Industrial Designer

. Own industrial design workstreams from discovery through development.

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeUnited StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $110,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

Assembly

Key responsibilities & impact

Own industrial design workstreams from discovery through development.
Create meaningful physical products and experiences addressing user needs and delivering business value.
Plan and deliver industrial design activities within interdisciplinary engagements.
Advise clients within the industrial design area of expertise.
Translate research and strategy into product propositions, architectures, experiences, and design systems.
Define differentiated product value propositions, experience principles, product architectures, and design directions.
Plan and conduct research, facilitate workshops and design sprints, develop user journeys, and guide clients toward decisions on vision, strategy, and execution.
Conceptualize and communicate physical product experiences through sketching, three-dimensional CAD, renderings, mock-ups, storytelling, and AI-enabled visualization workflows.
Develop, prototype, test, and refine product concepts considering usability, ergonomics, human factors, sustainable materials, manufacturing methods, assembly, color, materials, and finishes.
Collaborate across strategy, research, digital design, data, engineering, suppliers, and client teams.
Mentor junior designers and contribute to proposals and pitches.
Apply AI-enabled tools and emerging methods to accelerate insight, exploration, visualization, and design refinement.

What you’ll need

Five or more years of professional industrial design experience, supported by a portfolio of recent work that demonstrates highly developed design skills and relevant project contributions.
Demonstrated ability to own industrial design workstreams and collaborate in multifunctional teams, including experience presenting recommendations, advising clients, and contributing to high-quality delivery outcomes.
Proficiency in contemporary industrial design tools and methods, including hand sketching, three-dimensional CAD, visualization, renderings, mock-ups, physical and virtual prototyping, design research, user testing, and iterative development.
Familiarity with AI and generative AI applications that support research, analysis, ideation, visualization, workflow improvement, and solution development, together with an understanding of responsible AI principles.
Strong AI literacy, including core AI and generative AI concepts, and understanding of their application to enterprise transformation.
Experience working in AI-augmented ways of working to enhance research, analysis, and solution development.
Understanding of responsible AI principles such as ethics, privacy, security, and governance.
Confident presentation and storytelling abilities.
Business-level English.
Ability to mentor junior designers.
A portfolio link or PDF is required with the application.