About This Role
This Industrial Designer role at IDEO involves partnering with interdisciplinary teams to design innovative and human-centered physical products and services. The position emphasizes creative problem-solving, core industrial design skills, rapid prototyping, and advanced visual storytelling, focusing on hands-on making and prototyping. The ideal candidate will collaborate with various design professionals and have the opportunity to design cutting-edge products while growing as a Design Thinking practitioner within IDEO's network.
Responsibilities
- Apply expertise to develop compelling physical product designs and systems, balancing form, function, technical constraints, and manufacturability
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, including mechanical/electrical engineers, software developers, visual and interaction designers, brand strategists, and design researchers
- Present ideas through sketches, CAD models, renderings, and physical mock-ups to clients and team members
- Actively contribute to and lead human-centered research to inform design strategies
- Create prototypes at varying fidelities using tools such as 3D printing and other rapid prototyping methods to explore, test, validate design concepts, and aid research efforts
- Drive cross-functional collaboration and demonstrate leadership over the course of 12+ week projects
- Deliver exceptional visual storytelling using an array of 2D and 3D tools and techniques, creating compelling presentations for clients
- Explore early-stage inspiration through digital experimentation, including generative AI and other innovative tools
- Mentor fellow designers within and across disciplines by sharing knowledge, articulating industrial design processes, and demonstrating advanced craft techniques
Requirements
- 1-2+ years of experience + internships in industrial design, including end-to-end contributions to projects in consumer products, medical devices, soft goods, or packaging
- Demonstrated fluency in digital tools such as Solid Works, Rhino, Keyshot, Blender, and Adobe Creative Suite
- Go-to-market (GTM) experience, with the ability to meaningfully contribute to the associated industrial design work streams within multidisciplinary teams
- Prototyping expertise, including 3D printing and other rapid prototyping methods
- A passion for building in 3D while actively prototyping in real time to test insights
- Visual storytelling abilities, including strong instincts in graphic design and deck-building
- Strong theoretical or practical understanding of and ability to collaborate on the design for manufacturing (DFM) process
- Professional experience with one or more of the following:
- Consumer Electronics Design: complex surface design, integration of mechanical and electrical components like screens, speakers, and cameras
