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Ooni is seeking a senior industrial designer to join its team in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Eat pizza. Design products. Eat some more pizza. Rinse. Repeat.

The job:

• you are going to create the future of outdoor cooking with the world’s most innovative, stylish and popular pizza ovens and their accessories. Your creativity will help us expand the awesome Ooni range to dozens of epic experiential products
• you’ll be instrumental in the product creation and development cycle – you’ll shape the future of our products, through creating sleek, stylish and thoughtful designs befitting our brand, that blend high performance with aesthetics
• you’ll be reporting to the head of design and work closely with the rest of our product development team, including product managers, engineers, and project managers, as well as external partners
• you’ll be part of one team, with one (cheese-laden) dream – primavera, not primadonna
• you will be the lead designer on multiple projects at any one time. You’ll be involved from end-to-end across multiple projects, from concept through to manufacture and launch
• you will be a senior voice in shaping the direction and ensuring that our designs and products are in line with our Ooni DNA
• we will encourage you to push the boundaries and innovate

The person we want will have a wide range of skills. Things we are looking for in you include:

We need:

• experience in a senior role as a creative industrial designer with the ability to manage the design process and inspire the team around you
• proven experience creating hard good consumer products
• eight plus years of relevant industry experience working in-house or within a consultancy environment – basically a great understanding of product design fundamentals
• experience taking products from concept to mass manufacture with a broad understanding of common manufacturing processes to inform your design approach
• excellent verbal and visual presentation skills

We love:

• creative flair that blends beautiful design with carefully thought out details to delight our customers
• customer experience first focus, always
• aptitude for creative functional problem-solving with a great eye for product aesthetics
• ability to get hands on with prototypes and adapt and react with designs to enhance the product experience
• the ability to communicate effectively with the product and engineering teams and to engage with external suppliers and manufacturers both in the UK and internationally
• fluency with Solidworks
• Adobe creative suite and MS office work packages a big plus

The Company

Go to YouTube and search ‘We are Ooni’. That wee video pretty much says it all.

The quick version is:

• we make epic pizza ovens that cook awesome pizza in 60 seconds and start from only £249
• we’re growing really really fast and have no plans to slow down. In fact we’re the fastest growing company in Scotland according to The Sunday Times Fast Track!
• we’ve built a pretty cool office inside a warehouse in Broxburn. There’s a train station nearby or a car park if you prefer. We have two staff kitchens and a Nintendo. And a beer kit. And a table tennis table. And cornhole. And Marv the deer. And there are loads of puppies. And possibly a new pet cat since lockdown started
• we’re now up to 116 in the whole team. That was 56 this time last year and only 36 the year before that. And they are all awesome – our culture is core to our whole reason for being
• these are our values: passion, rigour, innovation, ambition and kindness. We really do live by them and demand them in everything we do. It ain’t just corporate mumbo jumbo to us. See how they’re capitalised to show how important they are?

Benefits:

• salary – based on experience
• £500 every year to spend on your passion – whatever that may be
• great pizza every single day if you want it. Yep. Every single day. And we’ll teach you to become a pizza pro
• pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, weekly yoga classes. (NamastYAY!)
• 35 days paid holiday per year
• £1000 to spend on Ooni products each year, plus 50% discount on any other Ooni stuff
• employee assistance programme – our people are at the heart of everything we do, so if you’re happy, we’re happy
• raising money for charity – we’re all about giving back and having lots of fun in the process!

If you need to know more, have a look at our website. Read a bit about our values and products and just have a wee Google.

If you like what you see and you fit the bill, send in:

• a short cover letter on why you’d like to join Ooni
• PDF portfolio of your most impressive and appropriate work
• CV

We really like nice letters – especially ones that are personalised just for us – so please don’t forget that bit.

By the way, since you’ve been reading this – we’ve just made 2 pizzas. You know you want a slice…

Please click here to apply

ooni.com

• Applications have closed.