Mid-level Industrial Designer

Location: New York
** Aruliden Design Studio - Mid-level Industrial Designer
*** This is a hybrid role based at our office in New York City.
*** About Aruliden & Material
** Aruliden is an award-winning studio that builds purpose-driven brands, products, and experiences. A multi-disciplinary team of industrial designers, 2D designers, and strategists, we work together to bring brands to life, whether crafting their strategic DNA, developing a graphic identity, or developing their physical and digital products. We’ve delivered design solutions for:
Verizon, Whoop, Google, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Fenty, Cecred, AG1, Seed, Movado, Bulgari, Supergoop, Simkhai, the MoMA store, Backdrop, Merit, and many more clients across a diverse range of sectors.

Aruliden is the design & innovation studio within Material, a global integrated marketing services company that specializes in uncovering deep, data-driven insights in order to create experiences for clients, transforming relationships between businesses and the people they serve.
** About the Industrial Designer role
** This is a role for a designer that wants to generate beautiful work at a high level. Industrial Designers are a key part of a project team, working as hands-on drivers of design deliverables.

We’re looking for someone with a passion for design, impeccable taste, and a compelling skill set, including a keen sense of aesthetics and the ability to translate brand values into captivating narratives, products, and experiences.

Industrial Designers can expect to work with a diverse range of clients—from Fortune 100 companies to fast-moving startups—each offering their own unique challenges and opportunities. They can expect to partake in multiple stages of product development, from blue-sky ideation to design for manufacturing.

The ideal candidate will have some level of familiarity across multiple stages of physical product design and development. Specific category experience might include one or more of: tech hardware & digital experiences, home appliances & decor, beauty/skincare/fragrance packaging, spatial environments, luxury goods, food & beverage, and 360° brand application.

Candidates should be eternally-curious, always looking to push the limits of their skills or to  research new tools and techniques, while bringing this sense of self-improvement to the team. They should have their finger on the pulse of trends and developments in design, technology, arts, and culture. They’ll be expected to demonstrate strategic thinking, visionary storytelling, exceptional ideation through sketching, 3D modeling and rendering, physical prototyping, and an understanding of manufacturing processes and materials.

Industrial Designers should be able to contribute to a project with a moderate level of self-sufficiency, while taking guidance from Senior Designers and Directors along the way.

Industrial Designers are not expected to manage client communications, however they should expect some amount of direct client contact, exhibiting professionalism, courtesy, clarity, and efficiency in presentations, calls, and messages.

We’re looking for highly creative and strategic thinkers and makers – we listen, learn, reinvent, design and make stuff, come join us!
** As an Industrial Designer you will:
**** Contribute to projects:
*** Contribute to the full design process including strategic thinking, inspiration-gathering, ideation, 3D modeling, physical prototyping, visual rendering, design for manufacturing, and presentation crafting.
* Take on a variety of projects—sometimes simultaneously—from quick sprints to large, complex initiatives.
* Work with Senior Designers and Design Directors to understand & translate priorities and help define the creative vision.
* Mentor younger designers, demonstrating by example and by direct guidance.
* Quickly surface any project questions, challenges, or ambiguities to senior staff or Project Managers.
* Continuously improve your hard and soft skills, surfacing any interesting breakthroughs with the rest of the team to ensure we’re continuously innovating in our approach to design.
* Maintain high quality standards for design, ensuring the work is…