Senior Industrial Design

Hard Problems; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

WHOOP in Boston is seeking a Senior Industrial Design Lead to shape the future of hardware and wearable experiences. You will move between long-range vision and precise execution, guiding form, fit, materials, and manufacturing across teams.

You will lead design for hardware, bands, and accessories, translate insights into architectures, sketch concepts, prototype rapidly, and mentor a team. The role requires collaborating with engineering, CMF, manufacturing, and branding to deliver

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industrial design experience in consumer electronics, wearables, health technology, or related fields.
• Portfolio demonstrating concept development, prototyping, and production execution.
• Experience bringing products from concept through manufacturing and launch.
• Strong understanding of ergonomics, body-worn products, CMF, materials, and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead industrial design for hardware, bands, accessories, and wearable ecosystems from concept through production.
• Translate user, athlete, and market insights into design strategies and product architectures.
• Create design concepts through sketching, 3D modeling, prototyping, visualization, and storytelling.
• Drive wearability studies, fit analysis, and human factors exploration across body types and activities.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and CMF to balance design intent with feasibility and cost.
• Lead CMF direction with brand partners to reinforce the WHOOP design language.
• Build and evolve design systems for hardware and on-body experiences.
• Prototype rapidly across fidelity levels and mentor junior designers.
• Present design work to senior leadership with clear strategic and business justifications.

Skills

Industrial design

Product development

Ergonomics

2D/3D design

Leadership/mentoring

Storytelling/presentation

Tools

CAD

Job description

WHOOP is a wellness and fitness technology company that builds wearable health monitoring products. Its devices help people understand their bodies, improve performance, recover smarter, and build healthier habits through continuous monitoring and actionable insights. The company's Creative org is responsible for all physical expressions of the brand, from hardware, bands, and accessories to retail environments, pop-ups, and collaborations.

The role

The Senior Industrial Design, Lead exists to help define the future of WHOOP hardware and wearable experiences. The role sits within the Creative org and works across Product, Engineering, Research, CMF, Apparel, Manufacturing, Brand, and Marketing. The person in this role is expected to move between long-range vision and precise execution, shaping product strategy while attending closely to form, fit, material, finish, comfort, and manufacturing.

What you would do

• Lead industrial design for future WHOOP hardware, bands, accessories, and wearable ecosystems from concept through production.
• Translate user, athlete, and market insights into design strategies, product architectures, and differentiated physical experiences.
• Create design concepts through sketching, 3D modeling, prototyping, visualization, and storytelling.
• Drive ergonomic studies, wearability testing, fit analysis, and human factors exploration to ensure products perform across body types, activities, and environments.
• Partner with Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Sensors, Apparel, Product, and Manufacturing to balance design intent, technical feasibility, comfort, durability, and cost.
• Lead CMF direction in collaboration with CMF and Brand partners, ensuring every material, finish, texture, and color decision reinforces the WHOOP design language.
• Build and evolve design systems for hardware, accessories, and on-body experiences, creating consistency while enabling future innovation.
• Prototype rapidly across fidelity levels, from rough physical mockups to refined appearance models and functional wear-test samples.
• Mentor industrial designers and contribute to a high-performance creative culture.
• Present design work to senior leadership, articulating the strategic, experiential, technical, and business rationale behind key decisions.
• Partner with external vendors, model shops, factories, and development partners to preserve design intent through tooling, validation, and production.

What they are looking for

• 8 or more years of industrial design experience, with significant work in consumer electronics, wearables, health technology, performance products, footwear, apparel, or technically complex consumer goods.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong concept development, design process, problem solving, prototyping, and production execution.
• Proven experience bringing products from early concept through manufacturing and launch.
• Deep understanding of ergonomics, body-worn products, soft goods, hard goods, materials, CMF, manufacturing processes, and design for scale.
• Strong 2D and 3D design skills, including sketching, CAD, rendering, visualization, and physical prototyping.
• Ability to lead ambiguous, future-facing design programs while managing the details required to ship products.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams on technically constrained products.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
• A refined aesthetic point of view and a high bar for proportion, detail, materiality, usability, and emotional resonance.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to mentor designers and elevate the broader team.

Working arrangements

This role is fully on-site at the WHOOP office in Boston, MA. Candidates must be prepared to relocate to Boston if not already based there.

Pay and benefits

The U.S. base salary range for this role is $130,000 - $170,000. In addition to base salary, the successful candidate will receive a generous equity package and benefits. Individual pay within the range is based on job-related skills, experience, performance, and relevant education or training.