Product Designer HMI / Automotive Focus: UI (m/f/x)
Appsfactory GmbH · Stockholm, Sweden
IT Services and IT Consulting · 201-500 employees
About the role
Design intuitive, future-oriented HMI interfaces and visual components for complex in-vehicle displays. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UX designers, engineers, and prototypers to deliver production-ready visual concepts.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires professional experience in automotive HMI design and proficiency in Figma for complex product development. Candidates should possess a strong visual design portfolio and an understanding of automotive safety, context, and technical constraints.
Benefits
Full description
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Your mission
We are entering a multi-year collaboration with a major vehicle manufacturer to design advanced in-vehicle digital experiences. Our work spans early R&D exploration through to production-grade design delivery, supporting several parallel development tracks and working closely with internal product and engineering teams. Description
Your Tasks
- Design intuitive, future-oriented HMI interfaces across multiple (in-vehicle) displays
- Create excellent UI designs for complex (in-vehicle) displays
- Develop components, icons, visual elements and screen layouts aligned with the design system
- Translate UX requirements and interaction flows into clear, production-ready visual concepts
- Collaborate with UX designers, prototypers, motion designers and engineering teams
- Maintain visual consistency across multiple surfaces, resolutions and themes
- Support handover by preparing documentation, specs and visual assets for development
Your profile
- Automotive & HMI Experience (such as Android Automotive OS, infotainment, navigation, ADAS, HMI, connected services, mobility or other future mobility services)
- Experience with complex, scaled product development or delivery programs (ideally Automotive & Mobility experience working with OEM, Tier1 or Agency/Consultancy)
- Understanding of driver context, cognitive load and specific test conditions
- Quality, Safety and Compliance Mindset (Commercial Vehicles HMI ≠ Consumer Apps)
- Strong visual design skills and a portfolio demonstrating complex UI work
- Excellent proficiency in Figma, including components, variants and design systems
- Ability to create clean, scalable visual assets suited for embedded or automotive environments
- Strong understanding of typography, color, layout, contrast and hierarchy
Bonus• Basic familiarity with ISO standards
- Experience with commercial vehicles
- Ability to create iconography or illustration tailored to HMI contexts
- Familiarity with motion design for functional transitions
- Understanding of automotive constraints (legibility, luminance, themes, day/night modes)
- Experience preparing assets for embedded or real-time rendering systems
- Experience designing for VR/AR
Tech Stack
We Offer
- Participation as a central team member of a dynamic design consultancy, self-determined and independent work with direct connection to our partners, management and colleagues
- The best team in the world :)
- Flat hierarchies and the opportunity to contribute and implement your own ideas
- A lot of personal responsibility, room for creativity and personal development, and thus the chance to grow together with the company
- 30 days paid vacation, hybrid-work and meditation to promote work-life balance
- We balance work with family and private life (with a potential four day week if needed)
- Inhouse coaching and mentoring
We are pleased to meet you!
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications – regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/beliefs, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity. quote
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