Industrial Designer

This is a hybrid role requiring weekly presence in our Ann Arbor, MI office*

The Industrial Designer will work under the guidance of a Lead Industrial Designer and will support design efforts that align to Real Truck’s extensive product roadmap, lifestyle, and branding needs. This role will be highly collaborative with Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing covering the development of products in Truck, Jeep, and Off‑Road accessories. This position will help define industrial design of all new products within a designated category and strengthen the brand’s presence within the category with innovative, feature‑rich design.

• Through team collaboration, use a combination of sketching, CAD visualization, 3D models, and working prototypes to evaluate potential design solutions.
  • Contribute to a design language that solidifies the Real Truck brand for the category.
  • Research design related areas of influence such as trend, color, materials, processes, software, and AI‑aided design practices.
  • Develop designs through sketching, CAD/surfacing, high‑quality renderings, mock‑ups, and 3D printed models.
  • Communicate the design intent through visual storytelling to gain acceptance by project teams.
  • Explore concept generation through ideation, competitive assessments, and identification of unmet user needs.
  • Participate in brainstorming and concept‑generation events to establish opportunities to explore and develop.
  • Create the materials required to convey the design direction to management or cross‑functional partners through renderings, and models.
• Seek to gain in-depth knowledge of the user, the competition, and our production capabilities to drive the development of industry‑leading design for the category.
  • Research, ideate, and contribute to the identification of new ideas, products and/or features that improve customer satisfaction, seek opportunities to reduce costs and keep our product line at the forefront of our industry.
  • Hold a creative mindset that can aid in making design decisions in support of the user and the brand/design vision.
  • Utilize consumer insights and functional needs to provide conceptualization/visualization that enhances new product concepts enabling consumer‑centric and winning products for the category.
  • Maintain awareness and solid understanding of existing products and competitive products within the industry.
• Contribute to and support the Company Growth Plan and its goal to ‘Lead the industry through innovation and superior product offering’ by accomplishing the following:
  • Participate in guiding and aiding in building an inspired product pipeline for the category.
  • Introduce category‑specific consumer‑driven innovations year over year.
  • Help to define product platforms that allow for differentiation and step‑up strategies.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, product management and engineering, to deliver designs based on established criteria.
  • Participate in creative workshops and aid in developing design that result in innovative design solutions.
  • Deliver compelling design, meeting the criteria outlined, that supports the user needs, category, brand, and business objectives.
  • Seek to identify insights through research that aid in concept generation through ideation, competitive assessments, and identification of unmet user needs.

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial design required.
• 1‑2+ years’ experience as an Industrial Designer of consumer products required.

• Knowledge of CAD Modeling – Solidworks.
• Knowledge of Rendering Software – Keyshot.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); ability to prepare professional PowerPoint presentations.
• Strong interpersonal skills that bring a positive and collaborative working relationship at all levels.
• Excellent communication (verbal/written) and presentation skills.
• Ability to write, speak and comprehend English.
• Proven leadership skills that inspire and motivate team members and colleagues.
• Strong understanding of branding and the development of a design strategy…