Job Description: Chief Automotive Interior Designer A position for a true visionary, the Chief Automotive Interior Designer leads the company’s UX department in creating optimized user-centric solutions for the next generation of automobiles—focusing on self-driving cars. Working for a company that has pioneered the self-driving car concept, the Chief Automotive Interior Designer thinks of CAD designs as an extension of her own brain. With UX always at the forefront of the imagination, the Chief Automotive Interior Designer collaborates with other members of the UX team in automotive engineering.

The Chief Automotive Interior Designer understands the revolutionary concept of the self-driving car, particularly in the fact that it liberates space within the vehicle and radically transforms the user experience. Qualified candidates can do 3D and CAD in their sleep, and most importantly, can communicate, collaborate, and lead a team to transform your visions into fruition. Given the multifaceted nature of self-driving car design and technology, the Chief Automotive Interior Designer will work within the intersections of design, product engineering, and marketing. Background experience will be firmly within the OEM automobile manufacturing and design sector. The Chief Automotive Interior Designer drives new product design, allowing the company to convey its values through the cultivation of a unique and unparalleled user experience that sets the brand apart from the competition.

Compensation and Benefits Package

As Gupta & Shaw (2014) point out, the literature on human resources management lacks quantitative analyses of effective employee compensation packages and their importance in stimulating motivation, engagement, and performance. Based on the emerging literature on employee motivation, benefits, and appraisal methods, the following compensation and benefits packages is offered to the successful Chief Automotive Interior Designer candidate.

Pay

Base annual salary starting at $95,000, with potential for growth. The Chief Automotive Interior Designer is not a member of the senior management team but is a leadership role within the organization. The annual salary is considerably higher than the median for automobile designers in general because this is a specialized role with unique creative skills that may reflect on the future of the brand. Moreover, the Chief Automotive Interior Designer is not someone who sits in front of the screen and churns out designs on demand; rather, the individual possesses remarkable and pragmatic communications and leadership skills, and is expected to consult with senior management on a regular basis. The...

Furthermore, the Chief Automotive Interior Designer is someone who creates and maintains a unified message through visual and spatial relations. Because self-driving cars break out of the standard automobile concept, the interior design will start new trends and establish this company as the industry leader. Therefore, the Chief Automotive Interior Designer is someone who is indispensible, whose creative vision is integral to the success of the organization as a whole. The right designer will participate in new product design and therefore ensure the future success of the self-driving car division and of the organization as a whole.
Benefits

The Chief Automotive Interior Designer will receive a full health benefits package. Even as a slew of similar companies are slashing employee benefits, this company believes in health maintenance as a necessity. In fact, the organization has recently partnered with a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), which offers the employee the widest range of options and freedom in health care decisions. The employee has the option to participate in a high deductible health plan in exchange for additional health benefits including extended coverage for complementary medicine. However, the company does provide the Chief Automotive Interior Designer with a full range of extended coverage already including a dental and eye care plan, with a $800 flex spending account that can be used for massage, physical therapy, and other complementary and preventative care options.

Retirement Fund

The organization offers all employees the option to participate in the 401K program, and employees are encouraged to do so.

Equity

What sets this organization apart is the offering of equity to all employees. All employees receive shares in the organization and are strongly encouraged to attend shareholder meetings to make a difference in the future of the organization.

Vacation Time

Employees are entitled to a total of six weeks vacation time per year, taken at no more than three weeks in one fiscal quarter. Vacation time cannot be banked and do not roll over to the following fiscal year, so employees are encouraged to use their vacation time each year. The Chief Automotive Interior Designer may experience ebbs and flows in their work, and are expected to work diligently during peak project design periods and to take their vacations following product releases and at lulls in the production schedule. In addition to the generous vacation time offered, the company also has a robust…