Industrial Designer

Fresco North - Marlborough, MA USA

Fresco seeks an industrial designer passionate about solving complex design challenges both through hands-on, physical exploration, and virtually in CAD. Fresco iterates and prototypes daily, so you will be able to quickly realize, test, nurture, and evolve your ideas.

In this role, you will be joining a small, but expert team of makers and doers. You will be expected to bring forward creative and unique design solutions through sketching and concepting, physical mock-ups, and rapid prototypes.

You will be supported by, and collaborate with, our team of industrial designers, 3D visualization artists, and design engineers. We pool our expertise to deliver our clients the highest quality design outcomes.

Fresco specializes in challenging design problems, so you can expect to solve for ergonomic design considerations, unique form factors, complex assemblies, and soft and hard goods integrations.

Fresco is a small team, so when the need arises, we all come together to get the job done. You will be expected to be an active participant in the success of Fresco, which means having an attitude of “I can do this” and a willingness to take on tasks outside of your area of expertise to help the team meet their goal.

This is a client-facing role. You will share your designs and ideas and receive feedback in online/in-person client presentations.

Responsibilities / Qualifications

  • 4-8 years of professional industrial design experience in a fast-paced environment of high output. A mixed experience of corporate and consulting work is highly desirable.

  • Ability to work collaboratively with our internal team of designers and/or client-side design, engineering, marketing, and manufacturing teams.

  • Active participation in the creative process, design reviews, and model shop output.

  • Demonstrable experience in product design including all or some of the following: embedded electronics, consumer products, integration of hard and soft goods, automotive, and apparel.

  • Rapid visualization skills using 2D sketching (as presentation assets, live whiteboards, and digital sketching/markup in screen-sharing sessions).

  • Proficient in Rhino, Solidworks, and 3D slicing software.

  • Experience or interest in supporting manufacturing vendor relationships for clients.

  • Familiarity or interest in learning modelmaking processes, such as CNC, 3D printing (SLA and FDM), metals, painting and finishing, soft goods, etc.

  • Excellent written and visual communication and documentation skills, which will be applied daily for internal project logs and communication for client updates.

  • Responsibility and accountability to work in a fast-paced environment with actively well-managed productivity, efficiency, and deadlines.

  • A love of learning and an open mind towards new design processes and tools, new markets, industries, cultures, etc.

  • Spanish language skills are a plus, but not required.

  • This role may require travel.

Education requirement

Degree in a relevant design field or equivalent experience.

Location

Fresco North – Marlborough, MA USA

This is a 100% on-site position.

Fresco culture

Fresco is a collaborative and fail-safe work environment. We value a strong work ethic and design excellence. We combine hands-on working sessions with asynchronous team communication to keep Fresco North and Fresco South studios in-synch and connected in the creative process.

We offer

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package

  • Great team and client culture

  • Diverse and open-minded work environment

  • Excellent work-life balance

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Applicants must have valid work permit in the USA.

Please send your resume and portfolio to and tell us why you're a great fit for this role.

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