Senior Industrial Designer, Packaging

Position: Senior Industrial Designer, Packaging Experience
At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

We're looking for a creative, hands-on Industrial Designer to join the Packaging Experience team and help shape how Sonos products are packaged, revealed, and remembered. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Packaging Experience, this role owns the industrial design and unboxing experience of Sonos packaging: the box style and die-lines, the structural design of the cushions, the closure method, the product wrap, the layout of the components, and the way the product is revealed.

You will work in sketch, CAD, and physical mockup, and partner closely with packaging engineering, sourcing, and suppliers to take an idea from a paper study to mass production. We are looking for someone trained in industrial design who thinks in form, material, and sequence, who is energized rather than boxed in by the constraints of fiber-based materials, drop performance, and cost targets.

Industrial Designers on the Packaging Experience team work with a high degree of independence on assigned programs while collaborating daily across design and engineering. You will join a team of designers dedicated to packaging that owns the full experience of unboxing a Sonos product.

Learn more about Sonos packaging:

The Dieline:
Redefining The Unboxing Experience Red Dot:
Sonos Sub Mini and Sonos Ray Packaging This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Santa Barbara area (Goleta, CA) office location and should expect to be in office 3 days a week.

Note:

A portfolio of relevant design work is required for consideration. Please submit your digital portfolio under the "Website" portion of the application, or attach a .pdf of your work. If there is a code or password needed to access your work, don't forget to include it.

What You'll DoOwn structural and three-dimensional design for assigned packaging programs, from box architecture and opening sequence through trays, inserts, and retention components

Develop original concepts through sketching, paper studies, CAD, and physical models, designing the unboxing as an intentional experience with considered pacing, reveal, and gesture

Produce dielines, 3D models, and structural documentation that packaging engineering and suppliers can build from directly

Carry assigned programs from concept through production release, maintaining accountability for craft, timing, and design intent throughout

Build models and prototypes by hand and by machine, validating fit, retention, and assembly with real product; review supplier prototypes and mass production samples against approved intent and drive issues to resolution

Act as the design liaison with packaging engineering, sourcing, suppliers, and converters, translating design intent into clear, buildable guidance

Present structural design work and its rationale to cross-functional teams and leadership

Partner with product industrial design so that packaging form, proportion, and material direction are considered alongside the product itself

Contribute to the structural side of the Packaging Experience design system, including standard architectures and components that scale across product categories

Influence sustainable packaging efforts through fiber alternatives, material reduction, and recyclability

What You'll Need Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree in…