Industrial Designer (Full Time Position)

About Huawei Research And Development UK Limited Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have 207,000 employees and operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world. Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

Huawei Research and Development UK Limited Overview Huawei’s vision is a fully connected, intelligent world. To achieve this, we work to inspire passion for basic research around the world. Our combined passion drives development across the global innovation value chain. Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees in research centers around the globe. In the UK, we already have design centers in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and Ipswich.

Job Summary INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER - SMARTPHONES, WEARABLES & ACCESSORIES HUAWEI LONDON DESIGN STUDIO We're a small team designing premium consumer technology. Recent work includes the Mate XT triple-foldable, the Mate 70 RS Ultimate Design and our high-end watches. We're looking for another designer to help shape what comes next.

Key Responsibilities

THE WORK We work across two kinds of projects, and the balance between them is part of what makes this role interesting. Roadmap projects define the shape, aesthetics and materiality of existing product categories, phones, wearables, earbuds and more. Here the technology, segment and launch date are usually already fixed. Our job is to design what the product should stand for, how it should look and why anyone would want it over the alternatives. Innovation projects are more open, helping shape the future of new tech devices. This means understanding cultural and psychological attitudes and trends, working closely with engineers on emerging technologies, and using design intuition to fuse it all into new products and product categories for changing times.

Our ambition is products made in millions that still feel like individual objects. Proportion, surface, colour and finish are central to that thinking from the beginning. We work both as a team, running workshops, sharing references, developing ideas together, and individually, where you'll lead your own projects and need the confidence and drive to take them from research through to detailed models, with support from London colleagues and reviews with our teams in China.

The Team Around seven of us, mostly industrial designers, working alongside teams in China. We share references, discuss proposals, help each other resolve details and eat lunch together. We appreciate people who bring a point of view, listen carefully and can work through a disagreement constructively.

Person Specification

YOU Creative, with a genuine curiosity about the world and how things are made. You follow your intuition and you're passionate about design and technology. Your background might be consumer electronics, accessories, footwear, furniture or automotive. We're interested in how you see things and the quality of what you make. You should be able to develop your own designs in 3D. Excellent use of CATIA or Rhino, the Adobe Suite, and visualisation tools such as Blender or KeyShot.

PRACTICAL DETAILS

The role is an agency contract (Full Time Position), but we are recruiting with a long-term view. Studio-based in London with occasional home working. You need to already be UK-based with the right to work here and be able to commute to the studio. We work in English.