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Industrial Designer

Location
London
Salary
Undisclosed
Level
Senior, Midweight
Type
Full Time
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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