Senior Product (industrial) Designer
Elvie, United Kingdom
Job Description
Life at Elvie - Meaningful work. Exceptional people
We develop extraordinary and smart technologies designed to improve the lives of women. It's a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve the problems that no one else has ever tackled before.
Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected trainer that helps women strengthen their pelvic floor muscle via fun, five-minute workouts. It took the wellness industry by storm and is now available via the NHS Supply Chain. Our street cred is backed up by more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious Red Dot Award and an IDA Design Award.
Our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent hands-free, wearable breast pump, has received international praise, including being listed as one of the Times 100 best inventions in 2019 and ‘Best of the Best’ at the Red Dot Awards 2020.
Our 3rd amp; 4th innovation: Elvie Catch and Elvie Curve launched on 7th October 2020. Elvie Curve uses natural suction to gently express milk during let-down while feeding or pumping from the other breast. It is small, compact, and securely worn in-bra. Elvie Catch, "Stops your leaks, not your day" is a set of two breast milk collection cups with slip-proof silicone skirts designed for total comfort and confidence. Discreet and fuss-free.
Elvie has received more than 30 awards, including being named one of 15 startups To Watch by The Sunday Times and ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in the UK by SyndicateRoom in 2019. Tania Boler has recently been rated as the 8th most influential person shaping British technology in 2019 by Business Insider and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B, the largest ever fundraise in Femtech.
How do we like to work?
You will be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve tough problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women.
We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive:
- We’re fearless - We tackle taboos and break boundaries, requiring sensitivity and courage.
- We’re innovators - We are passionate, curious and data-driven. We are constantly learning how to work smarter, faster and better. Always embracing change and innovation.
- We’re in it together - Together, we are constantly learning, embracing change and seeking innovation, whilst having fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Designer / Industrial Designer to join our team in Bristol.
You are passionate about solving problems and designing highly imaginative and considered products that delight the people that use them. You have an eye for detail and an in-depth knowledge of what’s required to take a concept through development.
You will be working in a fast-paced, innovative and collaborative environment. You’ll bring knowledge of your craft to design ambitious and credible solutions to ensure the products we launch continue to revolutionise markets. Your understanding of the engineering process allows you to ground your design in reality, and be able to collaborate with and articulate your work to creatives, and non-creatives alike. You will be leading the hardware design activities within a multidisciplinary project team.
If you are excited by the idea of working in a scale up, enjoy creating innovative product concepts and have the skills to take these ideas through to production, we would love to hear from you.
What you’ll be doing
- Originate novel concepts, technologies and hardware experiences for our next generation of products and accessories.
- Be actively involved in the gathering and synthesis of user insights in order to translate these into solutions that meet genuine user needs.
- Provide subject matter expertise across a variety of human-centred design and innovation methodologies, to help teams define and ideate on opportunities.
- Generate elegant, considered and refined solutions that satisfy the functional, usability and user experience requirements.
- Communicate and evaluate ideas quickly and effectively using a combination of sketching, CAD, 3D rendering and prototypes.
- Be able to passionately defend ideas that you feel will create the best product for the end user, whilst being open and receptive to input from the wider project team.
- Provide subject matter expertise in creating high-quality CAD surface models that are suitable