Industrial Designer - Outdoor Products

Location: 2805 N. Dallas Parkway, Suite 305

Job :896

# of Openings:1

Backyard Products is looking for a creative and highly motivated Industrial Designer to join our product development team in Plano, Texas.

This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career designer who wants to see ideas move beyond the sketchbook and become real products in consumers' backyards.

The Industrial Designer will help develop products across our outdoor structures, storage, and outdoor living portfolio
, including gazebos, arbors, greenhouses, planter boxes, outdoor kitchens, sheds, outdoor storage solutions, and related accessories.

The ideal candidate combines creative thinking, strong visualization skills, and practical problem solving with an interest in how products are engineered, manufactured, assembled,

packaged, merchandised, and ultimately used by consumers.

You will help translate consumer needs, market opportunities, backyard trends, and emerging lifestyles into compelling early-stage ideas and then work with cross-functional teams to develop those ideas into commercially viable products.

• Design and develop new products across the Backyard Products portfolio, including sheds, gazebos, arbors, greenhouses, planter boxes, outdoor kitchens, outdoor storage products, and related accessories
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• Rapidly translate early concepts and sketches into 3D CAD, renderings, and tangible product solutions
  , using Solid Works and Key Shot to evaluate form, function, proportion, materials, features, and overall consumer appeal.
• Explore multiple design directions early in the development process, helping the team quickly move from abstract ideas to realistic and actionable product concepts.
• Develop concepts from initial ideation through refinement and support their progression toward production-ready, commercially viable products.

• Use competitive research, market trends, consumer needs, retail insights, and existing portfolio knowledge to identify new product opportunities and inform design direction.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Product Management to understand retailer needs, consumer expectations, competitive positioning, and emerging backyard trends.
• Look beyond existing products to identify opportunities for new features, configurations, materials, aesthetics, accessories, and consumer experiences.

• Create product concepts that balance design appeal, functionality, manufacturability, cost, assembly, durability, packaging, shipping, and retail requirements
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• Participate in cross-functional concept and design reviews, clearly presenting design concepts and rationale while incorporating feedback into subsequent development stages.
• Support design handoffs and product development activities alongside Engineering, Product Management, sourcing, and manufacturing teams.
• Work collaboratively to maintain the original consumer and design intent as concepts move through engineering and commercialization.
• Develop high-quality product renderings, lifestyle imagery, animations, presentation materials, and other visual assets that clearly communicate product concepts and design intent.
• Create compelling visual presentations using cutting edge AI tools that allow internal teams, retailers, and external partners to quickly understand a product's design, features, scale, use case, and consumer value.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Marketing to translate product features and design decisions into clear consumer-facing benefits, product stories, and positioning
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• Work closely with Industrial Design, Engineering, Product/Project Management, Marketing, Sales, sourcing, and manufacturing teams throughout the development…