Industrial Designer, Professional II

About the role

The Industrial Designer level II at Zebra partners with product development teams across all business units, including mobile computing, printing, data capture, intelligent asset tracking, and automation solutions. Designers work directly with product development organizations to deliver innovative product solutions, playing a key role in creating a competitive advantage for Zebra.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Senior Design leads to visualize the vision, prototype, and validate design intent, and guide the development team on directions that build on user-centered design principles.
• Work on all stages of the design development process, from customer research and concept development to design validation and execution.
• Create both conceptual and production 3D CAD models, ensuring the Design Vision is carried through to production.
• Engage with JDM manufacturing partners for production design activities.
• Create and maintain CMF (Color, Material, Finish) documents.
• Utilize AI-driven generative design and computational tools to explore and optimize design solutions based on performance, material, and manufacturing constraints.

Requirements

• Passionate about design & innovation
• Strong Collaborator - Works well across disciplines
• Growth Mindset: Sees each project as an opportunity to expand skills, refine judgment, and raise the quality bar
• Have a bachelor’s degree in industrial design or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience as an Industrial Designer
• Have worked with/for major national/international brands (Experience in Handheld, Wearable, or Tablet product development preferred)
• Strong problem-solving and conceptual development ability
• Excellent conceptualization sketching and ideation skills
• Excellent sense of form, proportion and detail development
• Solid experience in product design, demonstrating ability to resolve 3D form language
• Strong oral, written, and visual communication and documentation skills and ability to operate autonomously

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree required, 3+ years of experience in Industrial Design, proficiency in building 3D CAD models.
• Preferred Qualifications: Expert level knowledge of Nurb based surfacing tools (e.g. Autodesk Alias preferred), experience with engineering software (Pro-E/Creo or SolidWorks), expert Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Keyshot rendering skills, expert in modern AI tools (e.g., Midjourney, Vizcom, Veo, Firefly) for ideation, rendering, and rapid prototyping.

Benefits

In addition to base pay, Zebra offers this role the opportunity to earn a performance-based annual cash incentive, at a target equal to 10% of base pay, in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan. Zebra Total Rewards includes more than just pay and is structured to meet the needs of our changing global business and evolving talent. We are committed to providing our employees with a benefits program that is comprehensive and competitive – including healthcare, wellness, inclusion networks, and continued learning and development offerings. We offer community service days, in addition to the traditional insurances, compensation, parental leave, employee assistance program and paid time off offerings depending on the country where you work.

Pay

$76,640.00 - $114,960.00 Annual Incentive Compensation

Schedule

Role is required to be onsite in the Holtsville, NY office (Hybrid- Minimum of 3 days in the office per week).