Sr. Industrial Designer (Aruliden)

Material•New York, NY

10d•$95,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

Senior Industrial Designer (Aruliden) This role will be located at our office in NYC. About Aruliden & Material Aruliden is an award-winning studio that builds purpose-driven brands, products, and experiences. A multi-disciplinary team of industrial designers, brand designers, art directors, digital product designers, and strategists, we work together to bring brands to life, whether crafting their strategic DNA, developing a graphic identity, or developing their physical and digital products. We’ve delivered design solutions for: Verizon, Whoop, Google, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Fenty, Cecred, AG1, Seed, Movado, Bulgari, Supergoop, Simkhai, the MoMA store, Backdrop, Merit, and many more clients across a diverse range of sectors. Aruliden is the design & innovation studio within Material, a global integrated marketing services company that specializes in uncovering deep, data-driven insights in order to create experiences for clients, transforming relationships between businesses and the people they serve. About the Senior Industrial Designer role This is a role for a designer that wants to be in the driver’s seat, generating beautiful work while serving as an example and mentor to other designers on the team. Senior Designers work closely with Design Directors to understand and influence the vision of a project, and are the primary hands-on drivers of design deliverables. We’re looking for someone with a passion for design, impeccable taste, and a compelling skill set, including a keen sense of aesthetics and the ability to translate brand values into captivating narratives, products, and experiences. Senior Designers can expect to work with a diverse range of clients—from Fortune 100 companies to fast-moving startups—each offering their own unique challenges and opportunities. They can expect to partake in all stages of product development, from blue-sky ideation to design for manufacturing. The ideal candidate will have gained exposure to most or all of the stages of physical product design and development. Specific category experience might include one or more of: tech hardware, luxury packaging (especially in beauty or fragrance), home appliances & decor, and personal accessories. Experience in sectors outside of these categories is a plus. Candidates should be eternally-curious, always looking to push the limits of their skills or to research new tools and techniques, while bringing this sense of self-improvement to the team. They should have their finger on the pulse of trends and developments in design, technology, arts, and culture. They’ll be expected to demonstrate strategic thinking, visionary storytelling, exceptional ideation through sketching, 3D modeling and rendering, physical prototyping, and an understanding of manufacturing processes and materials. Senior Designers should be able to drive a project with self-sufficiency, checking in with Directors as needed. It’s not the primary role of Senior Designers to manage all client communications, however they should expect some amount of direct client contact, exhibiting professionalism, courtesy, clarity, and efficiency in presentations, calls, and messages. We’re looking for highly creative and strategic thinkers and makers – we listen, learn, reinvent, design and make stuff, come join us!

Requirements

5+ years of relevant design experience
Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional taste, ideation, and execution
Degree in Industrial Design or equivalent experience
Comfortable familiarity with human-centered design approaches and experience design principles and concepts
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Experience in or exposure to guiding products through a development & engineering process while protecting the integrity of the design intent.
Comfortable driving a project self-sufficiently with minimal supervision
Familiarity liaising with manufacturers, engineers, & model-makers
Concept, sketching, and rendering skills
Strong proficiency in Keyshot
Strong proficiency in Solidworks (preferred) and/or other 3D CAD packages (Rhino, Alias, etc.)
Strong proficiency in basic Adobe Creative Suite software
Located in NYC or surrounding areas, or willing to relocate

Nice To Haves

Experience in sectors outside of these categories is a plus.
Familiarity with Figma, Google Suite, and/or Microsoft Teams a plus

Responsibilities

Lead projects as a primary contributor: Contribute to the full design process including strategic thinking, inspiration-gathering, ideation, 3D modeling, physical prototyping, visual rendering, design for manufacturing, and presentation crafting.
Take on a variety of projects—sometimes simultaneously—from quick sprints to large, complex initiatives.
Work with Design Directors to understand & translate priorities and help define the creative vision.
Mentor younger designers, demonstrating by example and by direct guidance.
Quickly surface any project questions, challenges, or ambiguities to Directors or Project Managers.
Continuously improve your hard and soft skills, surfacing any interesting breakthroughs with the rest of the team to ensure we’re continuously innovating in our approach to design.
Maintain high quality standards for design, ensuring the work is strategic, aesthetically appealing, improves the experience of users, and supports business goals.
Be a champion for ethics in design with a demonstrable interest in and knowledge of social & environmental principles, paired with a drive to continuously improve our impact on human communities and natural ecosystems.
Help to build and maintain team culture, embracing the positive attitude and low-ego zone we’re proud to have cultivated.
Pitch in with voluntary housekeeping, whether cleaning up digital files or tidying around the office.
Suggest improvements to workflow or equipment.
Strengthen the team with referrals to prospective clients and/or new employees.