Head of Design Details - Exterior
The Head of Exterior Components holds company-wide accountability for the strategic direction, creative development and delivery of exterior details and components across the McLaren product portfolio, establishing these elements as a critical expression of McLaren’s evolving luxury-performance brand.
The role defines how exterior details — including illumination, wheels, aerodynamic features, functional hardware, exterior graphics, sensors and emerging technologies — contribute to the identity, sophistication, emotion and perceived quality of every McLaren product.
As McLaren evolves from an authentic performance machine brand into a broader global luxury-performance brand, the role establishes the standards, creative principles and design strategies required to ensure exterior details elevate product execution, craftsmanship and perceived value across multiple vehicle segments and architectures.
The role provides creative leadership from early brand and product strategy through concept development, design maturation and production delivery, ensuring that exterior components are not treated as isolated technical elements, but as an integrated and recognisable part of the McLaren design language.
The Head of Exterior Components acts as the senior authority for exterior detail strategy, setting the creative ambition, governance, quality thresholds, technical direction and supplier model required to deliver distinctive, emotionally compelling and technically credible solutions across the growing portfolio.
The role works closely with Exterior Design, Interior Design, Advanced Design, Engineering, Product Development, CMF, Brand, Marketing, Procurement and suppliers to ensure detail design is consistently aligned to McLaren’s brand values, product positioning and commercial objectives.
