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Made needs a product designer as a Senior Project Lead!

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Made is all about ‘exciting change’. They’re excited to make things better by continuously pushing for better things, and impacting the world with positive changes. For more than 10 years Made has been discovering, designing and building successful products and services that have changed the market. They walk the walk! They believe that to change something you need excitement, but to really change the world you need to deliver! Made is a design & innovation agency that combines insight from human behavior with opportunities in technology and business to create relevant solutions in an actionable way. They are a young, dynamic, and award-winning team of ambitious design thinkers whose goal is to expand as a thriving innovation platform. Apply now to be a part of this exciting environment!

Promoted by new regulations governing the provision of drinks during the 2016 UEFA European Championship, Coca-Cola challenged Made to help boost their sales during the game, and they developed the most multifunctional Coca-Cola backpack for vendors.

The Opportunity

Made is looking for someone who knows how to lead and manage Industrial Product Design projects from A to Z. Because you’re a Product Designer yourself, the Industrial Design process doesn’t have any secrets from you. As a Project Lead, you know the capacities and strengths of your design team and you match them with the needs of the clients. You’re an analytical thinker who loves to bring structure into complexity. You excel at setting up effective and efficient workflows for yourself and the project team(s) you run. You’re looking for a strategic challenge and you like to create an impact with your job? Well, then this just might be the position for you.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze a demand from the client: the why, how, and what.
  • Lead & Manage Industrial Design projects. You’re a workflow guru who uses project management tools to successfully deliver projects to the market.
  • Align the team to meet the project’s needs.
  • Apply design methods that put the user first.
  • Organize and lead workshops and co-creation sessions.
  • Translate strategic insights and user-needs into concrete and relevant concepts and prototypes.
  • Work in a multidisciplinary team (Digital/Product/Strategy/Business).
  • Keep the connection with the Strategy and Digital team to stimulate the synergy between the teams.
  • Test, validate and iterate on product prototypes.
  • Concept guarding the soul and vision of the product during the engineering and production phases.
  • Cultivate and maintain a network of suppliers and development partners.
  • Assess the impact your work will have on the desired business model.
  • You inspire clients and stakeholders and you challenge them to go one step further.
  • You’re actively searching for up and cross-selling opportunities for Made.

Requirements

  • A master diploma in Product development, product design, innovation management or 5 years of relevant working experience.
  • Handling project management tools that help you to keep track of the progress and budget of the projects.
  • Strategic insights: making sure that what is made is relevant and viable.
  • If needed you can help the team in 3D modeling (Solidworks), sketching, conceptualizing (Adobe Creative Suite). You’re not afraid to make a concept yourself.
  • You make crystal clear, nice-looking and to-the-point presentations and know how to present them to a C-level audience (Google Slides, Keynote, and etc.)
  • You’re aware of the state-of-art production, prototype techniques, and material properties.
  • You have a network of relevant suppliers in prototyping and production partners that you actively nurture.
  • Motivated, proactive, creative, and inspiring
  • Very good communicator
  • You are the right kind of difficult: you know when to push and when to deliver.
  • A team player
  • Fluent in English and preferably also in Dutch
  • Car license B

Benefits

  • Projects for industry-leading clients and ambitious SME’s and start-ups that will challenge your skills.
  • The opportunity to create and develop relevant and impactful products and services.
  • Room for personal development.
  • A crucial role in developing Made’s Industrial Design team.
  • The opportunity to attend events and conferences.
  • An informal and open culture.
  • Enthusiastic colleagues working within an award-winning team.
  • In addition to a competitive salary and fringe benefits, you’ll be working within an open culture where hard work goes hand in hand with lots of fun.

How to Apply

Are you interested? Get in touch. Email them on jobs@haveitmade.be

Location

Antwerp, Belgium.

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Designers of the TIME 2018 Best Invention ‘ROOM One’ Need a Product Designer

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ROOM is here to make room for people in the modern workplace. They create thoughtful designs that inspire new ideas, fresh perspectives, and a better way to work. Their first product is a soundproof phone booth for the open office. It takes away the noise and makes room for what’s essential. ROOM delivers directly from factory to business and keeps prices low so that their clients can invest in bigger ideas down the road, by rethinking and refining every step of the customer experience they offer thoughtful, modular solutions that grow with the business, leading the way to better Mondays and a brighter future. Since launching in May 2018, Room has acquired over 2000 clients, ranging from budding startups to Fortune 500 companies, such as JP Morgan, Nike, Google, and Salesforce. They are backed by Slow Ventures and notable angel investors from Silicon Valley, and TIME named our product one of the Best Inventions of 2018. ROOM’s belief is simple: What makes you different is what allows them to be different. They value diversity not only in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, and religious background but also in the way you think and approach challenges.  Not only are they committed to creating a work environment where you can be yourself and but also ensure that everybody’s voice is heard. Diversity isn’t something the company simply preaches but something they practice everyday and taking care of their team is always a top priority. Apply now if you’re interested in creating solutions that improve life at work and are looking for a culture of growth, freedom, and accountability!

