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Lead Industrial Designer

Salt Lake City, UT

 

Who We Are

WAYB never stops raising the bar on family products that are safer, healthier, and responsibly made. With thoughtful design and materials, we reinvent on-the-go gear to be better for families and the planet - way better. We carry out this mission by supporting and celebrating our people, from those who sew, to those who sell, and everyone in between. From our first product launch in 2019 to being named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces, we’ve built a team of curious creatives, capable makers, and big picture strategists who strive to do things a little differently.

What You’ll Do

As Senior Industrial Designer, you’ll own the design process from concept to commercialization. You’ll be tasked with shaping the long term product design vision as well as the short term implementation of new product briefs. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Product, you’ll deliver sketches, innovative concepts, tested prototypes, and final renderings throughout the commercialization process. This is a rare opportunity to influence a small, nimble innovation lab in Salt Lake City, where you can help to shape the culture, direction, and design language of WAYB’s future.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

● Lead industrial design efforts from concept to commercialization for WAYB and WAYB controlled brands in collaboration with the Sr. Director of Product
● Drive creative problem solving, balancing innovative, visionary ideas with manufacturable, quality, cost-effective, timely solutions
● Provide clear, confident decision making at every stage of design, with strong grasp of how to balance aesthetics, features, cost, sustainability, and performance
● Interpret and implement product briefs
● Analyze user insights, market trends, competitor landscape to identify new product opportunities
● Collaborate closely with engineers, developers, and suppliers to integrate hardgoods and softgoods into high-performing designs
● Present new product design theory, points of differentiation, and update to fit, features, and aesthetic during cross-functional phase gate reviews
● Ensure product designs comply with any new and current federal, state, and third party certification regulation requirements
● Design products and select materials with a focus on sustainability, performance, and quality, ensuring alignment with WAYB's sustainability initiatives
● Create tech pack drawings for new product development handoff
● Serve as a creative force with a positive influence over the future expansion of the WAYB innovation team culture, physical space and professional influence
● Support and actively participate in company and employee initiatives that reinforce and further establish the company’s commitment to people and planet

Who You Are

● Committed to creative collaboration, clear communication of ideas, and short term implementation of long term brand strategies
● Design leader, strategic thinker and hands-on maker
● Passionate about sustainable design, innovation, and new product ideation
● Comfortable working with both hardgoods and softgoods design, with experience ranging from textile knowledge and patterning to molded or machined part design and 3D CAD modeling
● You care about ideas and have the patience, fortitude and vision to see them through

What You’ll Need

● Bachelor’s degree required
● U.S. citizenship or authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship required
● 7 or more years experience in product design, with additional experience in project management, development, or sourcing
● Background check (required, due to user testing with families)
● Willingness to work varied hours to comply with international time zones
● Willingness to travel both domestically and internationally (approximately 10-20% of the time)
● Heavy experience working and communicating across international teams
● Located in, or willing to relocate to, the Salt Lake City, Utah area

Where We Are

This is a full-time hybrid position in our Utah office. This role may require some travel from time to time to effectively carry out the duties and responsibilities of the role.

WAYB, Inc. (“WAYB”) is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. WAYB’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), sexual orientation, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits discrimination based on a perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful.

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