Industrial Designer – Part-Time
Sidekick
part-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • Canada
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About the role
- Design premium, functional forms for mechanical injury-rehab products
- Challenge product concepts and simplify designs through first-principles thinking
- Improve ergonomics, usability, and perceived quality without adding complexity
- Collaborate closely with engineering
- Design with real manufacturing constraints in mind (injection molding, CNC, assemblies)
- Help remove unnecessary parts, enclosures, or components through smarter design
Requirements
- Senior industrial designer with experience in mechanical or physical products
- Strong instinct for clean, premium, minimal design
- Comfortable pushing back and reframing problems, not just executing requests
- Understanding of ergonomics, forces, and real-world use
- Familiar with DFM considerations (materials, draft, part count, tolerances)
- Independent, thoughtful, and comfortable working part-time and async
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape premium, real-world mechanical products used daily by customers
- High ownership and influence despite part-time hours
- Direct collaboration with engineering and product leadership
- Focus on thoughtful design decisions over churn or pixel-pushing
- Flexible, async-friendly contract structure
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
industrial designmechanical designergonomicsdesign for manufacturing (DFM)injection moldingCNC machiningproduct designminimal designfirst-principles thinkingusability
Soft skills
collaborationproblem reframingindependencethoughtfulnessclean design instinct