Industrial Design Researcher
Industrial Design Researcher
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Job Title: Industrial Design Researcher
Lifetime Products located in Clearfield Utah designs and manufactures consumer products for major retailers around the world including Sporting Goods Lawn & Garden Water Sports Play Sets and Tables & Chairs.
We are seeking a talented and passionate Industrial Design Researcher to join our research and development team. As an integral part of our design process you will be responsible for conducting indepth user research to inform and inspire our product development. If you have a keen eye for hard goods design a curiosity for user behavior and a knack for translating insights into physical innovative solutions we have an amazing opportunity for you.
What Youll Do:
- Lead InsightDriven Design: Use a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods to uncover meaningful insights about customer needs behaviors and pain points ensuring the products we develop align with realworld consumer expectations.
- Develop Research Strategies: Create detailed research plans tailored to various product categories including methods such as user testing contextual inquiries field studies and market trend analysis to capture actionable data.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with industrial designers engineers and product managers providing researchbacked recommendations that influence design decisions and enhance the functionality usability and aesthetic appeal of our products.
- Translate Data into Design Directions: Synthesize research findings into clear actionable insights that inform product design strategy ensuring that user needs are met in innovative and effective ways.
- Test and Iterate: Lead usability testing sessions gather direct feedback from endusers and work with teams to iterate on designs based on findings ensuring continuous improvement throughout the design lifecycle.
- Foster UserCentered Design Practices: Advocate for a userfirst approach by embedding research at every stage of product developmentfrom ideation to final prototypeensuring that our designs resonate with our target consumers.
- Explore Emerging Trends: Stay on the pulse of design technology and consumer trends in the industry helping to identify new opportunities for innovation and product differentiation.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Industrial Design.
- Proven experience in industrial design research with a strong design research portfolio showcasing successful projects in the consumer goods sector.
- Proficiency in qualitative research methods such as user interviews ethnography and usability testing and a deep understanding of user behavior.
- Strong analytical problemsolving and communication skills with the ability to present research findings clearly to stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a crossfunctional team environment and thrive in a fastpaced innovative setting.
- Familiarity with design thinking usercentered design principles and emerging technologies.
- Confident with expressing concepts through sketching modeling and AI methods.
- Passion for new product development and creating products that positively impact users lives.
- High attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
Benefits:
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401K
- Paid Time Off
- Profit Sharing
- OnSite Gym
- OnSite Health Clinic
- Tuition Assistance available after 90 days
If you are passionate about leveraging user research to shape the future of consumer goods and thrive in a collaborative fastpaced environment we invite you to apply!
Lifetime Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Employment Type
Full-Time
