Senior Sim Racing Industrial Designer

We are seeking a Senior Industrial Designer to join our team in Landshut, Germany. As a Senior Industrial Designer, you will be responsible for creating innovative and user-focused designs for our sim racing products.

Responsibilities:

• Create fresh, innovative, and sometimes unique ideas that are focused in strategic design thinking.
• Strategically capture data informed by market and user research that will be delivered internally as well as to Executive, Product and Supply teams.
• Explore and create innovative user experiences hinged in the development of the design of hardware, software and gameplay.
• Develop and refine innovative solutions to a final end-user experience.
• Collaborate with a dynamic, cross-functional team during various design development phases.
• Work traditionally and digitally (both 2D and 3D) to develop solutions with a strong emphasis on ergonomics, proportion and refinement of graphic and form.
• Generate artistic, immersive and engaging presentations to senior management.
• Design and build physical and digital prototypes/stimuli of various levels of fidelity.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design or Industrial Design or closely related field.
• 8+ years experience in 2D & 3D digital capabilities with exceptional skill in hand-sketching, conceptual modeling in digital and traditional media.
• 5+ years professional experience of industrial design within the simulation hardware industry, including projects taken from concept to market release.
• Have a formidable portfolio of design and released product.

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree and Master Degree in Product Design, Industrial Design or closely related field.
• Deep understanding of ergonomic hardware design, switches, UX (both functionally, hardware and software).
• Fluency of A-surface and geometry production in 3D CAD.
• Exceptional digital presentation skills in 3D photo-rendering software.
• Strong design development (physical as well as digital sketching) and digital visualization of the design process/design thinking.
• A strong understanding of complex moulding and mechanical design for handheld electronic products.