Industrial Designer
Job Description
Monokoto is a strategic design studio based in London and Copenhagen. We work with ambitious global clients across many sectors including consumer tech, audio/video, aerospace, healthcare and more. This gives us the opportunity to create exciting, groundbreaking designs that make a real difference to people.
Our design practice is holistic and bridges both physical and digital worlds.
Monokoto is looking for a full-time Industrial Designer to work on a diverse range of projects.
You’ll be working within our multi-disciplinary team, and will be collaborating with clients from all over the world.
You'll be involved in the early concept stages of a brief, right through to delivery of highly detailed designs, specifications, prototypes and products. Client-facing experience is important as you'll have frequent interactions with client-side design, technical and business teams. We value people who possess both a strategic and detail-focused mindset, who strive to find beautiful, simple solutions to complex problems.
Your responsibilities will be varied and will include:
- Industrial design - creating concepts, prototypes and detailed designs
- Supplying documentation and detailed files for model makers and clients
- Paper/foam/textile model making, product mock ups
- Conducting material, cultural, and design process research
- Creation of mood boards and image research
- Involvement in workshops, research and testing sessions
- Contributing to the further development of the UX design process
- Liaising with external suppliers
- Activities may extend to any and all media types - print, digital and beyond
- ‘Mucking in’ with general studio tasks and activities
- Many of our clients are international - air travel may be required
Your skills and attributes:
- 4+ years of experience
- Fluent with 2D and 3D CAD design tools: Solidworks, Alias or Rhino and experience with Keyshot prefered
- Sketching and illustration
- Understanding of manufacturing methods, processes, materials
- Diverse experience in product development
- Passionate about solving problems and identifying opportunities to make things better for people
- The ability to think big whilst being detail-oriented and delivery focused
- An excellent communicator - verbally and visually
- Happy to work collaboratively within a team and take sole ownership of a given task to drive projects forward
- Methodical, systematic and structured in the way you work
- Excellent design software skills and the ability to visualise/animate/prototype concepts at varying levels of fidelity to demonstrate and test ideas - whatever tells the story the right way
- Always eager to learn from others and share your knowledge
- Comfortable working from early strategy phases of projects through concept brainstorming and idea development
Salary TBD based on applicant and experience
www.monoko.to