Senior Industrial Designer

Based in Oakland, California, Enlisted, creates innovative brand experiences for Fortune 500’s and small startups. As a dynamic team of strategists and designers, we are a collaborative studio with a focus on brand and packaging as well as digital and physical product development.

Enlisted Design is seeking a Senior Industrial Designer to join our group of creative minds. We are a passionate team and thrive on highly collaborative relationships with our client partners. This position will provide creative leadership and vision for our product design and cross-functional teams. We match our design solutions to the gestalt of our client’s needs, and are seeking a candidate that can smartly balance technical and aesthetic design to user experience and business objectives.

* Provide vision, creative solutions, and beautiful aesthetics for product design in various industries. * Understand and track design trends, and identify areas of opportunity to expand and stretch conventional approaches. * Relentlessly pursue strategic solutions to client goals. * Demonstrate detailed craftsmanship in sketching and model making. * Able to absorb user needs, technical limitations, mechanical engineering, and client business objectives into design considerations. * Possess an understanding and appreciation for project cycle processes. * Provide guidance for and help facilitate creative collaboration within our cross-functional design teams. * Have strong visual presentation skills with ability to verbally pitch, ideate, and review with internal and external client teams. * Develop and maintain a consistent visual design language across a family of products. * Able to oversee and collaborate with ODMs, JDMs, mechanical engineering, and other experts whose work informs the design. * Show a proactive attitude and team-oriented approach to client projects and studio culture.

**Required qualifications:** * 4+ years of relevant, agency experience. * Mastery of industry standard design software, including 3D CAD (Solidworks and/or Rhino), Adobe Creative Suite, and Keynote. * Hands-on prototyping and model making experience. **Qualifications that are not required, but will strengthen candidacy:** * A willingness to develop and maintain close client relationships. * Experience pitching to clients and/or spec creative development. * Collaboration with Management and Account teams to structure project engagements. * Experience overseeing and mentoring junior staff.