San Francisco, USA
Senior industrial designer
There is an opportunity for a senior industrial designer to join fuseproject in San Francisco.
We are currently seeking a senior industrial designer who has an outstanding product portfolio and experience building and guiding a team of extraordinary designers.
Responsibilities of the successful candidate include:
- defining and leading the activities required to generate a clear, compelling and actionable design point of view for the project team
- primary content creator and responsible for all design deliverables on the project
collaborating with account mangers and design leads to define and refine scope, brief, and approach to the project - interacting independently with the client to further fuseproject’s design point of view and to support the continuity of design vision throughout the production process
- mentoring industrial designers I and II and interns
- working with HR to identify and recruit talent for the team
- collaborating closely with the product portfolio director leading the European fuse team, supporting the strategic design direction of the portfolio in-line with fuse SF creative leadership
- ongoing day-to-day involvement with the client’s engineering, science/R&D, operations and manufacturing teams
- strong communication skills and must communicate with the SF design team on a daily base
Required skills/experience:
- five-eight years of relevant experience in marketing, product design/development, brand management, strategic product planning, strategy consulting, or equivalent
- live, breath, love design
- experience with major national or international brands a must
- consulting agency experience a must
- deep knowledge of materials, plastic and metal production processes
- deep understanding quality control and other techniques for manufacturing
- willingness to take direction and learn from others
- passionate thinker about consumer behavior
- multilingual skills are welcome
- sensitivity to international consumers and markets
- bachelor’s degree in industrial/product design
- this role may be temp-to-perm depending on skills and experience
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