Designed with recycled materials and engineered to perfection, Room’s soundproof office phone booths are seamless, sustainable and simple, and was named one of the Best Inventions of 2018 by TIME. 

The Opportunity

With ROOM’s first product, ROOM One, they offer a moment of peace to everyone who has ever taken a phone call in the hallway, finished a spreadsheet in the quiet time at midnight, or sat alone in the stairwell to be alone and think big thoughts. As the company begins to expand their product offering, they’re are looking for a rockstar product designer who lives and breathes user-centric design, is passionate about sustainability, and has the skill to ensure that their products remain the most attractive ones on the market. The ideal candidate is a Product Design with experience driving consumer and furniture products from concept through production on time while championing the voice of the customer.

Responsibilities

– Support the product design process, alongside engineering, from brainstorming and concept generation through production.
– Create concept sketches and renderings to present to key stakeholders.
– Get your hands dirty making initial prototypes to verify new ideas.
– Act as a key stakeholder in developing ROOM’s product families and product roadmap.
– Cultivate a deep understanding of our customers and advocate for solutions based on their needs and pain points.
– Specify CMF (colors, materials, finish) for new products.
– Ability to synthesize an understanding of customer behavior, our brand, and market trends into a story and a product.

Requirements

– A degree in Industrial Design or an equivalent program.
–  4+ years of product design experience.
– Incredible 3D CAD Modeling Skills, especially with the surfacing. (SolidWorks strongly preferred).
– Ability to quickly create and iterate on photorealistic renderings (KeyShot, VRay, Cinema 4D, etc.)
– Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite like the back of your hand.
– Jaw-dropping portfolio with demonstrated ability to execute on tight deadlines.
– Projects ranging across a variety of materials and manufacturing processes. Furniture and textile experience is a must.
– Experience in a startup environment where you have taken ideas from conception to production.
– Uncanny ability to juggle multiple priorities and make trade-off decisions when timeline, specs and/or budget don’t align.
– Confident self-starter who is comfortable working in a changing and ambiguous environment.
– Eager to wear multiple hats and do the next most important task, even when it is new, unfamiliar, or outside the scope of your daily work

Benefits

Health & wellness: Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance to take care of you and your family.
Unlimited PTO: Flexible vacation policy to allow you to unplug and recharge whenever you need it.
Equity: Company stock to honor your hard work and dedication.
Fully stocked kitchen and lunches: Weekly catered lunches and plenty of healthy snacks, coffee, and drinks to give you the perfect energy boost.
Commuter benefits: Pre-tax savings that make a difference in your budget and your morning commute.
Team events: Monthly team outings, dinners, and happy hours that inspire new conversations and lead to meaningful relationships.

Location

New York, NY.

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Hop on board as a Product Designer at Spotify to design for their first hardware devices!

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Currently ahead of Apple Music in terms of revenue as well as listeners, Spotify is literally where a majority of the world goes to get their daily dose of music and podcasts. Built around an incredibly powerful recommendation engine (of which I’m an absolute fan), Spotify has the unique ability to serve you fresh music that you’re sure to love. With their recent launch in India, Spotify is now a global giant in the music industry, and chances are you’ve used their music streaming services sometime in your life. Expanding slowly but surely into the hardware industry, Spotify’s first product is the Car Thing… A device that brings Spotify’s music collection and app-services into your automobile. While still not officially launched, the Car Thing is just one of Spotify’s many products to help deliver their music-streaming services to the best of their ability. Spotify is looking to recruit a Product Designer to help visualize their car & wearables experience.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced product designer to join our Platform & Partner Experience team who are tasked with considering how to extend our core mobile experience across multiple contexts and device ecosystems, including native desktop, tablets, web player, automobiles, wearables, televisions, speakers, software integrations, and much more.

What You’ll Do

• Be responsible for the design of Spotify’s Partner Platform Experiences; to deepen relationships between artists and fans by extending Spotify into the car via an embedded experience.
• Work with small multi-disciplinary teams made up of representatives from engineering, product, product insights, and marketing, among others.
• You will help set the tone for our partnerships (Google, Amazon, GM, etc.) and advocate for quality when it comes to the Spotify experience as it is represented on external platforms.
• Take into account existing insights, technical constraints, business needs, driver distraction guidelines and specific platform demands to produce data-informed solutions.
• You’ll take full ownership of your work and total responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way, from whiteboard sketching to high-fidelity final treatments.
• Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes, understanding when deeper exploration is warranted and when it is best to change paths and try another approach.

