Lead Industrial Designer

Criador Labs; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Criador Labs is seeking a Lead Industrial Designer to shape physical products, packaging, and UI/UX for mobile apps and web elements. You will define aesthetics, CMF, and manufacturability, collaborating with engineers and researchers across multidisciplinary teams.

You will mentor junior designers, lead design activities, and contribute to business development through proposals and pitches, delivering convergent experiences for diverse products.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of professional industrial design experience.
• University degree in Industrial Design or related discipline.
• Strong portfolio showcasing physical product design across consumer/medical domains.
• Business-level English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design physical products, packaging, and UI/UX for mobile apps and web elements.
• Define product architecture, material systems, and aesthetics with manufacturability in mind.
• Lead industrial design activities and mentor junior staff.
• Lead client conversations and contribute to proposals and pitches.

Skills

Industrial design experience

Presentation skills

Team collaboration

Portfolio quality

English proficiency

Education

Industrial Design degree

Tools

3D CAD

3D printing

Die-cut

Job description

We provide a meaningful career with new challenges in our growing startup, working in an encouraging, open, flexible, inclusive, and engaging multicultural environment. You will be surrounded by passionate and committed multidisciplinary colleagues from different Engineering and Technology backgrounds who share your ambition to build great products. Your work will be ambitious and full of growth opportunities. Variety and challenge will be part of your daily routines. Our passion unites our curious, collaborative, and out-of-the-box approach to improving the user experience through design while bringing our unique and diverse skills and experiences.

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for the design of physical products, packaging, and UI/UX for mobile applications and other web elements, considering usability, look and feel, and manufacturing in the segments of Consumer products and medical devices. They define product architecture and features, physical workflows and user experience, design language & aesthetics, colours & materials, and product technologies. They work closely with engineers, researchers, and other technical disciplines to shape “convergent experiences” involving physical, digital, service, and brand components.

As a Lead industrial designer, you are expected to represent depth in industrial design as an individual contributor, mentor, and guide for more Senior and junior colleagues. You will often be the backbone of your projects from beginning to end. You will plan, prioritise, and deliver industrial design activities autonomously in the context of interdisciplinary projects. You will lead client conversations within your domain, providing articulate recommendations and helping guide client choices. You will have opportunities to lead small teams on projects and contribute to business development through proposal writing and pitches.

• Plan and conduct design research focusing on product use and experience
• Analyse and test product usability, ergonomics, and workflow
• Run brainstorming sessions and design reviews
• Develop user experience scenarios and journeys integrating physical and digital interactions.
• Explore and develop aesthetic directions for individual products and cross-product design systems.
• Explore and develop ideas and concepts with hand sketching, 3D CAD, die-cut, wireframing, hand-built volumetric mock-ups, and 3D prints.
• Refine concept designs into 3D parametric CAD, including the definition of part break-up considering manufacturing and assembly
• Prepare product renderings and assets for visualisation
• Explore CMF (colour, materials, and finishes) with samples and renderings
• Create product design documentation and collaborate with the customer and 3rd-party engineering teams during development.
• Coordinate prototype supplier in the appearance model realisation
• Working collaboratively with the mechanical, electronics, and software engineering teams to ensure product manufacturability and integrity
• Mentoring the junior design staff and assisting them in understanding our process and brand
• 5-7 years of professional industrial design experience
• A university degree in Industrial Design or a related design discipline
• Highly developed design skills demonstrated in your portfolio of recent work
• Confident presentation and storytelling abilities
• Experience collaborating in multifunctional teams
• Proficiency with contemporary design tools and methods per the latest industry standards.
• Affinity with Criador's values and a passion for creating products that meet people's functional and emotional needs
• Business-level ability in English
• Experience working in a variety of organisations (start-up, corporate, agency/consultancy)
• Academic, professional, or life experience from outside the design field that enriches your perspective as a designer