Product Designer (Bothell, WA)

Philips•Bothell, WA

1d•$129,000 - $205,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Product Designer working on Philips Oral Healthcare’s solutions, you are part of a global multidisciplinary design team and will be responsible for designing oral care products and experiences that will improve people’s lives. You will assume product design responsibilities from consulting, framing the design challenge, planning the design approach, ideation, concept, specification to seeing the design through to production and launch. This role is focused on the design of physical consumer products and hardware experiences.

Requirements

3+ years of working experience in Product Design or Industrial Design.
Consumer electronics experience required.
Strong affinity for designing with form, color, material, and finishing.
Collaborate effectively with other functions to solve problems and achieve goals under tight timelines.
Able to manage and lead design projects independently with minimal supervision.
Proficient with 3D Computer aided design (CAD) software such as Rhino, CREO, SolidWorks or similar, and rendering tools such as Key Shot, or similar.
Bachelor's/Master's Degree in (UX) Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Computer Science Engineering or equivalent; OR 7+ years of above related experience.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Creative and empathetic, enabling you to create appropriate solutions that solve business and customer needs.
Positive outlook, hardworking and adaptable.
US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Responsibilities

Translate commercial briefs into user needs, pain points, and design opportunities. Monitor product trends and competitive landscape to inform direction. Frame the design challenge and design the project approach.
Define design problems, success criteria, and requirements; generate ideas through sketching and ideation, and evolve them into cohesive concepts (form, color, material, finish, interaction). Define critical design requirements as input to development team.
Create experience flow to understand the user experience journey and opportunities for the product and solution. Partner with engineering, interaction, packaging, and global design teams to ensure usability, feasibility, and alignment from concept through production.
Create high-quality renderings, presentations, and specifications (e.g., 3D CAD, CMF) and effectively communicate concepts to stakeholders. Review and validate designs through critiques, engineering builds, and samples; ensure final outputs meet design intent, maintain documentation, and follow development processes.
Guide junior designers and agency partners to achieve the desired project outcome.
Lead design project evaluation to capture learnings for continuous improvements.