Senior Manager, Industrial Design
- Atlanta, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead, inspire, and manage a team of Industrial Designers to deliver innovative, consumer-driven product solutions.
- Drive design strategy across multiple brands and categories, ensuring alignment with business goals and consumer insights.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (Marketing, Engineering, R&D, Packaging, and Manufacturing) to bring new products from concept through commercialization.
- Champion design excellence, balancing creativity with feasibility, cost, and brand equity.
- Establish and enforce design standards, best practices, and guidelines to maintain consistency and elevate design quality.
- Translate consumer research, market trends, and brand strategy into compelling product experiences.
- Mentor and develop design talent, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Manage project timelines and resources to ensure successful delivery of design programs.
- Present design concepts, strategies, and final solutions to senior leadership and stakeholders, influencing key business decisions.
- Partner with external design resources and agencies when needed, ensuring seamless integration of design deliverables.
- Advocate for the role of design as a key differentiator and value driver within the business.
- Minimum: Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design
- 10 + years of relevant experience in corporate or consulting design
- 5 years of people management experience
- Ability to travel at least once per quarter
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Champions People Management by defining talent strategy, developing senior designers and emerging leaders, and building culture of psychological safety and continuous learning through data-driven metrics and individualized coaching.
- Shapes Industrial Design Strategic Thinking by uncovering disruptive opportunities and partnering cross-functionally to embed design as lever for business growth and brand distinction. Brings critical thinking to Gen AI as creative partner.
- Exhibits Aesthetic Sensibilities mastery in product form, detailing, and CMF with sophisticated understanding of successful paradigms aligned to brand identity and market positioning.
- Champions Consumer Empathy through designs informed by articulated and unarticulated insights embedded in workflows and proactive research methodology.
- Utilizes Design Context through powerful storytelling that connects emotionally and logically. Leverages visual knowledge for compelling prompts. Expert with LLMs including ChatGPT, MS CoPilot or equivalents
- Has expert Design Feasibility knowledge, ensuring production-ready designs through close engineering/manufacturing collaboration without sacrificing core ideas.
- Demonstrates 2D Design skills with strong sketching and Gen AI exploration. Advanced composition skills. Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, Midjourney, Vizcom or equivalents
- Sound 3D Design skills including intermediate CAD modeling, surfacing, rendering, and NURBS. Hand modelmaking experience. Proficient with SolidWORKS, Rhino, Keyshot, Kaedim or equivalents
- Basic Motion Design skills for animations and video content supporting product storytelling. Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, Runway or equivalents
- Excellent Interaction Design evidenced in usability, interface design, and user-centric experiences through sensory details and testing methods.