Industrial Designer
IDEO
Job Description
As an Industrial Design at IDEO, you’ll have the opportunity to change the world by creating human-centered designs and experiences. Working across various disciplines and applying the design concepts on diverse projects, you’ll be working autonomous and have the ability to lead your team’s industrial design perspective.
Listening, observing, brainstorming and interacting with a diverse group of people is must for breakthrough ideas that lead to innovative outcomes. This job position may include some of the following:
- meeting with clients to establish the design brief, including the concept, performance and production criteria;
- working on ideas as part of a team or developing design concepts using CAD (computer-aided design);
- taking part in specialist or multidisciplinary team meetings;
- sketching initial design ideas;
- identifying the suitability and availability of materials;
- producing detailed, final hand drawings and specifications or, more likely, using dedicated computer software (CAD) to produce design specifications, including parts lists and costings;
- making physical renderings;
- testing the design concept;
Industrial designer Spencer Nugent
Abduzeedo Sketches
Industrial Designer John Muhlenkamp
Experience and Education
The ideal candidate possesses arts, design or product design degree. Postgraduate qualifications can be helpful for graduates from other relevant disciplines and for job opportunities within specialist market sectors. Experience gained via internship, industrial placements, design competitions and final year projects is advantageous.
Must have:
- Excellent visual and spatial awareness
- Well-developed technical and creative skills
- Commercial awareness
- IT skills, including CAD
- Communication and interpersonal skills
Salary and Location
Professional Organization
- AIGA
- IDSA
- The Design Council The Design and Technology
- Association Design Trust
- Chartered Society of Designers