Your Impact
The primary purpose of the Industrial Designer role is to help our customers solve problems and fulfill dreams for the home. As a member of the design team, you will create proprietary designs and visual elements through sketches and 3D modeling, develop prototypes, and assist in market research, customer-focused analysis and product development, while ensuring the designs align with the brand and design strategy, meet business requirements, are functional and aesthetically pleasing.
What You Will Do
- Conduct in-depth market and customer research to identify and deliver on-trend product designs that solve problems and meet our customer's needs.
- Lead small industrial design projects and supports senior industrial designers on project work.
- Design and present customer centric products that meet market trends to align with Lowe's business strategy to stakeholders.
- Support senior designers by exploring innovation and ideating on new concepts.
- Engage in prototyping, evaluation, testing, and works with vendors to refine prototypes to ensure targeted solution set is desirable and feasible.
- Create effective 2D control drawing, 3D CAD and tech pack that directs manufacturing vendors to correctly produce designs.
- Drive an iterative approach to prototyping, evaluation, testing, and refinement to ensure targeted solution set is desirable, feasible, and viable.
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging materials, technologies, and competitors
- Create insights about new design solutions and shares the details with senior designers to ensure product designs are meeting or exceeding industry expectations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional internal and external product teams to ensure design vision, intent, and engagement is maintained.
- Attend design meetings and provides design input and feedback on product and projects.
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Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in industrial design or a related field (e.g., Product Design, Human-Centered Design).
- 3+ years' experience in industrial design or product design environment
- 2+ years' experience leading product design and development programs
- Experience prototyping products to varying levels of complexity.
- Experience designing mass market consumer products preferably in high volume production.
- Experience in industrial design software with proficiency in relevant sketching, modeling and rendering software (Adobe Creative Suite, Solidworks, Keyshot)
- Experience with demonstrated success leading progressively more complex product design programs from concept through production.
Preferred Skills/Education
- Experience with demonstrated success in leading multiple product design programs from concept through production.
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.