Sr. Industrial Designer

Job Description

Primary Function of Position The senior designer reports to the Design Manager. They define and drive new product design at Intuitive.

They collaborate with partners to create innovative human-centered solutions. This improves user experience and company growth.

Essential Job Duties

• Employs a user-centered design process to help teams frame problems and define opportunities.
• Autonomously drives projects or partners with other industrial design team members on projects.
• Works with design managers and design managers on project planning
• Distills technical and ergonomic requirements and develops a range of solutions that synthesize usability, utility, manufacturability, and desirability.
• Works with teams early on to provide user-centered insights and design products. Finds ways to improve processes.
• Collaborates with other UX Team members to create compelling integrated user experiences
• Participates in user research, usability testing, and clinical research labs
• Passionately participates in cross-functional team meetings and other forums and proactively drives efforts forward.
• Utilizes a range of 2D and 3D tools and techniques to develop and communicate design opportunities
• Combines Industrial Design priorities with the priorities of our process partners
• Translates and captures brand attributes in compelling physical forms
• Generates functional and appearance prototypes to conceptually explore and validate design choices

Qualifications

Required Education and Training

• An exceptional portfolio that demonstrates a methodical human-centered design process and delivering successful products from concept to production
• Successfully worked with engineering and product teams to develop designs and bring products to market.
• A comprehensive set of prototyping skills from quick low-fi foam models to fabricating more complex functional learning prototypes.
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills and an ability to effectively communicate a user-centered point of view.
• Exceptional 2D visualization skills, including sketching, storyboarding, and digital rendering.
• Exceptional 3D CAD and visualization skills to develop technically viable and compelling design solutions.
• Extensive experience with SolidWorks is required. Specific experience with complex surfacing is a plus.
• A thorough understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and designing for DFM & DFA considerations
• Experience with medical device design and / or designing regulated products is a plus.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time for case observation.

Required Education and Training

• Minimum Bachelor's degree or higher in Industrial Design
• Minimum 8 years of experience in professional industrial design roles

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Has a passion for designing meaningful, revolutionary products that make an impact on people's lives.
• Has experience leading and driving design efforts from concept to production.
• Is curious about user behaviors and eager to learn in the field and in a lab environment.
• Is excited to work on complex problems with a dedicated team of high-energy, high caliber people
• Approaches work with a strategic, systems-thinking mindset.
• Has a natural aptitude for teamwork, thriving on brainstorming, facilitating, and presenting.
• Has a high capacity for technical problem-solving and execution work?
• Is reliable and dedicated to achieving the highest quality design output.
• Is a highly creative problem solver.
• Learns from, mentors, and inspires other designers.
• Can autonomously work and solve problems and seek out information as needed.
• Takes a bias toward action and an eagerness to support the team and the project.
• Employs healthy organization and communication habits, making you a responsive and exemplary team player.
• Has a refined aesthetic sensibility and artistic skill.
• Has an incurable curiosity relating to all things design.

Additional Information

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and / or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.

Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications.

The target salary ranges are listed.

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and / or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.

Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications.

The target salary ranges are listed.

Base Salary Range Region 1 : $164,000 USD - $236,000 USD

Base Salary Range Region 2 : $139,400 USD - $200,600 USD

Shift : Day

Travel : 10% of the time

Workplace Type : Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.