If you are looking for a fresh challenge or know someone who fits the
bill - I am looking to hire a Product Design Engineer & Senior
Industrial Designer to fill out my team for the start fo 2007.
Please read descriptions below . Best to contact me by email i f you
have interest!
John E. Johnston
Principal, Product Design
(Product Design, Class '88)
Lab126 | 650 Castro Street - Suite 450, Mountain View CA 94041 |
jjohnst@lab126.com
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Title: Senior Industrial Designer
Location: Mt. View, CA
Company: Lab126
Lab126 develops innovative consumer electronic products. As Senior
Industrial Designer at Lab126 you will engage with an experienced
cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design and bring to market
innovative consumer products. You will be focused on establishing a
design language and championing its application across a variety of
assets. You will communicate a strong point of view, while
demonstrating the skills to work closely with an internal
inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to influence and develop
product definition, design and end user experience. You must be
responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative
peer environment.
As elements of your daily work, you will:
- Establish and provide a key role in communicating, responding and
integrating design direction with Senior Management.
- Collaborate with our Marketing, Engineering, and Human Interaction
teams to define and drive design solutions to meet product development
objectives, and shape our customers experience through all aspects of
packaging, device interaction & form.
- Lead and coordinate multiple projects. Build a flexible team of
in-house talent & world-class consulting resources as well as driving
communication and overseeing output of top-tier manufacturing
partners.
- Work hands-on, in a variety of media (CAD, Sketching, Modeling,
etc.) to explore concepts and advance design development of current
projects.
Required Experience:
- Bachelors in ID or equivalent
- 5 or more year's experience in industrial design
(CE or Hand-held Product experience a plus)
- Excellent visualization & communications skills; verbal, sketching,
2-D illustration & 3-D development.
- Demonstrated experience with plastic, metal and other high volume
consumer grade processes and materials,
- Knowledge of soft-goods, graphic design and packaging conception and
development.
- Demonstrated experience integrating and communicating front end
research to establish design language and to focus specific
developments efforts.
- Current 3D CAD development skills (Alias, Rhino, ProE) & experience
integrating with Mechanical Databases.
Skills/Experience: The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong
curiosity and energy for all aspects of Design, from front-end
research though detail communications and hands-on development to
production. She/He wants to fulfill a broad role in developing
product concepts, materials, packaging, and accessories on a diverse
team, while maintaining hands-on responsibilities to meet key product
deliverables while leading efforts to establish corporate strategy and
design image.
Education: Bachelors degree with a focus on Personal or Consumer Products.
This position will require international travel.
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Title: Product Designer
Location: Mt. View, CA
Company: Lab126
Lab126 develops innovative consumer-centric product solutions. As a
Product Designer at Lab126 you will engage with an experienced
cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design and bring to market
innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal
inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to influence and develop
product definition and design development. You must be responsive,
flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer
environment.
As elements of your daily work, you will:
- Collaborate with our Marketing, Engineering and Operations teams to
define and drive detail design solutions to meet product development
objectives.
- Provide analysis and support to meet business objectives for your projects.
- Work closely within our engineering team to investigate and define
appropriate technologies to deliver an exceptional end-customer
experience.
Required Experience:
- BSME or equivalent, MS Preferred
- 2 or more year's experience in product design (CE or Hand-held
Product experience a plus)
- Strong analytic/problem solving skills
- Demonstrated experience with plastic, metal and other high volume
part design & production
- Demonstrated experience integrating component modules (I/O,
Displays, Batteries, etc.)
- Exposure to Product level validation testing (Thermal, EMC/EMI,
Shock, Cycle Testing, etc.)
- ProEngineer CAD fluency (Surfacing, Mechanism or Structural Analysis helpful)
* Mandarin language skills a benefit.
Skills/Experience: The ideal candidate should demonstrate a strong
working knowledge of mechanical systems, desire to learn from new
challenges the problem solving & communication skills to work within a
highly interactive and experienced team. CAD skills are important,
but candidates must show a hands-on passion for their work, and must
be able to communicate their ideas and concepts verbally and visually.
Finally, Candidates must demonstrate an ability to integrate feedback
and adaptability to quickly changing contexts and working
environments.
Education: Bachelors degree with technical focus, Masters Degree Preferred
This position will require international travel.
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