Industrial Design Manager

We're working with an established and passionate global customer engagement agency seeking to hire a creative and innovative Industrial Design Manager (a leadership position) to join their busy and growing team working on recognizable consumer products within the hard goods/hard line space.

Salary: $130,000-$155,000/year + Bonus

Hire Type: Direct Hire / Full Time with Outstanding Benefits!

Location: Seattle (hybrid)

Why we love this opportunity:

• Join a highly intelligent and knowledgeable global team of diverse and incredibly talented individuals
• Extensive opportunity to make a large business and client impact
• True work/life balance and flexible hours yes, at an agency!

Experience

Required:

• 10 years proven experience as a practicing industrial designer for consumer hard goods (will consider a mix of industry background as long as the product background is diverse)
• 5+ years leading an Industrial Design team or studio with direct report responsibility
• Ability to be creative and innovative; expanding thinking on shape/form/material
• Strong sketching and conceptualization skills
• Solid understanding of Design for Manufacturability methods
• Ability to assess project risks impacting Industrial Design and recommend mitigations
• Possess a good understanding of various production & engineering processes – how they influence design and fabrication
• Comfortable with ‘progression’ in the context of multiple iterations of testing and learning
• Proficiency within Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Key Shot, Solidworks, Rhinoceros or other 3D CAD experience

Please ensure your resume includes your portfolio. Seeking examples of initial sketch through to ideation and how it comes to life within a true render.