Industrial Designer

Dolmen; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Major medical PPO insurance

Short/long-term disability insurance

Paid holidays and paid time off

Performance-based bonuses

401(k) program

Exposure to significant design and创新 团

Job summary

lifestyledesign is an independent design and innovation consultancy in Santa Barbara, CA, seeking an exceptional Industrial Designer. You will work across early strategic exploration, concept development, and detailed design through production, balancing big-picture thinking with precise execution.

The role values curiosity about fashion, technology, architecture, art, materials, brands, and global cultural trends.

Qualifications

• Portfolio with strong industrial design work across multiple products and categories.
• Demonstrated ability to move between concept exploration and detailed design.

Responsibilities

• Work across early strategic exploration, concept development, and detailed design through to production.
• Create compelling product concepts and design languages that differentiate brands.
• Collaborate with strategy, clients, and manufacture teams to realize designs.
• Communicate design intent through sketches, visuals, and prototyping.
• Contribute to exploring AI-enabled tools to enhance design processes.

Skills

Industrial design

Concept development

3D modeling

Rendering

Product development

Manufacturing understanding

Visual communication

Team collaboration

Curiosity with AI

Attention to detail

Job description

lifestyledesign is an independent design and innovation consultancy based in Santa Barbara, California.

We work with leading global brands and emerging companies across consumer technology, lifestyle, health and wellness, mobility, sporting goods, housewares, emerging technologies, and a broad range of design-driven consumer categories.

Our work often begins before there is a clearly defined product to design. We help clients identify new opportunities, rethink categories, establish design languages, build product collections, reposition brands, and define what should come next.

Our approach brings together industrial design, strategy, innovation, cultural insight, technology, and emerging AI-enabled creative tools to create work that is relevant, differentiated, and commercially meaningful.

We are looking for an exceptional Industrial Designer to join our Santa Barbara studio.

The Role

This position is for a designer with strong creative instincts, excellent craft, and a sophisticated understanding of contemporary design and culture.

You will work across a broad range of programs, from early strategic exploration and concept development through detailed design, visualization, prototyping, and production.

The role requires the ability to move comfortably between big-picture thinking and highly resolved execution.

We are looking for someone who can see the broader opportunity, generate compelling ideas across products, categories, collections, and experiences, articulate a clear point of view, and develop those ideas with precision.

Because of the nature of our work, we value designers who are curious beyond industrial design itself and maintain a strong awareness of fashion, technology, architecture, art, materials, brands, consumer behavior, and global cultural trends.

The Work

Our projects range from individual products to broader innovation and brand-defining programs.

One project may involve creating a new product. Another may require defining an entirely new collection, design language, category opportunity, consumer experience, or future vision for a brand.

The common thread is thoughtful design that connects with people, creates meaningful differentiation, and delivers real value for the companies we work with.

We are particularly interested in work where design, culture, technology, consumer behavior, and business opportunity intersect.

What We’re Looking For

We are interested in designers with a strong portfolio and demonstrated ability across many of the following areas:

• Exceptional industrial design and concept development skills
• Strong sense of form, proportion, detail, material, and color
• Excellent sketching and visual communication
• Advanced 3D modeling, surfacing, rendering, and visualization capabilities
• Strong understanding of product development and manufacturing
• Experience with hard goods, soft goods, or both
• Ability to identify and articulate meaningful consumer and market opportunities
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Awareness of contemporary design, lifestyle, technology, fashion, and culture
• Ability to work collaboratively while maintaining a clear creative point of view
• Curiosity and fluency with emerging creative technologies, including AI
• High levels of initiative, judgment, and attention to detail

We are open to designers at different stages of their professional careers. The quality of the work, depth of thinking, and relevance of experience will be the most important considerations.

We are looking for people who are passionate about design, highly engaged in the world around them, and motivated by the opportunity to create work that can genuinely move a category or brand forward.

The Studio

lifestyledesign is a small, highly collaborative studio.

Designers are closely involved in the work and have direct exposure to clients, strategy, concept development, decision-making, and product realization.

Our environment is fast-moving, hands-on, and highly engaged. It is particularly well suited to designers who want to expand their capabilities, contribute meaningfully to important programs, and continue developing their own point of view.

We are also actively exploring how AI and emerging technologies are changing the design process, from early exploration and visualization through innovation, development, and storytelling.

For the right designer, this is an opportunity to do ambitious work, grow quickly, and have a meaningful influence on both projects and outcomes.

Our studio is located in Santa Barbara, between the Pacific Ocean and the mountains.

The location is closely connected to many of the categories and cultures we work within, including lifestyle, wellness, outdoor, sport, mobility, travel, and contemporary California design.

Santa Barbara offers a rare combination of creative energy, natural beauty, and quality of life, and we see the location as an important part of the studio experience.

This is an in-studio position, and candidates should be genuinely interested in living and working in Santa Barbara.

What We Offer

• Major medical PPO insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Performance-based bonuses
• 401(k) program
• Exposure to a broad range of significant design and innovation programs
• Direct involvement with clients and senior decision-makers
• Opportunities for professional growth and increased responsibility

Please note: This is a full-time, in-studio position based in Santa Barbara, California. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We are not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

We are looking for designers with exceptional taste, strong ideas, deep curiosity, and the ability to turn insight into meaningful products, experiences, and opportunities.