Senior Designer - Colour Material Finish (CMF) (m/f/d)

Senior Designer, Colour Material Finish (CMF) (m/f/d)at the Kia Europe Design Center in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Your Mission

As a CMF Designer within the Next Design Studio at Kia Europe, you will create innovative colour, material, and finish solutions that enhance the visual, tactile, and emotional quality of our vehicles. Working across interior and exterior design programmes, you will translate creative concepts into production-feasible CMF strategies that strengthen Kia’s design identity and elevate the customer experience.

You will collaborate closely with Design, Engineering, Procurement, Visualization, Design Strategy, Production, and Global Design teams to develop and implement CMF concepts from early research through production validation, ensuring consistency, manufacturability, and sustainability throughout the design process.

About The Team

At Next Interior Design, we are a multidisciplinary team of designers driven by curiosity, innovation, and a shared passion for shaping the future of mobility. We believe exceptional CMF design goes beyond aesthetics - it creates meaningful connections between people and products through colour, materiality, texture, and craftsmanship.

We encourage experimentation, collaboration, and forward-thinking design to develop distinctive experiences that define the Kia brand. Your ResponsibilitiesCMF Design Responsibilities

Develop innovative CMF concepts into refined, production-ready colour, material, and finish solutions. Research and explore emerging materials, finishes, textures, manufacturing processes, and sustainable technologies to drive future design innovation.

Create cohesive colour and material strategies that enhance perceived quality, craftsmanship, and the overall user experience. Integrate CMF solutions that reinforce Kia’s design language across both interior and exterior programmes.

Develop CMF proposals from concept through validation, including material selection, sample development, prototypes, and design specific