Technical Product Designer Soft Goods

TECHNICAL PRODUCT DESIGNER – Soft Goods

Portland, OR

You are a self-starter, team player and hands-on with experience in designing, patterning and prototyping soft good products and assemblies. You love solving problems and enjoy the creative process of building a physical sample to prove out an idea. From concept to production, you know the commercialization process and how to guide a project from napkin sketch to a production ready confirmation sample.

You sweat the details because you want to deliver solutions that exceed the client’s expectations.

• Work on innovation design projects in consumer electronics, sportswear, wearables, medical tech, VR/AR, and aerospace
• Design and fabricate in Terrazign’s 6,000 square foot soft goods studio and machine shop
• Collaborate with project design leads to build design plans, create concepts and set deliverables for client projects
• Pattern soft good components, design 3D tooling and fixtures, construction functional prototypes and test samples
• Build presentation assets and communication tools that clearly describe decision making and design solutions
• Work with the client’s design, engineering, and manufacturing team members to be solution oriented to resolve project design and manufacturing issues
• Continually grow your knowledge of textile/material properties, soft good manufacturing processes and product industry standards
• Deliver the highest quality output with attention to all construction and material details

• Background in Industrial Design or Engineering with a focus on technical soft goods design, product engineering or innovation
• Experience designing and prototyping technical soft good assemblies: wearable tech, VR/AR, on body medical devices, CE assemblies
• 3+ years of experience working on a creative team
• Ability to approaching product design problem solving through the design thinking iterative process, scientific method, or engineering principles
• Comfort building physical soft good assembly prototypes to a “production ready” or “golden sample” level
• Knowledge of soft good materials and assembly techniques
• Ability to create 2D patterns for 3D objects
• CAD skills (rhino, Fusion 360, or equivalent)