Senior Manager Industrial Design

Job Description

Sandisk is looking for a Senior Manager of Industrial Design to lead a global industrial design team focused on creating world‑class consumer storage products. This role is ideal for an experienced design leader who is passionate about elevating brand identity, creating delightful experiences, and enabling seamless execution from concept to mass production.

You will champion design excellence across the entire Sandisk consumer portfolio, partner closely with cross‑functional teams, and help strengthen Sandisk’s leadership in consumer technology design and user experience.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of industrial designers across multiple sites. Inspire and enable the team to continue elevating their craft.
   
• Drive industrial design direction across a range of product categories, including portable & desktop SSDs, USB drives, memory cards, readers, and accessories.
   
• Oversee the end‑to‑end creative process: project planning, insights gathering, concept development, design refinement, and production readiness.
   
• Ensure industrial design is cohesive with the overall Sandisk brand through collaboration with Visual Identity and other creative teams.
   
• Partner with product management team to drive product innovation to translate new technologies into innovative user experiences.
   
• Collaborate with insights and product marketing leadership to evaluate and develop solutions for specific user segments and use cases.
   
• Support the team in maintaining design integrity through all phases of development, including DFM, tooling, and production builds.
   
• Drive continuous improvement in team output by identifying new tools, processes, resources, and training.
   
• Coordinate team logistics, such as budget and oversight of vendors and contractors.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial design or equivalent. 
   
• Must have 10-15+ years of industrial design experience in high-volume consumer products with 5+ years of people leadership experience.

• Expert-level skills in digital tools such as 3D CAD (SolidWorks), 3D renderings (Keyshot), Adobe Creative Suite, and MSFT Office.
   
• Ability to guide designers, extended team members, and stakeholders through the end-to-end industrial design process.
   
• Exceptional verbal, visual, and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences.
   
• Ability to facilitate solutions to complex problems with engineering, operations, and supplier teams.
   
• Ability to lead a team on large number of projects while ensuring design and business goals are met.

• Demonstrate qualifications with a portfolio of leadership and hands-on design across a wide range of high-volume consumer products.

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 07/01/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.