Opportunity
We are seeking a talented Industrial Designer to join our fantastic team of researchers, designers, engineers, and experience modelers to create future products for some of the world’s most exciting consumer, professional, and healthcare brands. If you are passionate about beautiful design and user experiences that inspire people then we’d love to hear from you. You will leverage your talents to create ambitious design concepts and sweat the detail as we bring the vision to life.
Interested? Learn more via our careers page
About us
Everyone at Design Partners shares the same goal, to elevate human potential. That’s about creating future product experiences that enable people to achieve incredible things. Meaningful products that add enjoyment to everyday life. Making complex tasks simple. Empowering people to be better tomorrow than today. How? We uncover meaningful insights to inspire your business & innovation strategy. We are natural-born problem solvers, dedicated to bringing ideas to life. A connected team of researchers, designers & engineers, all under one roof innovating with momentum. Teamwork delivers the best thinking and our clients enjoy that spirit of partnership.
Be part of our growing team and help us create the next wave of category-defining product experiences.
About the role
We offer you the opportunity to work and grow in a dynamic and supportive team environment. We are ambitious and future-focused, with a strong sense of what is practical. We create meaningful visions for the next wave of product experience and dig deep to make it real. You will be guided to continually imbue these qualities in your designs. You will be encouraged and expected to realise your professional potential and strive for ever better.
You will
- Participate in research and mine for insight to inspire solutions
- Build compelling stories that will project the brand and captivate its audience
- Create outstanding product concepts across a broad spectrum of industries
- Possess a strong aesthetic sensibility and a great eye for detail
- Design holistic user experiences
- Continually hone your technical, artistic and communication skills
- Confidently move between craft and digital tools to optimise creative workflow
- Have a sustainability mindset when developing new concept ideas
- Collaborate with an open mind with colleagues and clients
- Lead with creativity and act with urgency
- Drive to design at the highest level for our clients and their customers
With full R&D facilities and a highly experienced team you will have the equipment, encouragement and expertise to fully develop your concepts from hand crafted models through to fully working prototypes. Our work environment is second to none – a fully equipped 1,000 sq m. combined studio and workshops designed to maximise experimentation, creativity and fast progress.
Ideal qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial design
- Minimum 3 years professional experience (ideally in consultancy but not essential)
- Excellent portfolio showing your skills for product and user experience design
- Fluent and confident with hand sketching and craft modelling
- Excellent aesthetic sensibility
- Thorough understanding of three-dimensional design and experienced with Rhino and Keyshot. (or equivalent)
- Experienced at tuning in to brand values and crafting compelling stories
- Empathetic to user needs, motivations and behaviours
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with a strong ability to articulate and convince others of your ideas and concepts.
- Demonstrate proficiency in Adobe Creative suite applications
- Good understanding of engineering and manufacturing requirements
Could you be our next Industrial Designer?