Jeff Hammoud is a Canadian designer of Lebanese descent. Currently Chief Design Officer at

Rivian Rivian Automotive, Inc. is an American electric vehicle manufacturer and automotive technology company founded in 2009. Rivian is building an electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) and pickup truck on a "skateboard" platform that can support fut ...

. A native of

Guelph Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wel ...

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...

, Jeff earned a degree in Transportation Design in Detroit from the

College for Creative Studies College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a private art school in Detroit, Michigan. It enrolls more than 1,400 students and focuses on arts education. The college is also active in offering art education to children through its Community Arts Part ...

in 2004 and an MBA from

Oakland University Oakland University is a public research university in Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 1957 through a donation of Matilda Dodge Wilson, it was initially known as Michigan State University-Oakland, operating under the Mi ...

in 2016. Contracted by

Chrysler Stellantis North America (officially FCA US and formerly Chrysler ()) is one of the " Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the American subsidiary of the multinational automoti ...

, he worked in the company's design studios in Michigan. Hammoud designed the

Jeep Grand Cherokee The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a range of mid-size SUVs produced by the American manufacturer Jeep. At its introduction, while most SUVs were still manufactured with body-on-frame construction, the Grand Cherokee has used a unibody chassis from the ...

model unveiled in 2011 and the 2015

Chrysler 200 The Chrysler 200 is a mid-size sedan that was manufactured and marketed by Chrysler from model years 2011 to 2017 across two generations in four-door sedan and two-door convertible (first generation only) body styles. The 200 nameplate debuted ...

. Jeff Hammoud is the Chief Design Officer at

. Jeff is responsible for the look and feel of all Rivian products leading Rivian’s design teams. In May 2017 when Jeff joined Rivian, he was tasked with building the design team, design process, and design studio for Rivian. Under his responsibility, the recently launched

R1T The Rivian R1T is an mid-size electric light duty luxury pickup truck produced by the American company Rivian. The first production R1T rolled off the assembly line in Illinois and was delivered to a customer in September 2021. The official ...

and R1S were developed. In 2021 Jeff was awarded the

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All Star for Design Before joining

, Jeff was the Chief of Design for the Jeep brand, UV and Passenger car interiors at FCA. Jeff’s experience includes the design and integration of engineering for numerous production vehicles. Jeff was personally responsible for the design and execution of the current Jeep Grand Cherokee exterior, as well as leading design teams to launch various core company vehicles for both interior and exterior including the new Jeep Wrangler during his 13 years at FCA.

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