ONVO Visualization Designer (m/f/x) - Munich, Germany

About ONVO

ONVO is a new automotive brand under NIO, officially launched on May 15, 2024. It focuses on the family car market, offering intelligent electric vehicles with a design, development, manufacturing, and sales scope. The brand aims to provide a convenient and cost-effective car ownership experience, leveraging NIOs established energy services. The first model, the ONVO L60, was unveiled in May 2024. ONVO is designed to support family growth and enhance daily life, offering various services to its users.

For our Design Team in Munich we are looking for a

Visualization Designer (m/f/x)

ONVO is looking for a versatile Visualization Designer to join our Munich-based studio. This role will contribute to internal reviews and media releases, playing a key part in the creation of high-quality visual content.

Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality automotive videos and animation content for design communication, reviews, and presentations, including stills, visualization, and real-time experiences.
• Take an active, hands-on role in producing visual assets, covering scene setup, lighting, materials, look development, camera work, rendering, and post-production.
• Develop compelling visual narratives that effectively communicate design intent, proportions, surfaces, colors, materials, and product character with clarity and impact.
• Provide art direction input to enhance the overall visual quality and consistency of projects while remaining operationally involved in day-to-day content creation.
• Support real-time and immersive visualization workflows, including interactive reviews, Unreal Engine experiences, and VR applications.
• Independently prepare and organize incoming data, ensuring scenes are structured and maintainable for long-term use.
• Collaborate closely with designers, visualization artists, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate design goals into high-quality visual output.

Qualifications:

• Professional experience in automotive visualization, transportation design visualization, or related high-end product visualization fields.
• Expert-level skills in VRED, Unreal Engine, Blender, or similar related software.
• Strong experience in animation production, including camera language, pacing, sequencing, and presentation-oriented storytelling.
• Solid understanding of design visualization workflows for still images, films, and real-time experiences.
• Experience with real-time visualization, interactive presentations, and VR workflows.
• Proficiency in post-production using Premiere Pro or After Effects for video editing, compositing, and finishing.
• Highly organized and structured approach to working, especially in data preparation, scene organization, and file management.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with design teams and other stakeholders.
• Agency experience, AI skills, or modeling skills are a plus
• Help define and maintain visualization standards, workflows, and best practices within a small, highly collaborative team environment.

This is more than a job — it is an opportunity to join a dynamic team shaping the mobility experiences of the future. If this sounds as exciting to you as it does to us, please submit your CV and, in parallel with your application, send your portfolio in English to eu.recruitment@nio.io, clearly stating the job title in your email subject line.

Please note that your portfolio will be an essential part of our evaluation of your application. We therefore kindly ask you to make sure to submit a portfolio, or to explain the reason if you do not have one.

NIO as a Global User Enterprise has organized its business globally. Depending on the job you are applying for, it may be necessary to involve hiring managers outside the European Economic Area (EEA), that are engaged at another NIO group company, such as NIO Co., Ltd located in Shanghai, China or NIO USA Inc, Palo Alto, USA. If data is processed in countries outside the EEA, NIO uses standard contractual clauses published by the European Commission, with appropriate technical and organizational measures, to ensure that your personal data is processed in accordance with European data protection standards. The location of this job is at NIO GmbH, Montgelasstrasse 14, 81679 Munich, Germany.