Junior Designer (Remote Position)

Emergency University; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Vacation time purchase option

Job summary

Emergency University is seeking a curious Junior Designer to join a small, energetic team in Portland. You will explore concepts across physical and digital design, build low- to high-fidelity prototypes, and contribute to the full project lifecycle while being mentored by senior designers.

You'll gain hands-on experience in concepting, sketching, workshop facilitation, and cross-functional collaboration, growing your abilities across multiple design disciplines in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in industrial design, transportation design, or a related field.
• Internship, co-op, academic, or entry-level experience in consumer product design or related fields.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite design tools.
• Familiarity with 3D modeling software (e.g., Alias AutoStudio, Rhino, Blender).
• Familiarity with presentation applications (PowerPoint, Keynote).

Skills

Curiosity

Creativity

Communication

Storytelling

Growth mindset

Presentation

Visual sensibility

Sketching

Prototyping

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Transportation Design

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Alias AutoStudio

Rhino

Blender

VRED

Maya

Photoshop

Illustrator

PowerPoint

Keynote

Job description

We're looking for a curious, adaptable, and driven Junior Designer to join our team and grow alongside us as we envision and craft simple, thoughtful, enjoyable, and compelling products and services for customers.

This is an incredible opportunity for an early-career designer to build a broad, multidisciplinary skill set across physical and digital design disciplines in a high-energy, small-team environment where every contributor wears multiple hats. You'll gain hands-on exposure to concepting and sketching, low- to high-fidelity prototyping, workshop facilitation, and asset production across the full lifecycle of projects, pilots, and research initiatives - all while being mentored by senior designers and cross-functional experts.

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree in industrial design, transportation design, or a related field.
• Some experience (internship, co-op, academic, or entry-level) in a consumer product industry, transportation sector or supplier, design consultancy, or similar field.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite design tools.
• Familiarity with at least one 3D modeling software application (e.g., Alias AutoStudio, Rhino, or Blender).
• Familiarity with relevant presentation applications (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote, or similar).

Even better, you may have...

• 0-2 years of industrial design or transportation design studio experience (internships and academic project work welcomed).
• Strong curiosity, creativity, and eagerness to experiment with features and functional solutions.
• Emerging ability to translate customer and research inputs into relevant, desirable product concepts.
• Developing communication skills through presentation and storytelling.
• Growing product design aesthetic sensibility.
• Foundational sketching, visualization, modeling, and presentation skills.
• Some 2D application skills (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.).
• Some 3D application skills (e.g., Alias AutoStudio, VRED, Rhino, Maya, or Blender).
• Hands-on experience or interest in building low-fidelity prototypes (e.g., cardboard, foam core, wood, laser cutting, 3D printing) and a desire to learn production and prototyping methods.
• Interest in learning to translate design vision into animated story-form using digital presentation tools (including AI visualization tools).
• A growth mindset and willingness to take on new challenges as design proposals move from concept toward production.

A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.