The ICON Industrial Design team is looking for a curious, passionate, and collaborative Senior Industrial Designer. An individual must be a highly motivated, determined problem-solver with a rigorous attention to detail. You will join a multidisciplinary team responsible for conceiving, designing, validating, and launching ICON's world-class products. As an ICONic, you will be a direct contributor to the development of entirely new products and processes to advance humankind's ability to provide dignified, affordable, resilient, and sustainable shelter to the world.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with team members and Executives to invent, design, engineer, and launch new products and services.
- Negotiating and collaborating cross functionally with various departments such as our Hardware, Home, Controls, Material Science and Software teams to refine and execute the vision for our products and services.
- Developing deep technical knowledge in areas outside your realm of expertise to understand other teams' design constraints and challenges in service of creating seamless processes and production solutions.
- Collaborating with outside vendors and internal experts to optimize designs for function, aesthetics, and production.
- Researching new materials, production methods, and technology as needed for projects.
- Must be willing to perform a wide range of tasks on a daily basis (e.g. Transition from studio work to field work at a moment's notice).
Key Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional work experience as an Industrial Designer.
- Industrial Design degree required.
- A body of work that has been produced or the understanding of how it can be produced.
- A healthy obsession with how things are made and how they work.
- Passion for materials and material exploration.
- A deep appreciation for aesthetics.
- Design craftsmanship - able to create high quality design work and then manage production of design work with various partners and vendors.
- Experience in hands-on prototyping, without relying solely on virtual design tools.
- Adept at communicating in a collaborative team environment and seeking optimum solutions with other team members.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience working in a design studio environment and or large multidisciplinary teams with strong design processes.
- Experience in space or additive manufacturing is a plus.
- Experience creating product ecosystems and entire design languages.
- Strong 3D-modeling & photorealistic rendering skills a plus.
Reports to: Director, Industrial Design onsite in Austin, TX with some travel as needed per project.
To apply, please provide a PDF portfolio/website and resume/CV.
