Product Design Engineer I (Temp)
The Opportunity
As a key contributor to new product development, you will collaborate closely with our global Product Innovation Teams across China, the UK, and the US to co-create front-end solutions for both existing and emerging product categories under our core health and wellness brands: Levoit, Cosori, and Etekcity. Positioned at the intersection of design and engineering, this role involves ideating, prototyping, and testing innovative concepts that align with insights from our marketing, brand, and consumer research teams in each region.
You’ll work cross-functionally to generate and validate product concepts through consumer testing and prototyping in-market. Once opportunities are deemed viable—based on design, engineering, culinary, marketing, brand, and consumer insight alignment—our China-based R&D teams and manufacturing partners will support detailed design development and production readiness.
What you will do at VeSync
- Discovery - you will be comfortable spending 6 months or more in our global offices gaining valuable and unique insights specific to each global region including cultural/market/user/business/design and technical engineering insights
- Technical Expert - Provide support on consumer product technologies, engineering principles
- Builder of things - Manage hands-on projects in the early develop phase to fail fast to prove or dis-prove an idea through the means of 3D printing or hand-crafted rigs utilizing shop equipment
- Resolve - The ability to listen carefully, ask questions, then understand sometimes complex issues and put forward a point-of-view on next steps
- Consumer & Market Insight - you will look to gain insights into each working region across both the consumer and market to guide new product creation
- Process adherence - our global IPD process, whilst continuously improving, is well understood and utilized by our development teams. An important part of the role will be bringing a structured approach to projects to ensure seamless, accurate collaboration
- Inspiration - you will bring passion, creativity and drive to support this new endeavor
What you bring to the role
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Engineering discipline, including Design or Mechanical design, or at least currently pursuing degree
- MSc in Industrial Design Engineering is strongly preferred. However, this is NOT an Industrial Design role.
- The candidate will have spent 0-2 years in consumer product design and development for local or international markets.