Freelance HMI Designer

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine; Remote

Contract type: Gig Contract

About the Position

Star Design is seeking exceptional Senior Product Designers with deep automotive HMI experience to join our team. You will be responsible for designing the interface between people and tomorrow’s mobility, creating intuitive, beautiful, and production-ready digital experiences for automotive and mobility platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design the interface between people and tomorrow’s mobility.
• Collaborate with Star on high-impact automotive and mobility programs.
• Work with senior multidisciplinary teams to create mobility experiences.
• Translate complex vehicle systems into simple, useful, and emotionally resonant experiences.
• Shape products from early strategy and concept work through to implementation-ready design.
• Raise the quality of interaction models, visual craft, information architecture, and design systems.
• Support faster delivery with clear prototypes, reusable patterns, design rationale, and engineering-ready specifications.
• Bring driver context, safety considerations, human factors, and technical feasibility into every design decision.
• Use AI thoughtfully to create more adaptive, personal, and natural interactions without increasing cognitive load.

Requirements

• Required:

  • 5+ years of professional experience in Product Design, UX/UI Design, Interaction Design, or Human-Centered Design.
  • Proven experience designing automotive HMI, digital cockpits, infotainment systems, digital instrument clusters, head-up displays, or other embedded user interfaces.
  • Experience designing for automotive, commercial vehicles, mobility platforms, or similarly complex embedded systems.
  • Strong understanding of driver context, safety considerations, distraction reduction principles, human factors, interaction constraints, and production realities.
  • Ability to translate complex vehicle data, controls, and services into clear information architecture, interaction flows, and UI systems.
  • Portfolio with 2-3 relevant case studies showing HMI depth, product thinking, end-to-end process, systems thinking, and excellent visual execution.
  • High level of visual design craft, including typography, hierarchy, color, layout, motion thinking, and interaction detail.
  • Expert proficiency in Figma and modern collaborative design workflows.
  • Experience creating scalable component libraries, reusable UI patterns, and design systems.
  • Ability to produce implementation-ready specifications and collaborate closely with engineering teams during build and validation.
  • Curiosity about AI and emerging technologies, with the ability to design adaptive, natural, and personalized experiences.
  • Comfortable working independently while integrating smoothly into senior multidisciplinary, international teams.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Nice to have:

  • Experience working with leading automotive OEMs, commercial vehicle manufacturers, mobility providers, or Tier 1 suppliers.
  • Experience designing production software for Android Automotive OS, QNX, embedded Linux, or similar in-vehicle platforms.
  • Experience designing for software-defined vehicles, connected mobility ecosystems, EV charging, fleet operations, or in-car commerce.
  • Experience creating advanced interactive prototypes using ProtoPie, Framer, Unity, Unreal, or similar tools.
  • Experience designing AI-powered products, voice interfaces, conversational experiences, in-car assistants, or LLM-enabled user experiences.
  • Experience applying AI throughout the design process, including ideation, research synthesis, prototyping, UI generation, or user testing.
  • Knowledge of accessibility, inclusive design, human factors, and automotive usability principles.

We Offer

• Work on future-facing automotive and mobility programs with globally recognized brands.
• Contribute to products across passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, fleets, connected services, and future mobility ecosystems.
• Shape experiences from early vision and concept development through to production-ready design.
• Collaborate with experienced strategists, researchers, product designers, engineers, and AI specialists from around the world.
• Bring your craft to systems that must be beautiful, safe, scalable, and technically feasible.
• Be considered for future Star automotive and mobility programs aligned with your expertise, interests, and availability.
• Build long-term collaboration with a global design and technology partner.

About the Company

Star is a global design and technology partner for companies shaping the future of mobility. We work across strategy, research, product design, engineering, data, and AI to help automotive leaders move from vision to usable, scalable products. Our Automotive & Mobility work spans future cockpits, connected services, EV ecosystems, AI-powered interaction, and software-defined vehicle experiences.

If your portfolio shows the ability to turn automotive complexity into elegant, production-ready mobility experiences, we would like to hear from you.

How Our Collaboration Works

1. Apply by submitting your CV, portfolio, and relevant automotive or complex-system case studies.
2. Portfolio review. We look for strong HMI thinking, product depth, visual craft, and evidence of production-aware design.
3. Expert conversation. If your profile is a strong fit, we’ll invite you to meet the team and discuss your experience, strengths, and interests.
4. Opportunity matching. Selected candidates may be considered for future automotive and mobility programs where their expertise is relevant.
5. Project brief and terms. When a suitable engagement appears, we’ll share the project scope, timeline, expected contribution, deliverables, and commercial details.
6. Collaboration start. Once there is mutual fit, you join the project team and work alongside Star specialists and client stakeholders.

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