Who You Are

• You have at least 7 years of experience designing at consumer-focused tech or media companies; experience designing in car is a plus
• You are comfortable working closely with teams from companies such as Google and Amazon.
• You’re happy to travel the world to collaborate with our international partners and can be flexible with your working hours.
• You are a talented designer with strong UX and visual design skills
• You have the communication skills to help set up frameworks and brainstorm initial design concepts. Also instrumental is the ability to • speak confidently to your own design work and convince others of your reasoning.
• You have a people-focused design mentality and want to design and build products/features that truly have meaningful impact.
• You have an online portfolio, or PDF that you can share with us. A link to your online portfolio, or a PDF, is required. Applications without a portfolio are unlikely to be considered.
• You are able to provide a brief explanation in your application of why you are excellent for this role, while highlighting your portfolio

Location

Stockholm, Sweden

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YD JOB ALERT: OPPO is looking for an Industrial Designer

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Oppo is at the forefront of the smartphone and consumer electronics movement in the east. A company that has pushed for innovation alongside its sister company Vivo, and is also the parent company of OnePlus, Oppo doesn’t shy away from innovation. With phones that boast of advanced electronics, cameras especially (Oppo is widely considered the selfie expert), and overall builds, Oppo ranks 8th in the world’s top smartphone companies. Their electronics division is also known to make some of the world’s most advanced Blu-ray players as well as headphones and amplifiers. As of yesterday, Oppo’s R15 Pro holds the title of the world’s fastest charging phone, with a charge speed of 0-100% in an impressive 35 minutes (that’s the average length of a TV series episode)!

THE OPPORTUNITY

Here you can come into contact with the cutting-edge design information, cooperate with top R&D team, and have room for diversified growth. Join us now, and you will be able to create next-generation fashionable choicest products with our elite team in Central London!

RESPONSIBILITIES

– Dare to innovate and put forward industry-leading design concepts.

– Cooperate with internal and external teams including product R&D and technology and manufacturing, put forward solutions for product realization, and guarantee perfect realization of design concepts.

REQUIREMENTS

– Bachelor’s degree or above, and a sense of enjoyment and enthusiasm towards design.

– Very high design aesthetic, sensitivity to fashion trends, and artistic tastes.

– Keen insight. Be adept at drawing inspiration from life, art or fashion trends, and searching for design opportunities.

– Strong innovation consciousness, not restricted by existing experience and conventional thinking, and dare to propose innovative design concepts.

– Excellent design presentation capability. Be able to clearly and accurately express design concepts, and perfectly present top design schemes.

– Outstanding hand-drawing and 3D modeling capabilities. Proficient in 2D design software such as CorelDraw/Photoshop and 3D modeling software such as Rhino/ProE/Alias.

– Excellent communication and presentation skills, and team-work spirit.

– Working experience or internship experience with outstanding design teams in the industry will be a plus.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send your CV and portfolio to Juju at zjt@oppo.com
Emails must have the subject title: ‘Freelance design – Your Name (via Yanko Design)’
We will contact you with suitable opportunities.

LOCATION

London, UK.

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YD JOB ALERT: Joseph Joseph is looking for a Freelance Product Designer

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Stop! You’re in the right place! Joseph Joseph, the creators of some of our favorite household products (we’ve showcased a few below) is on the lookout for a freelance product/industrial designer to partner with them on ongoing and future projects. In short, designers need to have a working knowledge of Solidworks (as well as Adobe CS and Keyshot) and need to be proficient in prototyping and foam modeling. Candidates will have week by week availability or can even opt for a rolling contract, making it a perfect (and rather impressive) freelance gig for both professionals and students who want to uplift homes and change lives with innovative ideas and inventive products!

THE OPPORTUNITY

Joseph Joseph is a major brand within the global housewares industry. Specializing in creating contemporary housewares, it has rapidly become known for producing some of the most stylish and technically innovative products on the market.

The company was established in 2003 by twin brothers Richard and Antony Joseph, who both trained and worked in product design before starting the company. Since then they have developed a range of over 500 products, which are now sold in over 100 markets worldwide. The company has experienced rapid growth over the last 5 years and expects that growth to continue.

Joseph Joseph is widely seen as an exciting, dynamic brand with innovative and cult products focused on design and quality. The company has won many design awards in recent years including Red Dot awards.

REQUIREMENTS

– Experience in the field of product / industrial design

– A creative thought process with a self-motivated drive to create ‘big ideas’.

– The ability to challenge conventional thinking, whilst keeping ideas commercial.

– A portfolio showing an inventive nature developing insights into market-ready products.

– An excellent knowledge of manufacturing techniques and processes.

– An excellent working knowledge of Solidworks (Adobe CS and Keyshot on occasion.)

– Strong prototyping skills including card and foam modeling.

– Ideal candidates will have week by week availability or interest in a rolling contract.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send your CV and portfolio to design@josephjoseph.com
Emails must have the subject title: ‘Freelance design – Your Name (via Yanko Design)’
All attachments must be in PDF format and in total under 5MB.

LOCATION

London, UK.
The head office is situated in the London Borough of Southwark in a brand new custom built space. All applicants must be able to work with our team on an in-house basis.

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