Senior CMF Designer

Avaron AB is a growing consultancy focused on technology, finance, and business support. We match your expertise with the market's most interesting assignments, offering a platform where your professional development is central.

We are looking for a Senior CMF Designer to support an organization within the automotive industry undergoing a major transformation driven by electrification, new mobility, and autonomous technologies. In this role, you will help define and deliver a future-facing, sustainable CMF palette aligned with long-term carbon neutrality ambitions. You will work in a highly collaborative, global environment together with cross-functional teams and international stakeholders.

• Create innovative CMF design solutions that meet technical and aesthetic requirements in close collaboration with cross-disciplinary design teams.
• Develop sustainable CMF concepts and translate them into physical prototypes together with suppliers and internal model, trim, and paint teams.
• Design and build patterns in both 2D and 3D for different applications.
• Run benchmarking, research, and material analysis using a fact-based, data-driven approach.
• Prepare, maintain, and release Color, Material, and Finish definition documentation.
• Secure CMF releases in line with design gateways, program timing, and property plans.
• Prepare and present design proposals (physical and digital) in recurring internal reviews and with international stakeholders and project teams.
• Represent the CMF function in project and engineering forums to ensure design intent is maintained throughout development.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners, including an international design studio.
• Maintain continuous dialogue with R&D, Project, and Marketing teams in China.
• Contribute to CMF community workshops, long-term strategy work, and innovation initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, Fine Arts, or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of experience in industrial or transportation design.
• Strong knowledge of CMF methodologies, material development, and automotive design workflows.
• Excellent verbal, visual, and written communication skills, including the ability to present concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and VRED.
• Fluency in English.

• Experience with sustainable materials and/or circular design principles.
• Experience with Blender, Substance, Unreal Engine, Rhino, and/or Grasshopper.
• Mandarin proficiency.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders and teams in China.

Selections are made on an ongoing basis, so we recommend that you apply as soon as possible.