Jr Industrial Designer [67822]

Company: Onward Search
Location: Providence
Posted on: June 23, 2022

Job Description:

Do you like following a design project through from beginning to end? Are you an innovative designer who gets excited about creating products that extend the feel and look of a brand? Then you may be just the right fit for my client's open industrial designer position. My client prides itself on designing creative lifestyle products. This industrial designer position will focus on educational games. Job Responsibilities

• Research industry literature and build a knowledge base of product trends through conversations with production, engineering and sales professionals which will lead to new product design ideas
• Work with clients in order to understand design parameters within defined product categories and research the demographics of consumer product use
• Create preliminary artistic drawings in the form of illustrations and storyboards of product concepts, present them to clients for feedback and creatively use the feedback to refine product design
• Use CAD software to refine designs and create virtual models of products
• Utilize 3D printing to create product prototypes that are both non-functional and working in order to evaluate their practicality
• Collaborate with a team of manufacturing professionals and engineers to evaluate product prototypes in order to determine production feasibility and costs
• Utilize computer-aided industrial design (CAID) software to instruct manufacturing equipment how to build the finalized product design and present to manufacturing departmentRequired:
  • An analytical thinker who is energized by solving problems through design
  • Minimum of Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent work experience in product design, industrial design, game design, or related field
  • 2+ yrs of experience in product design, UX/UI, or related field
  • Portfolio that showcases samples of physical or digital product design or UX/UI design work
  • Experience creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows to effectively communicate design and interaction ideas
  • Proficient in Adobe CS (InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop)
  • Good grasp of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
  • Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines

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