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Senior Industrial / Product Designer (m/f/d)

Stark 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

Onsite Full-time Senior

The Senior Industrial/Product Designer will drive end-to-end industrial design for physical products, focusing on concept development, detailing, and refinement. They will also create high-end renderings and visualizations for internal alignment and presentations.

Responsibilities

  • Personally drive end-to-end industrial design for physical products: concept, form development, detailing, and refinement
  • Develop high-quality NURBS CAD data using tools like Plasticity 3D, SolidWorks, Rhino, etc., suitable for engineering collaboration and manufacturing discussions
  • Design complex, high-quality surfaces with a strong understanding of continuity, transitions, and visual precision
  • Define ergonomics, physical interaction, and operator-centered workflows
  • Translate product strategy and functional requirements into clear, buildable design solutions
  • Create high-end renderings and visualizations (e.g. Blender, KeyShot) for internal alignment, partners, and presentations
  • Develop and maintain product livery systems, including graphics, typography, icons, and surface language
  • Support UI/UX teams with hardware-related interaction concepts and system ideation (no coding required)
  • Contribute to event-space concepts, spatial visuals, and executive-level presentation layouts
  • Work closely with engineering, understanding basic mechanics, materials, tolerances, and manufacturing constraints to resolve design challenges pragmatically
  • Track and integrate trends from tech, outdoor equipment, fashion, AI, art, and contemporary design

Requirements

  • 6–10+ years of experience in industrial or product design with shipped physical products
  • Strong hands-on expertise in NURBS-based CAD and complex surface modeling
  • Proven ability to design within real-world engineering and manufacturing constraints
  • Solid understanding of ergonomics, interaction design, and functional product architecture
  • Strong visualization and rendering skills
  • Excellent eye for graphic design, typography, and product branding/livery
  • Comfort working independently, structuring ambiguity, and taking ownership through execution
  • Interest in mechanics, materials, and engineering principles is a strong plus
  • Portfolio demonstrating clean, modern, high-quality hardware design and execution depth

Key Skills

  • Industrial design
  • Product design
  • NURBS-based CAD
  • Complex surface modeling
  • Ergonomics
  • Interaction design
  • Functional product architecture
  • Visualization
  • Rendering
  • Graphic design
  • Typography
  • Product branding/livery
  • Mechanics
  • Materials
  • Engineering principles
  • Plasticity 3D
  • SolidWorks
  • Rhino
  • Blender
  • KeyShot
  • Figma
  • Adobe XD
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • After Effects
  • InVision
  • Framer
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Design Thinking
  • User-Centered Design
  • User Research
  • Usability Testing
  • A/B Testing
  • Prototyping
  • Wireframing
  • Design Systems
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Mentoring

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Opportunity to work on high-performance systems
  • Collaborative team environment

About Stark

STARK is a new kind of defence company, delivering the systems that Europe and NATO need now. Get in touch with us at media@stark-defence.com.

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