Senior Industrial Designer

Job Description

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Industrial Designer to join our Moen Industrial Design team with a desire to revolutionize the way people experience water in the home. You will have the privilege of collaborating with an award-winning global team to develop meaningful innovations and distinctive collections that serve a wide range of user needs and aspirations. As a Senior Industrial Designer, you will be responsible for leading the highest priority projects and initiatives in the studio and will serve as a mentor to elevate the rest of the global team. Together, we will work towards our Mission Moen goals of saving 1 trillion gallons of water and repurposing 2,000 tons of ocean plastics by the year 2030. As a designer for America's #1 trusted faucet company, your work will positively impact the lives of millions of people across the country and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead industrial designer on cross-functional Moen project teams with design integrity and a passion for meaningful collaboration to balance what is desirable to our end users, what is viable for the business goals, and what is feasible to manufacture.

• Independently lead multiple complex and high priority projects.

• Mentor other industrial designers and actively contribute to and encourage our existing collaborative studio culture.

• Individually lead each phase of the design process across discovery research, initial concept development and testing, final CAD development, and final design story documentation.

• Manage support from other industrial designers as needed with thoughtful delegation skills.

• Initiate thorough design briefs to refine relevant style targets, define user requirements and to communicate necessary design tasks and timelines - enabling upfront alignment across project teams and relevant stakeholders.

• Apply advanced elements of art and principles of design to form, color, finishes and graphics while balancing user-centered functionality and ergonomics.

• Create sketches and 3D prototypes to explore ergonomic, human factors and form issues.

• Develop cohesive product collections that possess shared strong visual collection language elements.

• Define refined concepts with detailed color, material, and finish documentation.

• Communicate with vendors, suppliers, engineering, product owners, and project managers to ensure concepts are clearly understood and enable effective collaboration to refine final CAD models for feasible manufacturing.

• Create presentations that clearly communicate the authentic design story for each project to inform authentic storytelling across all commercialization strategies and marketing content creation.

• Collaborate with consumer insights and user experience teams to actively participate in and promote discovery research and on-trend and design style research to build the "design story."

• Travel domestically and internationally to industry trade shows and design fairs to track global design industry trends and present top opportunities to inspire the business.

• Propel and evolve the Moen visual brand language to meaningfully embody our core values.

• Develop impactful, award-winning designs to elevate the Moen brand.

• Occasionally collaborate with design teams supporting fellow FBIN brands within House of Rohl, Outdoors, Security and Connected Products - creating impactful synergies for the organization.

• Aid Director of Industrial Design to continually research and prioritize the development and implementation of impactful design process improvements to increase efficiency and design maturity for the industrial design team.

• Identify suppliers and serve as a design leader in collaboration with creative organizations outside the company on specific project work.

• Collaborate with leadership in product management, project management, engineering, and manufacturing in giving direction to advance the best design practices in alignment with established Moen corporate business strategies. Use design thinking and design doing methodologies.

• Represent the Moen Industrial Design Team at customer events to introduce new collections, communicate our thoughtful design process, and capture actionable feedback.

• Collaborate with strategy, innovation, and platforms teams to research, prioritize, and visualize the most impactful future-forward innovations and platform improvements that will elevate the Moen brand and the water experiences we are able to deliver to our end consumers.