New Product Industrial Designer - Hybrid

Hybrid role: work from home on Monday and Friday; work on-site Tuesday through Thursday in Earth City, MO. Relocation assistance may be provided for candidates outside commuting distance.

About the role

The New Product Industrial Designer is integral to the new product development process within Spectrum Brands’ Home & Garden Research and Development team. The designer will translate consumers’ desires and needs into new, consumer-focused delivery systems and devices. This role works closely with engineering, marketing, manufacturing, and other R&D functions to design and prototype innovative new products.

Responsibilities

• Understand consumer insights and extrapolate them to develop new, unique consumer experiences and products.
• Drive a consumer-first mentality when developing new products and advocate for consumer-led innovation within the organization.
• Collaborate with Marketing, New Product Development, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to develop innovation opportunities.
• Develop design concepts with a focus on ergonomics, form, and function for hard and packaged goods through concept sketching and rendering.
• Leverage software to create aesthetic solid models and digital renderings (2D and 3D).
• Develop quick physical form study models and mockups using rapid and mechanical prototyping lab through a concept–prototype–iterate–repeat approach.
• Model, prototype, and test looks-like and functional prototypes through rapid prototyping and conventional fabrication techniques.
• Create compelling new products with technical expertise that delight consumers and fulfill unmet needs.
• Develop key supplier relationships to accelerate product implementation.
• Flex between an aesthetic design mentality and a technical, functional mindset.
• Actively participate in technical and consumer-focused brainstorm sessions.
• Incorporate new capabilities in AI generation and iterative development.
• Assist in maintaining mechanical prototype machinery (table saw, band saw, etc.) and rapid prototyping machinery (FDM, PolyJet, etc.).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design.
• 4+ years of experience in industrial design.
• 3+ years in hard goods design execution.
• Proficiency in Acrobat Pro, SolidWorks (or other 3D modeling software), Keyshot, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), PowerPoint.
• Experience in consumer-packaged goods preferred.
• Consumer science experience with ability to assist in consumer research through central location tests, ethnographies, and in-home usage tests is preferred.
• Portfolio showcasing design expertise with creative thinking, design thinking, problem solving, aesthetics, prototyping, and iterative design development.
• Knowledge of materials used for hard and packaged goods production through processes such as injection molding, blow molding, thermoforming, etc.
• Strong collaboration skills, partnering with internal and external stakeholders on aesthetic design, part moldability, assembly, and design-for-manufacturing.
• Always-learning mindset with a strong curiosity and desire to fail fast to learn quickly.
• Project and time management capabilities to execute project priorities and deliverables in a timely and efficient manner.
• Advanced knowledge of design-for-manufacturing and ability to work closely with mechanical engineering to execute on product design.

Role not eligible for sponsorship.