Senior Industrial Designer/Product Designer

Join a leading retail trade and shopper marketing agency as their Senior Industrial Designer/Product Designer.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Design team and manage the day-to-day running of the Design Studio
• Manage the intake of workload for the Design team and ensure all projects deadlines are met timeously
• Manage projects scopes, timelines and budgets for projects
•  Clearly communicate client needs to your team to ensure that output produced meets with agreed briefs
• Build trusting and collaborative relationships with account teams assigned to a brand, ensuring all stakeholders are clearly aligned with design output
• Building relationships with their Clients, being able to manage expectations and provide them with services that exceed their expectations
• Industrial designing and client presentations

Requirements

• A minimum of 5-7 years’ experience as a Senior Industrial Designer
• Must have a conceptual industrial/product designer qualification
• Ability to come up with creative concepts and effectively present to clients in keeping with client briefs
• Ability to lead and inspire a Design team
• Ability engage with senior stakeholders (external and internal) and manage expectations
• Competent at explaining ideas to people with varying levels of technical knowledge
• Competent in raster, vector and 3D design tools, including ,but not limited to; Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, (3D Studio Max, V-Ray preferable but not essential) and Office basics
• Experience with gaming engines would be fantastic (Unreal, etc)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – verbal and visual
• An ability to learn quickly, think fast and deliver solutions
• Excited about embracing new procedures and technologies
• Highly creative and conceptual capabilities