SENIOR UI DESIGNER - BARCELONA

Hello

Do you love turning visionary concepts into polished, production-ready interfaces? Are you excited about shaping the future of mobility and creating next-generation digital experiences for internationally renowned automotive brands? Join us as a Senior UI Designer in Barcelona with a focus on production excellence.

What will you do?

We are looking for a UI Designer who combines outstanding design craftsmanship with strong communication and collaboration skills. In this role, you will help translate creative concepts into production-ready solutions, guide design delivery, and work closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams to ensure the highest quality standards.

As part of our 75-person international UI Design team, you will bridge the gap between creative vision and technical implementation, ensuring consistency, scalability, and flawless execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with clients and act as a day-to-day design partner.
• Facilitate workshops, presentations, and design reviews, helping align stakeholders and design direction.
• Translate client and business needs into clear design solutions and actionable tasks.
• Coordinate design activities across multidisciplinary teams, including UX, UI, 3D, engineering, and production.
• Lead the production phase of UI projects, from refining concepts to creating high-fidelity layouts and final asset delivery.
• Build, maintain, and scale design systems and component libraries in Figma.
• Prepare and manage development handovers, ensuring design quality and intent are preserved in implementation.
• Establish and maintain production standards, workflows, and quality assurance processes.
• Understand technical constraints of automotive platforms (HMI) and collaborate closely with developers to find smart, production-ready solutions.
• Mentor and support other designers in UI craftsmanship, tools, and best practices.
• Collaborate with international teams across Europe and the Americas.

Who are you?

You have a strong eye for detail, a passion for high-quality digital experiences, and a structured approach to solving complex design challenges. You enjoy working closely with clients, collaborating across disciplines, and turning ideas into scalable, production-ready solutions.

Here’s what we think you need to succeed in this role:

• Degree in Design or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing and delivering digital user interfaces for complex products.
• Strong experience with design systems, component libraries, and developer handovers.
• Must have: Advanced, expert-level software skills in Figma (including variables, auto-layout, and components) and Photoshop.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain design decisions to different audiences.
• Experience facilitating client discussions and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Collaborative mindset, empathy, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Nice to have: Experience with Cinema 4D, After Effects, ProtoPie, and/or Rive.
• Experience in the Automotive Industry (HMI production) is a big plus.
• Location: Barcelona / Martorell.
• Occasional national and international travel.
• Fluency in Spanish and good English skills.

Who are we?

icon incar is the leading design company in the automotive UX space. Our team of more than 100 people is specializing in product-focused solutions within the design and engineering departments of car and truck manufacturers. Our projects span from designing next-generation in-vehicle HMIs to creating show cars and defining entire immersive mobility experiences, integrating light, sound, haptics, and visual content inside and around the vehicle.

What’s in it for you?

We know that our people are our greatest strength, and we are committed to continuously supporting their development - not only with skill trainings and an ongoing leadership development program. Mutual learning and collective success is our guiding principle. Being part of icon incar means joining icon group, which also gives insightful access and exchange with other ventures like banbutsu. With so much diversity in the team and work we do, it’s nearly impossible not to learn something new every day - whatever your role.

It is our aim to support our employees in and out of the office. With flexible working hours, adaptive work from home protocol and sabbatical plans, we give our employees the chance to define their own authentic work-life balance. At regular company events and parties we celebrate and grow stronger as a team and to complete the happiness package, we support Urban Sports, Company Bike, have access to a host of discounts and deals for shopping and services and offer a company pension scheme.

With our centrally located offices in Berlin, Tokyo, Munich, Wiesbaden and Ingolstadt that come equipped with stocked kitchens and lounge areas, we hope you join us in our mission to designing a better future!

About us

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, citizenship, HIV/AIDS status or any other legally protected factor. Applicants for U.S. based positions are generally required to be eligible to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future sponsorship.