{"id":2755401,"url":"https://alion.io/job/avatr-technology-research-designer","title":"Research Designer","company":{"id":58987,"name":"Avatr Technology","domain":"avatr.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/avatr-technology","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Feishu","truth_index":null},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Shanghai, China"],"countries":["CN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-10-20T01:31:02Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-17","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T12:36:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":385,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":385},"description":"岗位职责 / Responsibilities\nResearch, Innovation and Experience Specialist / Designer\nResponsibilities\nAs a Senior Innovation Research Specialist, you will function as the strategic foresight hub and intellectual catalyst for the design organization. Your core mandate is to monitor and interpret global advancements in technology, evolving socio-cultural paradigms, and emergent design movements-translating these complex insights into actionable, future-oriented design strategies, conceptual frameworks and design experiences. This ensures Avatr's design vision remains both pioneering and distinctively differentiated in a competitive landscape. Key responsibilities include:\n1. Strategic Trend Intelligence & Synthesis\nSystematically monitor, analyze, and synthesize macro-level trends across artificial intelligence, advanced materials, human-centered interaction, sustainable systems, and adjacent domains-including socio-cultural shifts, lifestyle evolution, and aesthetic sensibilities.\nConduct in-depth comparative analysis of user experience patterns, behavioral drivers, and market dynamics-not only within the automotive sector but also across convergent industries such as consumer electronics, fashion, architecture, and mobility services.\nAuthor rigorous, evidence-based research reports and deliver structured knowledge briefings to design leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, enabling insight-driven ideation and strategic alignment.\n2. Future-Oriented Design Concept and Experience Development\nTranslate trend intelligence into coherent, scalable automotive design concepts and experiences -including holistic design language systems, experiential archetypes, innovation and technology requirements, and human-centered interaction principles for next-generation mobility contexts.\nLead facilitated foresight workshops and collaborative ideation sessions to cultivate collective innovation capacity and explore plausible, desirable, and feasible futures for travel, interaction, and ownership.\nCurate and sustain a living design intelligence repository-comprising annotated trend analyses, visual inspiration libraries, conceptual precedents, and methodological frameworks-to rigorously inform and elevate design decision-making across projects.\n3. User-Centered Insight Generation\nIntegrate mixed-method research (e.g., ethnographic inquiry, behavioral analytics, participatory co-creation, and longitudinal studies) to uncover latent user needs, evolving aesthetic values, emotional expectations, and unarticulated pain points among target segments.\nBenchmark competitor design philosophies, product ecosystems, and brand positioning strategies against industry leaders and category disruptors; distill actionable insights on whitespace opportunities and sustainable differentiation levers.\n4. Integrated Strategy Enablement\nPartner closely with Strategy, R&D, Product Management, and Marketing functions to embed design foresight into enterprise-level roadmaps-including technology investment priorities, platform development timelines, and go-to-market narratives.\nArticulate research-derived insights as clear, prioritized, and implementation-ready design strategy recommendations-directly supporting critical decisions on design direction, feature definition, and brand expression.\n任职要求 / Requirements\nQualifications\n1. Education and Professional Experience\nHold a bachelor’s or advanced degree (master’s or higher) in design strategy, industrial design, automotive design, product design, experience/interaction design, or a closely related discipline.\nPossess a minimum of three years of professional experience in trend research, design research, experience design, or innovation strategy-ideally within consulting firms, research institutions, or industry-leading organizations, with preference given to candidates with exposure to the automotive, consumer electronics, or internet sectors.\n2. Core Competencies\nDemonstrated ability to identify, interpret, and contextualize emerging technologies and their strategic implications for product and service innovation.\nProven expertise in macro-level trend analysis, market research, and user-centered insight generation; proficient in both qualitative (e.g., ethnography, in-depth interviews, co-creation workshops) and quantitative (e.g., survey design, data analytics, scenario modeling) research methodologies.\nStrong foundational knowledge of design thinking and practice, with particular familiarity with automotive or product design processes-this is considered a distinct advantage.\nExceptional analytical rigor, synthesis capability, and logical reasoning-evidenced by the consistent ability to distill complex, multidimensional information into actionable, evidence-based insights and strategic recommendations.\nOutstanding written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated success in developing compelling proposals, delivering persuasive executive presentations, and translating technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.\nOutstanding Story-telling and visualisation skills, e.g. creating moodboards, animations and movies describing customer situations, user journey and experiences.\n3. Personal Attributes\nIntellectual curiosity coupled with a systems-level perspective and openness to interdisciplinary exploration.\nForward-looking mindset, creative problem-solving orientation, and capacity for imaginative yet grounded ideation.\nCollaborative disposition and interpersonal effectiveness-able to build consensus, inspire cross-functional teams, and exert constructive influence across organizational levels.\nResilience and adaptability in high-velocity, ambiguous, and evolving work environments.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5707,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Consumer Electronics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-17T01:41:54Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":25,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.692,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":385,"expected_fill_days":218,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/avatr-technology-research-designer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/avatr-technology-research-designer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T13:27:00Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":17657,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":58987},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=58987"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Favatr-technology-research-designer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Favatr-technology-research-designer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Favatr-technology-research-designer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/avatr-technology-research-designer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Favatr-technology-research-designer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2755401}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"avatr.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2755401},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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