Industrial Design Manager
About The Position
As an Industrial Designer, you have an immense passion for design. As a design leader, you are skilled at harnessing the wide-ranging skills of a highly motivated group of industrial designers. You know how to optimize a creative team to consistently generate results that exceed customer and consumer expectations, on time and on budget. You are obsessed with bringing cutting edge yet balanced consumer goods to life. You know that a rich and considered user experience is just as paramount as beautiful, timeless, and on trend design. As a leader in a dynamic, cross-functional team, you will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and R&D teams to bring design to life through collaboration on solutions that deliver on the expectations of the consumer, from initial opportunity to final production. Do you thrive in an environment where ambiguity and possibility abound and it’s up to you to lead innovation? Are you passionate about bringing groundbreaking and balanced products to life? If this sounds like you, then please join us in creating a better world through our products!
Requirements
- Mentor and develop the ID team members, identifying educational and professional development opportunities
- Strong people management skills with a passion for optimizing teams toward exceptional output
- Ownership of ID team processes while continuously identifying, investigating, and adapting tools and techniques for product and process improvements
- Successful track record delivering a constant flow of projects with timelines
- Excellent analytical ability with a passion for product development and problem solving
- Work with outside consultants when vital to drive design projects outside scope of internal team abilities
- Partner with peer leadership across subject areas to drive brand growth through design and innovation, as well as cultivate multi-functional collaboration between the Industrial Design, Product Management, Engineering, and R&D teams
- Champion and contribute to PMI’s efforts toward ‘design for sustainability’
- Strong social skills, communicating effectively with individuals and large groups (internal and external) at all organizational level
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Industrial Design
- 10 years proven experience as a practicing designer for consumer hard goods
- 5+ years leading an Industrial Design team or studio (consumer hard goods preferred)
- Expert level experience with SolidWorks, Rhino 3D, Keyshot (preferred) or other rendering software, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Proven skills in sketching and conceptualization
- Ability to work accurately with close attention to detail
- Proven knowledge of ‘Design for Manufacturability’ methods
- Sophisticated knowledge of product manufacturing including plastic injection molding, metal forming, CMF (Color, Material, Finish) techniques
- Proven experience working with, and presenting to customers
- Direct experience communicating directly with engineers and factories (Asia based factories preferred)
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 15% of the time
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead the Industrial Design team, design process and best practices while working cross-functionally within our New Product Development (NPD) community.
- In this role you will lead and encourage a team of designers and together will help determine aesthetic direction, materials, construction methods, mechanisms, shape, finishes, and manufacturing processes of final products
- Responsible for building, mentoring, and supporting a team of dedicated industrial designers in bringing innovative, ground-breaking, and balanced products to life
- Lead industrial design team through high volumes of development work within expected and manageable timelines alongside a cross functional team of product managers, developers, engineers, quality assurance, and supply chain professionals
- Build and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, exceptional design impact, engagement, and celebration of wins
- Guide and focus the team’s creation and execution of design work to excellence, from concept to design finalization, on time and on budget.
- Manage allocation of ID team resources across a large portfolio of products ranging in complexity, scope, and project stage in order to deliver exceptional results on time
- ID team resource management: reviewing project status, refining project schedules, communicating with cross-functional peers and leadership, etc.
- Partner with leadership to determine product design strategy and priorities
- Partner with engineering and product leaders and teams to problem solve and envision intuitive user interfaces and functionality
- Build and advocate for processes, documentation and best practices that deliver design results
- Drive ideation sessions with the ID team as well as cross-functional brainstorms, research activities on users, trends, materials, and processes that may be applied towards development of future products
Benefits
- Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
- Paid parental and medical leave programs
- 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
- 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
- Hybrid work model
- Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
- Inclusive employee resource groups
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
