Job Description
Why join us? At Design Within Reach, home comes first. We believe in creating and sourcing pieces that move with you and are meant to be enjoyed over a lifetime - from home to home, generation to generation. For us, that means exceptionally crafted, built-to-last, and beautifully designed furnishings.
Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It's the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Design Within Reach means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Design Within Reach to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.
About This Opportunity: Design Within Reach is looking for an industrial or furniture designer to join our team to design product across furniture, lighting, and textiles.
This role will be focused on developing new design concepts, bringing expertise in ideation through sketching, developing CAD drawings, hands-on prototyping, and documentation of technical details. This designer will attend meetings and maintains close collaboration with cross-functional teams, external partners, and manufacturers, ensuring maintenance of the company's ethos through effective communication, proactive research, creative thinking, problem solving, and organizational skills.
What you'll do: Research: Find innovative and sustainable new materials, finishes and mechanisms, consulting with partners across the MillerKnoll enterprise.
Design: Concept development, visual communication, and creation of 3D and 2D files, with exceptional skills in digital rendering and hand sketching.
Collaboration: Work closely with internal design, merchandising, and product development teams to bring new and innovative design concepts to market. This role will facilitate communication cross-functionally, and proactively contribute to creative thinking and technical knowledge.
Mechanical Aptitude: Maintain technical specifications and requirements, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with industry standards. Produce technical drawings ensuring compliance with manufacturing standards and design guidelines. Attention to detail and accuracy ensuring up-to-date information and accessibility of drawings.
Growth Mindset: Identify opportunities to enhance company processes, improve accuracy, and streamline workflows to deliver to the studio's highest design standards.
Industry Savvy: Stay updated on new products entering the market and research archival designs to ensure authenticity within our product line. Research innovative and sustainable new materials, finishes, manufacturing techniques, and mechanisms, consulting with partners across the MillerKnoll enterprise. Have awareness of industry standards in architecture, design, furniture, and consumer products, across macro and emerging trends to drive innovation and enhance design capabilities.
Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design or related field required.
- Recent grad or professional with 1-2 years of experience, with eagerness to gain experience in project management best practices and processes.
- Excellent 3D modeling (Fusion 360 or Blender preferred), and Adobe Creative Suite skills.
- Excellent visual communication skills across 2D and 3D platforms, both digital and physical.
- Excellent creative thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Understanding of design principles, aesthetics, cultural trends, and design history.
- Positive and professional attitude, with a willingness to learn.
- Understanding of manufacturing and craft techniques (with preferred hands-on experience with sewing, wood working, metal working, ceramics, or other)
- Experience working in cross-functional team environments.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to investigate and analyze information to make recommendations
- Must be flexible and adaptable to changes in business, corporate, or project strategy.
- Demonstrated growth potential and market research experience preferred.
Who We Hire? Simply put, we hire everyone. Design Within Reach is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We're committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.
A starting compensation range for this role is $53,600.00 - $66,725.00. Relevant salary considerations will include candidate qualifications and experience, other business/organizational needs and market factors . You may also be eligible to receive a geographic premium, annual discretionary incentive and equity awards which are subject to the rules governing these programs. The company offers a full spectrum of benefits including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Vacation and Parental Leave), Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our associates.
This organization participates in E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification. In general, MillerKnoll positions are closed within 45 days and are open for applications for a minimum of 5 days. We encourage our prospective candidates to submit their application(s) expediently so as not to miss out on our opportunities. We frequently post new opportunities and encourage prospective candidates to check back often for new postings.
MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at careers_help@millerknoll.com.
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