Sr. Industrial Designer

Fieldpiece Instruments • Full-time • Orange, California, United States • $110k - $125k / year • 1d ago

Fieldpiece is hiring a talented and experienced Senior Industrial Designer to lead our design efforts and shape the aesthetic and functional aspects of our innovative product lineup. You’ll play a key role in creating exceptional designs that resonate with our customers, align with our brand identity, and elevate the user experience.

Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in SoCal in 2023 & 2024, Fieldpiece has been delivering rugged, professional-grade, and feature-rich tools and testing instruments to HVACR technicians since 1990. HVACR pros trust us to help them do their jobs better, faster, and easier with tools like spanning meters, manifolds, leak detectors, scales, and more. Awarded the Kepner-Tregoe Critical Thinking Cultural Excellence Award, we utilize this framework to enable clear thinking skills to flourish.

The ideal candidate has over seven years of experience in industrial design and a proven ability to create precise, high-quality 3D designs with complex surfaces for injection-molded products. You’re creative, innovative and focused on the user experience. You’ve worked with mechanical and electrical products and understand how to accommodate their functions in the design. Finally, you have excellent communication skills to work across the organization and with external designers and suppliers.

We offer a hybrid, flexible work schedule with 2 remote days/week, a hire-to-retire philosophy that encourages career growth, a music room with guitar, piano, and voice instructors, and a kitchen full of snacks to keep you charged throughout the day. We're a team of innovators where curious experimenting is celebrated, learning is encouraged, and initiative is rewarded.

What You’ll Do

Develop and communicate a clear design strategy and vision that aligns with the overall product and brand objectives of Fieldpiece Instruments.
Lead the design and development of new products from concept through production, ensuring they meet functional, aesthetic, and ergonomic requirements.
Foster a culture of innovation, continually exploring new materials, technologies, and design trends to drive product excellence and differentiation.
Advocate for the user throughout the design process, conducting user research and translating insights into design solutions that enhance usability and user satisfaction.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, marketing, and product management, to ensure seamless integration of design elements into the product development process.
Participate in design reviews and work collaboratively to address feedback and refine design concepts. Showcase reasoning behind design decisions.
Create high-quality prototypes and mock-ups to visualize and validate design concepts, iterating, and refining designs based on feedback and testing results.
Develop and maintain design standards and guidelines, ensuring consistency and coherence across all Fieldpiece Instruments products.
Work closely with external vendors and suppliers, providing design direction and ensuring design intent is preserved throughout the manufacturing process.
Manage multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring timely and successful delivery of designs within project timelines and budget constraints.

What You Bring

Bachelor's degree in industrial design, product design, engineering or a related field.
7+ years of relevant experience in industrial design, with a strong portfolio showcasing a variety of products designed from concept to production.
Strong mechanical aptitude.
Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite, SolidWorks, Figma, and KeyShot.
Experience delivering flawless 3D models of complex surfaces to be used in injection molding.
Strong understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and production technologies relevant to the consumer electronics or industrial equipment industry.
Exceptional ability to develop innovative solutions via creativity and perspective fluidity.
Excellent ability to illustrate ideas appropriately, from concept sketches to customer-facing images in marketing material.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts effectively to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Experience working in an open-minded, collaborative environment and providing mentorship to junior designers.
Ability to travel 2-3 weeks/year nationally and internationally to meet suppliers, conduct customer research, and participate in trade shows/conferences.

Excellent benefits!

Matching 401k up to 4% with immediate vesting.
Healthcare premiums are covered at 80% for you and your family with HSA and FSA options.
Supplemental Term Life, Employee Assistance Programs (EAD), and more.
Hire to Retire philosophy that includes personal career development plans.
Bonuses based on company and personal performance.
Music program that pays for onsite guitar and piano lessons for you and your family - take a break in the music room!

Our values drive everything we do and our culture.

We are a TRIBE.

Our collective growth starts with individual growth.

We are fully engaged and empowered, collaborating to achieve our common mission.

Our people are central in making Fieldpiece the best place we will work, ever.

We do the UPFRONT HOMEWORK.

We are prepared before coming together to move forward effectively.

We begin with the end in mind by understanding The Why upfront, visualizing, researching, and acting.

We address obstacles head-on with creativity, grit and tenacity, while having fun along the way.

We deliver the RIGHT STUFF.

We deliver innovative solutions by seeing the world through the eyes of our customers.

Our culture of purposeful critical thinking leads to greatness now, rather than perfection never.

We earn TRUST.

We prove our credibility, reliability, and genuine interest in others to build lasting relationships.

Our tribe, partners, end users, suppliers and channel partners can rely on us to listen, act with integrity, and deliver quality.

We are LEAN.

We never stop searching for a better way.

We get started, fail fast, and move forward.

Our actions deliver valuable results.

We leave our EGO at the door.

We are unconcerned to be judged by the questions we ask.

With humility, we value and pursue ideas and feedback from everyone.

Our personal success is derived from the tribe’s success.

The California base annual salary range for this role is currently $110,000-125,000 + bonus. Pay scales are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members. We can share more information about our bonus program and benefits during the hiring process.

EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability