Staff Industrial Designer

The role

This Staff Industrial Designer will shape products, experiences, and visual language for power electronics. You will work across physical product design, product UX, visual communication, and brand.

What you will do

• Drive industrial design efforts from early architecture through production.
• Work with engineering teams to turn technical constraints into product solutions.
• Explore product architecture, form, materials, finishes, and manufacturing processes.
• Build concepts using sketches, CAD, physical prototypes, renderings, and animations.
• Define physical interactions including installation, operation, service, and safety.
• Contribute to digital product UX where physical and digital experiences intersect.
• Develop visual communication for complex technical ideas through diagrams and documentation.
• Extend and evolve the company visual identity across products and communications.
• Establish design systems and principles for the product family.
• Advocate for the user while balancing engineering, manufacturing, and business requirements.

Required qualifications

• Significant professional experience designing and shipping physical products.
• Portfolio demonstrating industrial design thinking, craft, and breadth across disciplines.
• Strong industrial design fundamentals including form, proportion, architecture, CMF, and ergonomics.
• Strong 3D skills in CAD, rendering, prototyping, and physical models.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams within technical and manufacturing constraints.
• Strong graphic and visual communication skills including layout, typography, and diagrams.
• Ability to make complex technical information understandable through design.
• Experience thinking about products as complete experiences including interaction and service.
• Ability to independently frame ambiguous problems and drive work with limited direction.
• Low ego, high curiosity, strong internal drive, and enthusiasm for collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience designing industrial equipment, energy products, robotics, vehicles, or electronics.
• Experience with UX or interaction design for hardware, embedded interfaces, or technical systems.
• Experience developing or evolving visual identities and brand systems.
• Experience with product graphics, labeling, wayfinding, or exhibition design.
• Experience working in a startup or environment requiring both strategy and hands-on execution.
• An interest in electricity, energy systems, manufacturing, and physical infrastructure.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity

About the company

Heron Power Electronics is a company building cutting-edge power electronics products for the 21st-century grid. They aim to accelerate the sustainable electrification of everything through scalable hardware solutions.