Senior Industrial Product Designer

Bevi Mission and Product Description

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Bevi is on a mission to disrupt the beverage supply chain and replace single-use water bottles with beverage machines that provide on-demand flavored and sparkling beverages. As the market leader in IoT-enabled beverage machines, we’ve raised over $160M in venture capital and we have grown tremendously each year since launch. In addition to maintaining high growth with our current product line, Bevi continues to invest in new product development. We are a design-led, fast-paced multidisciplinary team that puts the customer first in our journey to disrupt the beverage industry.

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Senior Industrial Designer Position

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We are seeking a well-rounded Senior Industrial Designer to join our Product Team reporting to the Head of Product and Cofounder. As a Senior Industrial Designer, you will lead design and research activities from market research and customer interviewing, through concept development to product launch. You will collaborate with Product Management, UI/UX Designers, Engineers and Program Managers closely to bring to life future machine iterations. You design for our brand experience: innovative, easy and delightful to use, approachable look and feel, and thoughtfully designed for all our stakeholders from office drinkers to service technicians.

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If you have the desire to work for a design-led company where the vision of the product leads the way and you want to have a large impact, this could be a great role for you! Please include a portfolio with your application.

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Responsibilities

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• Conduct user research in the field on a regular basis with our customers to build empathy, gain insights into user needs, synthesize the learnings, and translate them into design improvements.
• Conduct research and stay updated on industry trends, materials, and technologies to inspire cutting-edge designs.
• Conduct up front competitive analysis and customer research on form factors, features and requirements specific to concepts we are looking to develop.
• Lead the design of updates to our Bevi machine from concept to production.
• Develop and present innovative product concepts through sketches, 3D models, prototypes, and presentations.
• Collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers, UI/UX Designers and other departments.
• Ability to balance delivering on brand/user experience and delivering on business needs.

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Requirements

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• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, or similar discipline.
• 5+ years of experience taking concepts to production.
• Interdisciplinary team experience, especially hardware engineering.
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, driven to continuous improvement, highly organized.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating a history of problem solving, good design sense, sketching ability, form development, mockup and prototyping skills, and user research techniques.
• Ability to understand and create user flows and think holistically about improving experiences across various touch points.
• Strong aesthetics, branding and graphic design skills.
• Skills in areas of consumer/user research and analysis, personas and customer journeys, ideation and brainstorming techniques, prototyping and concept validation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Thrives in fast-paced startup environment.
• Familiar with Adobe Creative Suite and Keyshot rendering software (or equivalent).
• Project management experience is a plus.
• Understanding of the manufacturing process.
• Solidworks experience.
• Ability to travel or be in field 10% of the time.

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Benefits

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• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer.
• 401(k) with company match, and environmentally responsible investment options.
• Flexible PTO plus 9 company holidays, and additional paid days for sick leave, etc (including sustainability or social justice volunteer events).
• Generous fully paid parental leave for both birth parents and non-birth parents.
• Fully employer paid disability and life insurances.
• Wellness and fitness reimbursements.
• Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs.
• Onsite snacks and (of course) unlimited Bevi ... plus composting and terracycling, too.
• Happy hours, pancake breakfasts, Hero awards - and more!

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Bevi Core Values

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• Put Customers First.
• Be Great to Work with.
• Raise the Bar Together.
• Act Like You Own the Business.
• Be Curious and Ask Why.
• Champion Sustainability.