Lead Industrial Designer

Los Angeles, CA · Onsite

Base salary: $160,000–$195,000 annually

This is an onsite role in Culver City, CA. We welcome candidates outside Los Angeles who can relocate by their start date or on an agreed timeline.

About dot cards

dot.cards is building the platform for what happens after people connect in the real world. We began by making it effortless to share all of your most important info with a tap. With 2.5M+ devices sold and 100M+ in-person connections facilitated, we have an established audience and a foundation for bringing new products to market at scale.

Our next chapter brings together connected hardware and software that help people exchange information, capture conversations, and follow through. From products people carry every day to devices used by teams and businesses, physical design is central to how that experience works and feels. We are a revenue-backed, fast-growing company based in Los Angeles, creating new ways for technology to fit naturally into real-world interactions.

The role

We are hiring a Lead Industrial Designer to own industrial design across dot.cards’ entire physical product lineup. From NFC cards, wearables, and accessories to countertop displays and our unreleased AI hardware, you will shape products that connect the physical and digital experience. You will bring a cohesive design language to the portfolio, its packaging, and future hardware while meeting the needs of each product and its customers.

You will work closely with our product and software teams, engineers, and manufacturing partners to turn ideas into products that are intuitive to use and practical to manufacture. You will set the design direction, guide external partners, and stay hands-on from early concepts through production. This role offers the creative scope to shape new product categories and improve products already used by millions of people.

What you will own

• Own industrial design across our product portfolio and evolve a cohesive design language. Partner with Product to prioritize new concepts, product improvements, and line extensions using customer insight and commercial judgment.

• Turn customer needs into sketches, CAD models, renderings, and physical prototypes. Test form, ergonomics, and usability, and partner with Product, UI Design, and Engineering on the hardware and software experience.

• Own color, material, and finish specifications and reference samples. Improve durability, fit, finish, and feel using customer feedback and testing, and lead packaging, unboxing, and scalable personalization with Brand and Operations.

• Work directly with mechanical and electrical engineers and manufacturing partners on component integration, tooling, assembly, and design for manufacturability. Deliver clear CAD handoffs, finish specifications, cosmetic acceptance criteria, and approved samples.

• Review factory samples from prototype through tooling and production, resolving material, construction, and finish issues. Balance design quality, durability, unit cost, tooling investment, and launch timing with Engineering, Procurement, and Operations.

• Guide external studios and specialists, own priorities and reviews across concurrent projects, and communicate decisions, dependencies, and risks. Build reusable design standards and organized CAD, material, and sample libraries as the portfolio grows.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years of industrial design experience, with multiple consumer products taken from early concept through mass production and clear independent ownership through production.

• A portfolio demonstrating excellent form development, proportions, material selection, and usability. Show multiple shipped products, your specific contribution, and how you resolved manufacturing constraints while preserving design intent.

• Experience leading design across a product family or multiple concurrent products, with a clear point of view on how they belong together

• Strong hands-on CAD, surfacing, rendering, and physical prototyping skills using SolidWorks, Rhino, KeyShot, or equivalent tools

• Practical understanding of injection molding, metal fabrication, surface finishes, tooling, and assembly, and the ability to work through constraints with engineers and manufacturers

• Experience working directly with overseas manufacturing partners, reviewing samples, and resolving issues through production

• The ability to guide external partners while remaining deeply involved in the work, from evaluating concepts to refining small physical details.

• Clear communication, sound commercial judgment, and a collaborative approach to making decisions in a fast-moving company

Nice to have

• Experience with connected devices, consumer electronics, audio products, wearables, or NFC-enabled accessories

• Experience developing packaging and scalable personalization systems across multiple materials and manufacturing processes

• Experience helping a growing brand expand its product portfolio and build an internal industrial design practice

Why join dot cards

You will have the creative ownership to shape a growing product family at a design-first company with an established customer base. Your decisions will influence what people carry, how they interact with dot.cards, and the quality they experience every day. As we enter new categories, you will help define both the products and the design team behind them.

Compensation and location

• Base salary: $160,000–$195,000 annually

• Onsite work environment in Culver City, CA

Equal Opportunity Employer: dot.cards is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation Statement: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If you require assistance or accommodation, please contact [email protected].