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Junior Designer

This role of Junior Industrial Designer: Group Sky, is fundamentally the creative execution of design work across multiple projects and focuses around three core areas:

Creativity, Craft & Quality

Support the Group Industrial Design Director in shaping the day-to-day design development and execution for Sky, ensuring it’s in line with wider product and brand strategies and constantly striving for excellence.
Identifying relevant consumer trends and be able to translate insights into compelling design strategies.
Show an understanding of product range design, building harmony, consistency and clear purpose across multiple product form factors and functionalities.
Help to build and maintain a material library to inspire material-led design innovation within multi-disciplinary teams.
Ensure efficient design delivery and colour-matching approval process, through clear and timely communication with delivery teams.

Team

Help drive our creative culture by being a highly visible advocate for all things industrial design.
Work closely with all the design team to ensure visibility and provide input into group design critiques.
Champion excellent design, communication, and organization skills as well as the ability to work across teams.

Relationship & Network building

Work with stakeholder groups, suppliers and manufacturers both within and outside the Group Product team.
Advocate the value of User Centred Design practices with stakeholders across the business.
Bring strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work across teams.
Pair effectively with mechanical engineers to help efficiently build designs to the quality and high standards we’re aiming for.

For the role, we are looking for you to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

0 - 3 years’ experience with a specific focus on hardware product development
A Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, product design or similar field.
A proactive, self-driven individual that has an equally strong team ethos
Proficient with the latest rendering and graphics tools and applications (Keyshot, Rhino, Solidworks, Adobe Creative Suite or similar).
Intrinsic passion for seamless hardware/software experiences
A strong portfolio demonstrating breadth and creativity in design, including versatility with prototyping tools and methods. A strong understanding of design research and creative process is required.
Willing to travel overseas.