Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Ring is seeking a Senior Industrial Designer to help shape the future of home security and neighborhood safety. In this role, you’ll serve as a strategic design leader—driving innovative, user-centered product experiences from early concept through mass production. You’ll anticipate challenges before they arise, define both short- and long-term product vision, and foster cross-functional alignment through bold thinking and hands-on execution. As a key contributor, you’ll proactively identify opportunities for innovation, solve engineering and manufacturing challenges, and ensure design strategy remains aligned with Ring’s mission to make neighborhoods safer. From sketch to production, you’ll unify form, function, and purpose.
Key job responsibilities
- Design Leadership: Take charge of end-to-end industrial design development, owning the creative process and timelines while continuously identifying opportunities to elevate design quality, user experience, and business impact.
- Strategic Vision & Brand Stewardship: Help define and evolve Ring’s long-term hardware design strategy. Champion a cohesive industrial design language that aligns with brand values, user needs, and global market trends.
- Mechanical Design Problem Solving: Collaborate closely with engineering teams to address complex mechanical design challenges with innovative, practical, and scalable solutions—balancing technical feasibility with design intent across multiple product lines.
- CMF Integration: Partner with CMF and engineering teams to embed thoughtful material and finish decisions into each product, proactively proposing innovative solutions that balance durability, cost, and design integrity.
- Engineering & Manufacturing Collaboration: Guide mechanical integration, DFM/DFA efforts, and supplier engagement—ensuring scalable, high-quality production outcomes.
- Prototyping & Validation: Lead fast-paced prototyping loops, using data and user insights to validate and refine design directions. Deliver compelling visualizations that support executive decision-making.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Drive close coordination with global partners across design, engineering, marketing, and program management. Adapt flexibly to shifting priorities, navigating ambiguity with confidence and agility.
- Global Presence & Communication: Represent the industrial design function in cross-regional collaboration. Participate in early-morning or late-evening meetings as needed, and travel 1–2 times per year to key international sites for hands-on collaboration.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Industrial Design or related field.
- 10+ years of experience designing consumer hardware or equivalent.
- Exceptional 2D sketching, storyboarding, and visualization skills.
- Deep expertise in 3D CAD (including class-A surfacing) and design for manufacture.
- Demonstrated strength in solving mechanical design and development challenges.
- Proven ability to communicate clearly and persuasively with executives, peers, and partners.
- Strong portfolio showcasing design leadership and end-to-end execution of complex products.
- Excellent time management and comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Shift work, Afternoon shift, Early shift,