Innovation Designer – Habitat Care

Procter & Gamble; United States; On-site; USD 92,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Procter & Gamble’s Habitat Care Design team is seeking an Innovation Designer to lead end-to-end product development, from consumer insights to manufacturable solutions. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external partners to craft breakthrough experiences for home and family care, blending startup agility with P&G scale.

You will apply deep consumer understanding, balance time-to-market with design excellence, and use AI tools to accelerate ideation and prototyping.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of full-time industrial design work experience.
• BA/BS in Industrial Design or similar field.
• A portfolio demonstrating Industrial Design mastery: technical proficiency, aesthetics, problem solving.
• Depth of understanding of materials and manufacturing processes.
• Teamwork & Communication: collaboration and leadership across functions.
• Innovation Mindset: drives improvements and embraces feedback.
• Uses AI-enabled tools for ideas, prototypes, and rapid iteration.
• Learning agility and resilience, open to coaching.

Responsibilities

• Transform insights and trends into actionable design strategies and breakthrough product experiences.
• Lead design workstreams and influence multidisciplinary teams to solve complex challenges.
• Partner with internal teams and external partners to explore and refine opportunities.
• Apply consumer understanding to create products that address unmet needs and drive growth.
• Move from concept to CAD to prototype with mastery of industrial design skills.
• Lead rapid prototyping using 3D printing and model making.
• Collaborate with R&D, Product Supply, Manufacturing and suppliers.
• Translate concepts into manufacturable solutions while maintaining a superior user experience.

Skills

Sketching

CAD modeling

SolidWorks

Fusion 360

Rhino

Product rendering

Adobe Suite

Design Research

Generative AI

3D printing

Education

BA/BS in Industrial Design

Tools

3D printing (SLA/FDM)

Comfy UI

Vizcom

Job description

Job Location MASON BUS AND INNOVATION CTR

Job Description

We are seeking a talented Innovation Designer to join our dynamic Habitat Care Design team. Habitat Care is P&G's newest category and business, bringing together innovative brands that help consumers care for the spaces they call home. Built from the success of ventures such as Zevo® (Pest Prevention) and Spruce® (Outdoor Care), Habitat Care is expanding P&G's portfolio into entirely new categories focused on safe, effective solutions for families and pets. As part of Fabric, Home & Habitat Care, Habitat Care combines the scale, capabilities, and resources of P&G with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a startup to create, launch, and grow breakthrough brands that solve unmet consumer needs. In this role, you will serve as a hands-on Designer focusing on innovation and product development. At P&G, Design is a critical part of the diverse team, using our creative superpowers to solve business challenges, envision possibilities & bring them to life with impeccable craft, going beyond the expected to surprise & delight consumers. Understanding Design Fundamentals and having strong collaboration skills will be essential, as you will interact with other designers and multidisciplinary teams to create winning design solutions.

What You Will Do:

• Human Centered Design: Transform consumer insights, market opportunities, business objectives, and emerging trends into actionable design strategies and breakthrough product experiences.
• Lead design workstreams and influence multidisciplinary teams to solve complex business challenges and deliver superior consumer solutions.
• Partner effectively with internal teams and external design partners to explore, develop, and refine innovation opportunities.
• Apply deep consumer understanding to create products and experiences that address unmet needs while driving business growth.

Integrated Design Strategy + Execution:

• Mastery level industrial design skills such as sketching, CAD, rendering Ability to move seamlessly from concept > CAD > prototype
• Agile and Rapid Prototyping: Lead hands‑on design exploration and prototyping activities using methods such as 3D printing, fabrication, model making, and rapid iteration.
• Partner closely with R&D, Product Supply, Manufacturing, and external suppliers to develop and refine functional prototypes.
• Utilize rapid experimentation and learning cycles to accelerate innovation and reduce development risk.
• Translate concepts into manufacturable solutions while maintaining a superior consumer experience.

Job Qualifications

• 1-3 years of full‑time industrial design work experience.
• BA/BS in Industrial Design or similar field.
• A portfolio that demonstrates Industrial Design Mastery: Technical proficiency, creative excellence, design thinking, storytelling, problem solving, rapid iteration, aesthetics, form development, ergonomics.
• Depth of understanding of materials and manufacturing processes.
• Teamwork & Communication: Has excellent collaboration skills and leadership, and for your ability to work effectively with partners across different functions and levels, including senior leadership. Forms and communicates a clear strategic design vision.
• Innovation Mindset: Generates new and better ways to get results; Drives improvements systemically to enable repeatable excellence.
• Utilizes AI‑enabled tools to create compelling ideas, prototypes, and quick design iterations, enhancing ideation speed and creativity.
• Learning Agility: Demonstrates curiosity and resilience. Learns from success and failures and open to feedback and coaching.
• Strong Project and Time Management Skills: Experience leading multiple high complexity projects simultaneously, with attention to detail and follow-through.

Required Skills:

• Industrial Design Core Skills Sketching CAD modeling- parametric solids, surfacing, advanced patterning (Solidworks, Fusion, Rhino) Product rendering Proficiency in Adobe Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.) Design Research and research data analysis Product photography Generative AI - controllable AI image generation (Adobe Suite/Firefly, Comfy UI, Vizcom) Fabrication (3D printing (SLA, FDM), proficiency in basic shop tools)

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Job Schedule

Full time

Job Number

R000159646

Job Segmentation

Entry Level Starting Pay / Salary Range $92,000.00 - $116,500.00 / year

P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a simple soap and candle company. Today, we’re the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands that make life a little bit easier in small but meaningful ways. We’ve spanned three centuries thanks to three simple ideas: leadership, innovation and citizenship. The insight, innovation and passion of talented teams has helped us grow into a global company that is governed responsibly and ethically, that is open and transparent, and that supports good causes and protects the environment. This is a place where you can be proud to work and do something that matters.