Responsibilities

Create product designs and experiences with meaningful impact.
Generate ideas quickly with limited parameters.
Lead clients and teams through the industrial design phase of projects.
Strengthen IDEO's industrial design perspective across diverse projects, including product interaction, software tools and applications, and the web.
Create tangible design expressions and communicate the essence of design ideas.
Collaborate with design researchers, communication designers, business designers, and interaction designers.
Participate in user research, brainstorming, concept development, prototyping, work with engineers and manufacturers, and design stewardship.
Conduct field activities to build empathy with users.
Work across disciplines and contribute to a culture of learning and teaching.

Requirements

Knowledge of manufacturing processes and experience working closely with engineers.
Experience delivering engineering drawings and specifying CMF (colors, materials, and finishes).
Excellent storytelling and narrative skills, especially regarding industrial design craft.
Outstanding communication, presentation, and design-team collaboration skills.
Strong visualization skills, including quick concept sketching, presentation sketching, 3D CAD modeling, and rendering.
Experience with CAD software such as SolidWorks, Rhino, or Fusion 360, or similar programs.
Experience with rendering tools such as KeyShot, Cinema 4D, or similar programs.
Resume, cover letter, portfolio, and response to the design-question prompt are required.
Portfolio must include at least four work-related projects and explain the development process.

Opportunities to work on diverse, complex client and organizational challenges alongside multidisciplinary colleagues.
Supportive culture emphasizing curiosity, empathy, optimism, learning, collaboration, work-life balance, autonomy, and community connection.