.**Director of Design & Development**Location Tlaquepaque, Mexico**Pacesetting. Passionate. Together.** HELLA, one of the leading automotive suppliers worldwide, has shaped the industry with innovative lighting systems and vehicle electronics. In addition, the company is one of the most important partners of the aftermarket and independent workshops. What motivates us: Shaping the mobility of tomorrow and fostering the central market trends such as autonomous driving, efficiency and electrification, connectivity and digitization as well as individualization. Every day, 36,000 employees worldwide are committed to this with passion, know-how and innovative strength.**YOUR TASKS****A Development Concepts**1 Determining development concepts on the basis of Pre-Development results2 Devising necessary evaluation benchmarks in this specialist sphere in order to safeguard long-terminnovation leadership in the development segment**B Employee Management**1 Training, supporting, instructing and motivating members of staff; setting and assessing targets2 Initiating training programs and working out proposed salaries aimed at ramping up commitment,performance levels, creativity and staff initiative while at the same time improving quality awareness,cost awareness and occupational safety**C Concept Planning / Implementation**1 Advising and considering all commercial aspects during the concept planning for new lighting systemsand technologies with a view to quality, costs, scheduling and also property rights**D Establishing of Development Partners / Contacts**1 Collaborating with customers, suppliers and institutes; analyzing and exploiting specific fields of**E Transferring of Expertise for Series Development**1 Incorporating findings from Pre-Development (technology, systems) into series development so as to layfoundations for the development of new products and innovations**F Setting Development Targets**1 Defining and coordinating priorities with the appropriate departments when preparing and processingdecisions2 Providing development capacities for technical designing of equipment and systems and for their typeapproval in order to raise development performance and service and also to shorten response times anddevelopment processes, e.G