BETIC, IIT Bombay

Summary: The industrial designer is typically focused on the user experience, desirability, physical appearance, functionality, and manufacturability of a product, though they are often involved in far more during the development cycle. The designer brings specialized competencies to an interdisciplinary team as they attempt to find solutions for problems of form, function, usability, physical ergonomics, marketing and brand development, sustainability, and sales. Responsibilities: ● Responsible for defining product offerings, form development, human factors and ergonomics, material selection, finishes, color, brand language and graphical user interfaces. ● Support a product development team with visual communication in all phases of the product development process. ● Act in the role of the product development team’s synthesizer, using a diverse set of design tools and methods to create probes for the purpose of gaining valuable feedback from the team and customers. A designer should be quick to action and create concepts through sketching, visual storytelling, and physical prototypes. ● Develop and facilitate research to gain key end user insights for concept generation and design usability validation. ● Actively participate in strategic discussions/planning regarding product development and development direction. ● Inform the project team of key trends in design-related topics such as product design, color, materials and finishes. Assure product concepts proposals are inclusive of market winning attributes consistent with, or inspired by, global design and technology trends. ● Manage the external design partners when necessary. Qualifications and Experience: ● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Industrial Design or Product Design. ● Minimum of 1 year of professional industrial or medical device design experience. ● Must be fully proficient in CAD surfacing and parametric modeling software such as Solidworks, Creo, Rhino, Blender, etc. ● Very good Keyshot rendering and 3D visualization skills and experience. ● Excellent working proficiency with the Adobe creative suite (Photoshop and Illustrator are essential) ● Good Industrial design sketching and oral and verbal presentation techniques to communicate ideas. ● Must have excellent communication skills to lead conversations, solve technical challenges, and mentor and facilitate discussions with other clients on design- related challenges and innovative opportunities. ● Very good CAD model-making skills are required to communicate the product look and feel of designs. Location: BETIC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India