how to humanize the way to present driver centric information to our users
Your bread and butter will be to understand and untangle complex technical functionalities and requirements and structure them in a clear and glanceable way to our users. You have great design skills and a proven experience that demonstrates how you create and build on top of existing design systems.
Who you are:
- Relevant hands-on experience designing for a consumer-focused tech company, so you understand what it takes to create elegant, consumer-oriented experiences.
- You know that appropriate design solutions come not from a brief or a focus group but rather from the deep understanding of our users, their context and the challenges created by technology within that context.
- You are a versatile designer who uses a full range of skills—product design, interaction design, and visual design or prototyping — to ensure you deliver magical experiences to the customer.
- You are a strong collaborator, who can work with not only design partners, but many other stakeholders from engineering to marketing.
- You’re a strong communicator who can inspire teams towards action and empathy for the user.
- You have a people-focused design mentality. Constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback. Whether that’s hands-on user research or a quantitative A/B test.
- You have visual skills to deliver rich concepts and production ready designs that balance design aesthetics with intuitive functionality.
Volvo Cars – driving change together
Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment. Today, we’re one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with around 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations, so you can reach your fullest potential.
And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more on the way. Our fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales.So come and join us in shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play your part in our inspiring and creative teams!