Director, Industrial Design

Responsibilities

• Design Leadership for Hardware
• Establish industrial design at True Anomaly: the function, the standard, and the working relationship with hardware engineering
• Own the design language of our hardware products through your team and your personal work
• Champion great design across the company by demonstrating its value and advocating to our exec and engineering teams
• Hire and lead a high-performing team of industrial and product designers
• Look to the future by visualizing visually stunning new concepts, designed to start conversations and inspire
• Push us out of our comfort zone and challenge the art of the possible
• Bring design into engineering and architecture decisions early, working with product engineering leadership early to influence and build great design into our hardware from the beginning

Qualifications

• Show us a portfolio of hardware you led or shaped, with a clear account of what you decided and why
• Demonstrate experience leading designers, from hiring to mentoring
• Fluency with engineering constraint. You’ll be working with people solving structural, thermal, and other problems, you need to be credible with them
• Consumer, automotive, aerospace, robotics, medical, and industrial equipment backgrounds all fit
• Defense and space knowledge is great, we don’t expect it
• An active security clearance is a bonus, not a requirement