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Senior Industrial Designer

🏢 Ideo · 📍 Shanghai, China
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

In a nutshell:

IDEO (Shanghai) is in search of a Senior Industrial Designer who will create product designs and experiences that have a genuine impact on people’s lives, can generate ideas quickly without a lot of parameters, and lead clients and teams through the industrial design phase of a project.

Why is this role important for IDEO’s work?

A Senior Industrial Designer makes the biggest impact by strengthening the Industrial Design point of view at IDEO through work across a range of projects, from product interaction to software tools and applications to the web. Their skillset is critical to our business because they are able to work across disciplines, bringing their perspective to every project.  We count on them to create tangible design expressions, and communicate the essence of these ideas.

Once here you will:

  •     Work with people that come from diverse backgrounds (like design researchers, communication designers, business designers, and interaction designers)
  •     Get exposure to and involved with all aspects of the design process: user research, brainstorming, concept development, prototyping, working with engineers and manufacturers and design stewardship
  •     Go out in the field and build empathy with a user through activities
  •     Become a part of a culture that lets you both learn and teach while working with people outside of your immediate area of expertise

What does IDEO offer you?

IDEO is a place unlike any other. It’s a place where you can solve diverse, complex challenges for our clients or the organization, alongside thoughtful, intelligent individuals who lead with curiosity, empathy, and optimism. Sure we work hard, but we also intentionally craft moments that allow our community to pause, create, and connect. We encourage our community to bring their whole selves to work, respect the need for work-life b

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating human-centered design capabilities, collaborative synthesis of ambiguous problems, and the humility to prototype and fail fast.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Being overly attached to one's own ideas rather than embracing team iteration and user feedback.
  • 2. Approaching design through a purely aesthetic lens without grounding it in rigorous behavioral insights and business viability.
  • 3. Arrogance or lack of self-awareness during collaborative workshop or critique rounds.
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I leverage human-centered design to cut through ambiguity, translating deep user empathy into tangible, game-changing prototypes.

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