Becton, Dickinson and Company

Staff Industrial Designer

Becton, Dickinson and Company$80K — $110K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • BS in Industrial Design, Product Design, or related engineering discipline
  • 8+ years of professional industrial design experience
  • Ability to drive design decisions independently with minimal oversight
  • Strong collaboration skills to influence across business units
  • Proficient in 3-D CAD Modeling software (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Creo)
  • Skilled in visualization/rendering software (KeyShot)
  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop)

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the industrial design expert across UCC platforms and establish design standards
  • Plan and conduct user research to gain insights into needs and workflows
  • Lead concept generation by translating user needs into product designs
  • Collaborate with Human Factors Engineering for usability studies
  • Ensure designs are manufacturable by working with mechanical engineering

Benefits

  • On-site collaboration to foster creativity and innovation
  • Minimum of 4 days in-office presence to maintain a strong company culture
  • Flexibility and emphasis on work-life balance
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Job Description

Purpose

BD UCC is establishing Industrial Designer capability for user-centered product design across its platforms. This role bridges aesthetics, ergonomics, usability, and engineering feasibility to deliver products that are intuitive, differentiated, and manufacturable. This individual will embed industrial design best practices into the product development lifecycle — from early-stage innovation through new product development.

Key Responsibilities

  • Industrial Design Leadership: Serve as the industrial design subject matter expert across all four UCC platforms. Establish and spread best practices, design standards, and a cohesive UCC design language.

  • User Research: Plan and conduct generative user research to understand needs, workflows, use environments, and unmet opportunities. Synthesize insights from observation, interviews, and usability feedback to inform design direction and customer requirements.

  • User-Centered Concept Development and Visualization: Lead concept generation from user and market insights. Translate user needs into product form through sketching, rendering, and prototyping.

  • Human Factors Support: Collaborate with Human Factors Engineering (HFE) through generative, formative and summative usability studies.

  • Design for Manufacturability (DFM): Partner with mechanical engineering and manufacturing to ensure design intent translates into producible components.

Required Qualifications

  • BS Industrial Design, Product Design, or closely related engineering discipline.

  • 8+ years of professional industrial design experience.

Skills and Experience:

  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and drive design decisions with minimal oversight.

  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; able to influence without authority across multiple business units.

  • Strong hand-sketching and visual communication skills.

  • Proficiency in 3-D CAD Modeling [ie SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Creo].

  • Proficiency in visualization/rendering software (ie KeyShot).

  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (ie Illustrator, Photoshop).

  • Hands-on prototyping experience (3D printing, foam/clay modeling, soft goods mockups).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in consumer products.

  • Experience integrated sensors, wearables, or smart clothing,

  • Experience with user research methods (contextual inquiry, ethnography, usability testing).

  • Working knowledge of manufacturing processes: injection molding, extrusion, thermoforming, over-molding, mechanical assembly.

At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance.

Primary Work LocationUSA GA - Covington BMD

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About Becton, Dickinson and Company

BD is a global technology company that provides diagnostics and technologies for frontliners. Through their solutions and services, they assist scientists in detecting diseases and advanced researchers' on developing diagnoses and therapeutics. BD was established in 1897 by Farleigh Dickinson and Maxwell Becton in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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