Description
Senior Industrial/Product Designer Telecom Equipment Engineer - 12mths+ (or Permanent if preferred) - Gothenburg (Sweden)
The Role:
As industrial designer, you´ll work as a team-player in multidisciplinary teams or in a more independent way, to create successful products for a global brand that tell solid stories and provide great user experience.
* You will be asked to generate innovative and waterproof concept designs with a User Centered Design approach:
* you will be asked to carefully shape products down to the very detail to make life easy for the users.
* You will conduct field-research and synthesize results to guide concept design phases.
* You will aim at a rationalist, minimal and elegant design, always consistent with requirement specifications and fitting into a greater product portfolio design language.
* You will be challenged to ideate mechanic and kinematic solutions to be developed jointly with engineering teams.
* You will ensure the feasibility of your ideas by exploring alternative solutions in terms of product architectures, material and manufacturing processes.
* You will test and implement your ideas early on in the process through both sketching, CAD and model making.
We are looking for a long term consultant for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
* Guiding product development from initial research and concepts to successful products
* Communicating ideas and concepts to designers, engineers and other roles within the organization
* Manage projects in a multidisciplinary team at different levels of involvement
* Be responsible for ideation as well as proper implementation of ideas
* Maintaining a continued understanding of the competition, industry, standards and relevant trends
Requirements:
* You preferably have a minimum four year college degree in industrial design and/or design engineering
* You have 5 - 10 years experience in industrial design and product development.
* You can prove excellent feeling for form and proportion.
* You have a strong understanding of global trends, technology and fashion
* You have a sound understanding of mechanics, kinematics, manufacturing processes and materials
* You have some experience in model-making and quick and dirty prototyping, working with basic tools and machinery on wood, plastics and metals
* You are proficient using tools like Pro-Engineer, Rhino, Key-shot or 3ds, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
* You are able to work with engineers and other specialists to develop new solutions in combination with existing and new manufacturing processes.
* You are self driven and know how to organize work and lead design effort according to tight schedules.
* You understand that assignments regularly require travelling abroad.
For more information regarding the position, please contact myself for further information: