Industrial Designer (Mid-Level)

Speks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

401k

Snacks and coffee

Job summary

Speks in Brooklyn (soon to be Manhattan) seeks an experienced Industrial Designer to shape sensory products from concept to manufacturable reality. This in-office role sits in midtown Manhattan and partners with the Lead Industrial Designer to push brand and product language across categories.

You'll prototype, refine, and communicate designs, with hands-on sketching, rapid prototyping, and CAD in SolidWorks. This full-time position includes benefits and a creative, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience as an industrial designer.
• Rapid ideation through hand sketching, rough prototyping, and quick visualizations using Illustrator and/or Photoshop.
• Exceptional 3D modeling and surfacing skills in SolidWorks (Rhino and other CAD software a plus).
• Obsessed with the details. You understand form, function, proportion, texture, and how a product looks and feels in the hand.
• A tinkerer who enjoys exploring new concepts and sharing ideas.
• You understand materials and manufacturing and can design products for production.
• A collaborative team player who welcomes feedback and can adapt as priorities evolve.
• You know the Adobe Creative Suite well.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative and innovative product concepts and designs under the Speks brand.
• Work with the lead industrial designer to develop new products and improve existing lines.
• Design within the Speks brand language and help expand it across categories.
• Run in-office prototyping efforts for new concepts.
• Produce and review prototypes and execute refinements.
• Create and manage a well-organized material and sample library.
• Turn prototypes and designs into manufacturable products with the Senior Product Development Manager.

Skills

3+ years experience

Hand sketching

Prototyping

SolidWorks

Rhino

CAD

Adobe Creative Suite

Tools

Illustrator

Photoshop

Rhino

Job description

Hi, we're Speks - a Brooklyn-based (soon to be Manhattan) design company bringing fun back into the workplace and beyond with innovative, adult-focused sensory products. We're growing fast and are looking for a detail oriented Industrial Designer to join our team.

This full-time, in-office role will be based in midtown Manhattan. You'll work alongside our Lead Industrial Designer to design, develop and refine all future Speks products! We have many products at various stages of the development pipeline and ambitions to launch products in new categories in the next 12 months.

Specifically, the role entails:

• Develop creative and innovative product concepts and designs under the Speks brand.
• Work with our lead industrial designer to develop new products, product extensions, improvements and modifications to existing product lines.
• Design within the Speks brand language, and help define how this brand language will expand across new product categories.
• Run the in-office prototyping efforts for new concepts.
• Produce and review prototypes and execute needed refinements.
• Create and manage a well organized material and sample library.
• Work with our Senior Product Development Manager to turn prototypes and designs into manufacturable products.

About you:

• 3+ years of professional experience as an industrial designer.
• Very comfortable with rapid ideation through hand sketching, rough prototyping, and quick visualizations using Illustrator and/or Photoshop.
• Exceptional 3D modeling and surfacing skills in SolidWorks (Rhino and other CAD software a plus). You're more than a modeler - you're a digital sculptor.
• Obsessed with the details. You understand and appreciate form, function, proportion, texture, and the way a product looks AND feels in the hand.
• A bit of a tinkerer. You love exploring new and unexpected concepts, playing with ideas, and aren't afraid to share a half-baked idea that may or may not go anywhere.
• You understand materials and manufacturing. You know the limitations and opportunities of different materials and processes, and can design products that can ultimately be manufactured.
• A collaborative team player who welcomes feedback, is comfortable changing direction, and can adapt as priorities evolve.
• You know the Adobe Creative Suite like the back of your hand.
• Experience in structural package design is a plus.

This is a full-time role in our brand new office next to Grand Central and comes with benefits, 401k and a kitchen full of snacks and great coffee.

See more of us at http://www.getspeks.com and http://www.instagram.com/getspeks .