Senior Industrial Designer

Lasko Products, a market leader for nearly 120 years in home comfort products, including portable fans, heaters and air purifiers, is seeking a Sr. Industrial Designer based in our West Chester, PA headquarters.

As a Senior Industrial Designer, you’ll lead the design vision for new and existing products—from sketch to shelf. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, and manufacturing teams to create products that are innovative, user-friendly, and aesthetically compelling. This is a hands-on role for a designer who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and enjoys owning projects end-to-end.

This role will report to Director of Industrial Design. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Create user-centered design concepts by considering customer and consumer feedback, metrics, and usability findings
• Understand user needs, technical limitations, cost targets, timelines, and business objectives.
• Ability to hand sketch concepts to communicate initial designs
• Create detailed 3D form designs in CAD to share with mechanical engineers for component integration.
• Working collaboratively with the mechanical engineering team to ensure product manufacturability and integrity
• Driving design innovation, identifying and solving complex design challenges, and developing creative solutions. 
• Create user-centered design concepts by considering customer and consumer feedback, metrics, and usability findings
• Participating in and utilizing user research, customer research, and useability studies to inform design decisions. 
• Expertise creating high quality renderings using tools such as Keyshot, Solidworks Visualize or equivalent to communicate design concepts
• Clearly communicating design concepts and decisions to stakeholders through presentations, technical documents, and drawings.  
• Creates Manufacturing Documentation specifications: Material, Color and Finish
• Mentoring the junior design staff and assisting them understanding our process and brand
• Build concept and presentation prototypes as needed
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure designs are feasible, manufacturable, and meet cost targets

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in industrial design, product design and 7+ years of professional experience
• Strong Problem-Solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Proficient in 2D/3D tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, SolidWorks, Rhino, KeyShot, Fusion 360)
• Strategic and tactical thinking
• Proven track record of bringing products to market in mass production.
• Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing for consumer experiences
• Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements with little supervision
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with engineers for implementation of designs
• Self-motivated to complete all task required of the job and high attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint