[Hiring] Director, Industrial Design @True Anomaly

Role Description

Leaders like you are essential to this mission – to inspire, define, and build. This is some of the most meaningful work you’ll ever do, in an industry devoted to protecting the people you care about.

We’re looking for an inspirational creative leader to found our industrial product design function and build the team around it. With a well-established and growing software design team, we’re now turning our attention to our critical hardware needs. You’ll sit alongside the engineers designing and building spacecraft and space-based interceptors, bringing your design aesthetics to the toughest hardware problems around, designed to operate flawlessly in the most challenging domain.

You’ll report directly to our Creative Director who’s building this function for people who care as much about the craft as the mission.

Responsibilities

• Establish industrial design at True Anomaly: the function, the standard, and the working relationship with hardware engineering.
• Own the design language of our hardware products through your team and your personal work.
• Champion great design across the company by demonstrating its value and advocating to our exec and engineering teams.
• Hire and lead a high-performing team of industrial and product designers.
• Visualize visually stunning new concepts designed to start conversations and inspire.
• Bring design into engineering and architecture decisions early, working with product engineering leadership to influence and build great design into our hardware from the beginning.

Qualifications

• We hire for talent and potential, not pedigree.
• Show us a portfolio of hardware you led or shaped, with a clear account of what you decided and why.
• Demonstrate experience leading designers, from hiring to mentoring.
• Fluency with engineering constraints; you’ll be working with people solving structural, thermal, and other problems.
• Consumer, automotive, aerospace, robotics, medical, and industrial equipment backgrounds all fit; defense and space knowledge is great, we don’t expect it.
• An active security clearance is a bonus, not a requirement.

Requirements

• Leverage your experience to work quickly and efficiently; we’re a lean team, everyone needs to pitch in and move fast.
• Take ownership of design programs and see them through concept to final execution.
• If you like this role but your skills or experience don’t quite fit, apply anyway, or look at our other hardware design role and see if that’s a better match: SENIOR/STAFF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER.

Compensation

• Base Salary: $205,000 - $320,000.
• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave.
• Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Additional Requirements

• Successful candidates will be located near Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO; however, we would consider remote within the US for the right candidate.
• Work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
• The physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting, and driving.