About this role
What to Expect
The Multi Disciplinary Designer - AI Super User develops distinctive, customer-centred design concepts across automotive interiors and a range of industrial and product design projects. Combining advanced design practice with strong digital and AI visualization skills, the role turns early ideas into compelling stories, visualizations and design proposals that express McLaren’s performance, technology and luxury values.
The role works collaboratively across disciplines, using design thinking, customer understanding and emerging AI tools to accelerate exploration, communicate design intent and support informed creative decisions. It also brings expertise in selecting and using an appropriate AI toolset, crafting effective prompts and guiding AI systems to produce relevant, design-led outputs.
What You'll Do
- Develop concepts for interiors and a varied portfolio of industrial and product design projects.
- Apply advanced design and design-thinking methods to explore opportunities, frame problems and develop purposeful solutions.
- Create customer-centred concepts informed by customer needs, context and desired experience.
- Translate ideas into clear visual narratives using sketches, storyboards, presentations and digital visualizations.
- Lead and contribute to AI-enabled design visualization, using current tools to explore, refine and communicate concepts.
- Select and apply an appropriate AI toolset for each task, using tools efficiently to support the creative process and project objectives.
- Craft effective AI prompts and apply prompt frameworks to direct, refine and iterate AI-generated outputs in line with the design brief.
- Guide AI systems through a considered process of briefing, experimentation, evaluation and refinement, using design judgement to assess and develop results.
- Act as an AI super user within the creative team by sharing effective workflows, supporting adoption and helping colleagues use AI tools in the design process.
- Use AI responsibly and with sound design judgement, treating generated outputs as inputs for creative development rather than substitutes for design expertise.
- Apply UX principles to relevant products, interfaces and experiences, working with appropriate design and technical specialists.
- Communicate design intent clearly to creative colleagues, stakeholders and partners.
- Collaborate across disciplines and support team reviews, workshops and presentations.
- Keep current with developments in AI, visualization, transportation design , industrial design and user experience, identifying relevant opportunities for the team.
What You'll Bring
High standards of creative judgement, taste, craft, attention to detail and luxury sensibilities. A collaborative, adaptable and curious approach, with the ability to contribute positively within a team. Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain concepts clearly to different audiences. Knowledge of design thinking and User Experence principles. Understanding of customer needs and the ability to incorporate customer perspectives into design decisions. Strong storytelling, sketching, storyboarding and presentation skills. A refined understanding of luxury, materials, quality and detail, with the ability to translate these into considered design outcomes. Multidisciplinary design capability and confidence moving between different product categories, scales and stages of design development. Strong digital design and visualization skills, with the ability to select appropriate tools for the task. Experience directing AI systems through structured creative workflows, from interpreting a brief and setting direction to evaluating and developing results. Demonstrated expertise in AI prompt writing, including experience applying prompt frameworks to guide, refine and iterate generated outputs. Experience selecting AI tools suited to different design tasks and using them efficiently to support creative exploration and delivery. Proven ability to use AI tools for design exploration and visualization, with practical experience across current AI platforms, toolsets and workflows. Experience contributing to transportation interior design and advanced design projects. Professional experience i n environmental, fashion, retail, merchandise, art, product and industrial design.
### What We'll Do for You
We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus award
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
- Life assurance benefit
- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- Generous parental leave policies
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
### Who Are We?
No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.
It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.
McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.