Senior Industrial Designer

Eat pizza. Design products. Eat some more pizza. Rinse. Repeat.

**The job**:

- You are going to create the future of outdoor cooking. Your creativity will help us expand the awesome Ooni range within a design led organisation.
- You’ll be instrumental in the product creation and development cycle - you’ll shape the future of our products through thoughtful user centric insight, research, ideation and visualisation.
- You’ll be reporting to the Head of Product Design and work closely with the rest of our Product Development team and championing the product vision You will be working with our Product Managers, Engineers, Modelmakers, Senior management team as well as with external partners around the world.
- You will be the lead designer on multiple projects at any one time. You’ll be involved from end-to-end across multiple projects, from concept through to manufacture and launch.
- You will be a senior voice in shaping the product direction and ensuring that our designs and products are in line with our Ooni DNA.
- You will push the boundaries and innovate.

You will have a wide range of skills. We would love it if you had:
**We Need**:

- Experience in a senior role as a creative Industrial designer with the ability to manage the design process and inspire the team around you.
- Proven experience creating hard good consumer products.
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience working in-house or within a consultancy environment with a great understanding of product design fundamentals.
- Experience taking products from concept to mass manufacture with a broad understanding of common manufacturing processes to inform your design approach.
- Excellent verbal and visual presentation skills.

**We Love**:

- Creative flair that blends beautiful design with carefully thought out details to delight our customers.
- User centric, experience first focus, always.
- Aptitude for creative functional problem-solving with a great eye for product aesthetics.
- Ability and drive to get hands on with prototypes and adapt and react to enhance the product experience.
- Great communication and presentation skills. The ability to communicate effectively with the product and engineering teams and to engage with external suppliers and manufacturers both in the UK and internationally.
- Fluency with Solidworks.
- Keyshot & Adobe creative suite a big plus.

**The Company**:

- Go to YouTube and search “We are Ooni”. That wee video pretty much says it all

**The quick version is**:

- We make epic pizza ovens that cook _awesome _pizza in 60 seconds and we are reshaping the outdoor cooking world
- We’re growing really really fast and have no plans to slow down. In fact we’re the fastest growing company in Scotland according to The Sunday Times Fast Track
- We’ve built a pretty cool office inside a warehouse in Broxburn. There’s a train station nearby or a car park if you prefer. We have 2 staff kitchens and a Nintendo. And a beer kit. And a table tennis table. And cornhole. And Marv the deer. And there are loads of puppies. And possibly a new pet cat since lockdown started.
- We’re now up to 200+ in the whole team. That was 100 this time last year and only 50 the year before that. And they are all AWESOME - our culture is core to our whole reason for being.
- These are our values: Passion, Rigour, Innovation, Ambition and Kindness. We really do live by them and demand them in everything we do. It ain’t just corporate mumbo jumbo to us. See how they’re capitalised to show how important they are?

**Benefits**:

- Salary - based on experience
- £500 every year to spend on your passion - whatever that may be
- Great pizza every single day if you want it. Yep. _Every single day._ And we’ll teach you to become a pizza pro
- Pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, weekly yoga classes.
- 35 days paid holiday per year
- £1000 to spend on Ooni products each year, plus 50% discount on any other Ooni stuff
- Employee Assistance Programme - our people are at the heart of everything we do, so if you’re happy, we’re happy.
- Raising money for charity - we’re all about giving backand having lots of fun in the process

If you have read the above and thought 'wow, that is me' then have a look at our website, look at our 'We Are Ooni' video on YouTube. Read a bit about our values and products and just have a wee Google.

**If you like what you see and you fit the bill, send in**:

- A short cover letter on why you’d like to join Ooni
- PDF portfolio of your most impressive and appropriate work
- CV

We really like nice letters - especially ones that are personalised just for us - so please don’t forget that bit.

By the way, since you’ve been reading this - we’ve just made 2 pizzas. You know you want a slice...