Head of Industrial Design
Plaud
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $250,000 - $400,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Responsible for designing and developing new products, including appearance, structure, and functional design, to meet market demands and enhance user experience.
- Industrial designers should possess innovative thinking and creativity, providing unique design solutions that give products a competitive edge.
- Focus on the product’s user experience, ensuring functionality, usability, and comfort meet user needs, thereby improving the product’s market competitiveness.
- Optimize organizational resources according to department goals and business changes, build a talent pipeline, and enhance the professional skills of team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Industrial Design, Product Design, Art Design, or related fields.
- Over 8 years of experience in industrial design, including at least 3 years in team management, with successful hardware product design cases and project management experience.
- Familiar with industrial design processes for various product types, knowledgeable about CMF processes and manufacturing workflows, with rich hands-on design experience, and keen insight into global product design trends.
- Proficient in Rhino, 3ds Max, SolidWorks, Photoshop, Illustrator, familiar with 3D printing tools and operations, and possess excellent hand-drawing skills to quickly and accurately convey design ideas and concepts.
- Passionate about design work, with strong responsibility and professionalism, attention to detail, pursuit of excellence, and strict standards for design quality.
- Expert-level proficiency in industrial design tools (e.g. Alias, Rhino, SolidWorks, KeyShot or equivalent).
- Strong capability in 3D surface modeling, CAD review, and design-to-engineering handoff.
- Experience using rendering and visualization tools to communicate design intent.
- Familiarity with prototype development and translating digital design into physical samples.
Benefits
- Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
- 401(k) plan for full-time employees with company matching.
- Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
- 12 weeks of paid time off for new parents.
- Minimum of 3 in-office days per week.
- New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.
- Best office equipment. Annual offsites. Free office drinks and snacks.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
industrial designproduct designCMF processesmanufacturing workflows3D surface modelingCAD reviewdesign-to-engineering handoffprototype developmentrendering toolsvisualization tools
Soft skills
innovative thinkingcreativityuser experience focusresponsibilityprofessionalismattention to detailpursuit of excellenceteam managementorganizational resource optimizationtalent pipeline building
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Industrial DesignBachelor’s degree in Product DesignBachelor’s degree in Art Design