About this role
Mission
The UXE Feature Designer Lead is accountable for the overall feedback, intuitiveness, and usability of user interfaces within vehicle and infotainment systems. Focusing on interaction logic, messaging, auditory signals, and functional grouping, you will drive the robust development of system logic and ensure specifications align with customer functional objectives, electrical engineering specifications, and graphical assets.
In this role, you will design feature interactions and deliver clear, robust specifications to supporting engineering teams and external suppliers, ensuring all feature designs remain coherent across the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) domain. Additionally, you will participate in feature logic validation and collaborate directly with HMI validation teams to verify that final implementations meet all requirements.
Role Summary
Key Responsibilities & Job Duties
Core Specification & Design
Specification Development: Create, maintain, and publish clear, robust HMI specifications and feature logic documents.
Interaction Improvement: Propose innovative interaction solutions to improve overall usability, enhance customer satisfaction, and meet performance targets.
Change Management: Lead change request activities across feature lifecycles and ensure alignment across cross-functional teams.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Meetings
Design Presentations: Present new design proposals, lead reviews on HMI feature issues, and communicate user test results to provide strategic HMI direction.
Benchmarking & Analysis: Present competitive benchmarking data comparing execution against industry-wide automotive usability standards.
Testing & Validation Support:
Partner with the User Testing team to design tests validating new interaction concepts.
Support validation teams during initial and ongoing validation phases.
Assist in logging, tracking, and resolving validation issues.
Support the Performance Lead during vehicle assessments and field evaluations.
Profile
Basic Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive Systems, or a related field.
Experience: 3–5 years of experience in a design role or related domain.
Preferred Qualifications
Education: Master’s degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive Systems, or a related field.
Industry & Technical Experience:
8+ years of relevant experience in user-centered design and requirements engineering.
Strong understanding of electrical engineering systems and full vehicle lifecycle development processes.
Hands-on experience with industry-standard tools (e.g., Adobe XD, Photoshop, Visio, IBM DOORS).
Demonstrated background in benchmarking competitive vehicle designs for usability and ergonomics using both heuristic and objective measurements.
Soft Skills & Execution:
Strong organizational, teamwork, and problem-solving skills with a proven track record of meeting deadlines amidst changing vehicle designs.
Detail-oriented and flexible, with the ability to prioritize tasks and facilitate alignment across global, multi-site teams.
Location
LocationAddress
Auburn Hills, United States
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