Director Product Development

New York, NY

srch 10450

Is prolific your middle name? Do you live and breathe Design?! Have you made the transition from successful designer to successful manager where your knowledge, instincts and style inspires the people you manage? Do you know that design is headed for a paradigm shift and want to be at the head of the movement?

Then this position may be for you!

Profile:

You’re a visionary known for fostering an open culture of design.

An inspirational leader and communicator, your vision permeates and directs the quality of your team and of your designs.

You have a large porfolio of consumer products that you’ve taken from sketch through to the product development cycle.

An intimate knowledge of the plastics manufacturing process.

You thrive in a lightning paced environment where rapid iteration underpins the multiple projects you manage.

You excel at leading and managing and call on your excellent sketching and hands on skills to communicate to your team.

Brand management is an essential part of your strategic vision and directs the decisions you make even to the smallest product detail

Responsibilities:

Coordinate manufacturing of products to establish quality and best practices.

Manage an aggressive design schedule while meeting production targets.

An excellent mentor who can raise the level of our talented young engineers and designers.

Mediate and educate our vocal and knowledgeable community.

  

Requirements

  • 7-15yrs exp. in a fast paced industrial Design environment
  • Has produced a wide array of successful consumer products
  • Excellent sketching and digital skills
  • 3D knowledge in Rhino and or Solidworks, Hypershot is a plus
  • A keen understanding of the constraints and opportunities that exist in the product development process

Qualified candidates please send your resume and samples (a PDF file under 4mb) and reference the above search number to info@yehideology.com.


Candidates who are not US citizens or permanent residents need to have authorization to work in the US in order to apply.