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Product Designer (Acoustics)

Uplift Desk 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America

Onsite $90,000 - $110,000 Full-time Senior

Lead the end-to-end design and development of acoustic products, from initial concept through to production-ready documentation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet structural, manufacturing, and cost requirements while evolving the product line's design language.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of acoustic products from concept through production
  • Define and evolve the design language of the acoustic product line
  • Create 3D models, prototypes, and production-ready designs
  • Research and test materials for acoustic performance, durability, and cost
  • Design modular and user-friendly installation systems
  • Ensure products meet structural, manufacturing, and cost requirements
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering and sourcing
  • Identify and evaluate manufacturing partners
  • Monitor market trends and competitor products to inform and evolve product strategy

Requirements

  • 5+ years of product design experience, with a focus on acoustic products or similar categories
  • Strong proficiency in SolidWorks and visualization tools (KeyShot, Adobe Creative Suite)
  • Solid understanding of acoustic principles, including sound absorption and diffusion
  • Experience designing for manufacturing, including materials, cost, and scalability considerations
  • Portfolio demonstrating strong design thinking, material exploration, and execution

Benefits

  • A merit-based environment that rewards growth and accomplishment regardless of seniority
  • Generous paid time off
  • 4% 401K company matching with instant vesting (after one year)
  • Excellent group health insurance available to employees and dependents
  • Flexible spending account (FSA) for health care and child care costs
  • Company-paid & Supplementary Life Insurance; Long-term & Short-term disability
  • Free UPLIFT Desk (after one year)
  • 50% discount on all UPLIFT products
  • Free healthy (and not so healthy) snacks and drinks
  • On-the-job training and skills development
  • A supportive and engaging work culture that promotes healthy living

Key Skills

Product Design Acoustic Design SolidWorks KeyShot Adobe Creative Suite Design Thinking Material Exploration Manufacturing Materials Science Cost Analysis Scalability Design Language 3D Modeling Prototyping Production-Ready Design Research and Development Collaboration Communication Project Management

About Uplift Desk

"Our mission at UPLIFT Desk is simple: We're here to provide the best selection of beautiful, functional, sustainable, and affordable standing desks and ergonomic office furniture. We help you work better and live healthier." – Jon Paulsen, MS. CPE UPLIFT Desk Founder & CEO We continuously add new products and improve existing designs. We focus on desk customization options selectable in our online desk configurator. It's why we're Wirecutter's standing desk pick five years running (2019-2024). We believe that office furniture should be guaranteed for a minimum of 15 years. The short lifespan of "fast" furniture is not sustainable and isn't good for the planet. Plain and simple: it's not what we do. UPLIFT Desk products are designed and built to last, and our customer support and warranty teams are eager to help make sure that happens. As both the manufacturer and the retailer, our direct-to-consumer approach eliminates middleman dealers that add cost and can complicate or delay or

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