Senior Industrial Designer (w/m/d), Stuttgart

Permanent employee, Full-time · Stuttgart

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Your mission

Description 

As Senior Industrial Designer, you will create innovative products that are both, meaningful and beautiful. Our ID practice is known across our industry, and you will be part of it! With substantial project experience under the belt, there are few topics or situations that you haven't dealt with before. In your designer role, you are at the height of your craft, and able to build all that you dare imagine. As project lead, you are expert at setting up and managing challenging interdisciplinary projects and clients with zeal, originality and resourcefulness. With your mature personality you come across as considered, balanced and emotionally robust, making you an inspiring adviser in professional and personal matters. 

Tasks 

  • design, plan, articulate and lead complex interdisciplinary client-projects and teams
  • conduct desktop- and qualitative-research, and identify intriguing insights
  • create compelling design-stories and design/brand-strategy frameworks
  • conduct exploration workshops with colleagues and clients
  • explore and generate innovative ideas, and turn them into people-minded concepts
  • participate in design-crits to improve your craft and thinking skills
  • design products and experiences using CC, Rhino, SolidworksKeyshot and Cinema 4D
  • build narratives and presentations that wow clients
Your profile
  • Expertise 

    • 5+ years of industry work experience as an industrial designer in an international setting. Experience with Chinese market/clients would is a plus
    • Natural presence, healthy ambition and high emotional intelligence. people leadership experience is a plus
    • Convincing critical thinking, outstanding creativity and excellent presentation skills
    • Proven ability to design, plan, articulate and lead complex interdisciplinary projects with method and minimal supervision
    • Keen sense for details and outstanding craft skills, particularly hand-sketching, CC, Rhino or SolidworksKeyshot and Cinema 4D. Advanced Powerpoint skills expected
    • Confident coverage of topics beyond your core discipline: e.g. CMF, research, brand-strategy, UX/UI
    • Good verbal and written communication skills in English. German skills are a big plus
Why us?

Offer 

  • Fun and passionate team that places high importance not only on professional skills, but also on great personalities
  • Onboarding program which will prepare you well for your new role and introduction to your new team
  • Flexible office, home-office policy and work-times .
  • Benefits to support a healthy lifestyle, e.g. fitness allowance, home office support
  • Opportunity to receive on- and off-the-job training, as well as travel to events, trade-shows, conferences, and exhibitions
  • Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects with designers, researchers, strategists, technologists and model-makers
  • Regular team-events, both planned and spontaneous: from team-lunches, annual field-trips and X-mas parties, to ad-hoc Karaoke, or the Cannstatter Volksfestes

 

 

About us

PHOENIX is a product innovation studio that turns brands into winners of tomorrow’s wellbeing mega-economy. As an independent, award-winning studio, PHOENIX makes the foggy future visible to its partners, accompanying them from idea to market success. Today, the team of around 70 international design experts reinvent the future of wellbeing in Stuttgart and Shanghai and thus stand for excellent design - as confirmed by over 900 design awards. Since 1987 we have been driven by Logik, Moral und Magie - our design philosophy which sums up our notion of design excellence: lucid solutions with love for humanity and that special something.

Ihre Aufgaben

Description 

As Senior Industrial Designer, you will create innovative products that are both, meaningful and beautiful. Our ID practice is known across our industry, and you will be part of it! With substantial project experience under the belt, there are few topics or situations that you haven't dealt with before. In your designer role, you are at the height of your craft, and able to build all that you dare imagine. As project lead, you are expert at setting up and managing challenging interdisciplinary projects and clients with zeal, originality and resourcefulness. With your mature personality you come across as considered, balanced and emotionally robust, making you an inspiring adviser in professional and personal matters. 

Tasks 

  • design, plan, articulate and lead complex interdisciplinary client-projects and teams
  • conduct desktop- and qualitative-research, and identify intriguing insights
  • create compelling design-stories and design/brand-strategy frameworks
  • conduct exploration workshops with colleagues and clients
  • explore and generate innovative ideas, and turn them into people-minded concepts
  • participate in design-crits to improve your craft and thinking skills
  • design products and experiences using CC, Rhino, SolidworksKeyshot and Cinema 4D
  • build narratives and presentations that wow clients
Ihr Profil

Expertise 

  • 5+ years of industry work experience as an industrial designer in an international setting. Experience with Chinese market/clients would is a plus
  • Natural presence, healthy ambition and high emotional intelligence. people leadership experience is a plus
  • Convincing critical thinking, outstanding creativity and excellent presentation skills
  • Proven ability to design, plan, articulate and lead complex interdisciplinary projects with method and minimal supervision
  • Keen sense for details and outstanding craft skills, particularly hand-sketching, CC, Rhino or SolidworksKeyshot and Cinema 4D. Advanced Powerpoint skills expected
  • Confident coverage of topics beyond your core discipline: e.g. CMF, research, brand-strategy, UX/UI
  • Good verbal and written communication skills in English. German skills are a big plus
Warum wir?

Offer 

  • Fun and passionate team that places high importance not only on professional skills, but also on great personalities
  • Onboarding program which will prepare you well for your new role and introduction to your new team
  • Flexible office, home-office policy and work-times .
  • Benefits to support a healthy lifestyle, e.g. fitness allowance, home office support
  • Opportunity to receive on- and off-the-job training, as well as travel to events, trade-shows, conferences, and exhibitions
  • Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects with designers, researchers, strategists, technologists and model-makers
  • Regular team-events, both planned and spontaneous: from team-lunches, annual field-trips and X-mas parties, to ad-hoc Karaoke, or the Cannstatter Volksfestes
Über uns
PHOENIX ist ein Design- und Innovationsstudio, das Erlebnisse schafft, die Menschen berühren – heute für morgen und immer getrieben von Logik, Moral und Magie. Als unabhängiges, vielfach preisgekröntes Design- und Innovationsstudio macht PHOENIX die oft so neblige Zukunft für seine Partner sicht- und greifbar, und begleitet sie von der Idee bis zum Markterfolg. Heute erfindet das Team von rund 70 internationalen Designexperten in Stuttgart und Shanghai die Zukunft von Wellbeing neu und steht damit für exzellentes Design - bestätigt durch über 900 Designpreise.
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