Role Summary 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.

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.