Industrial Designer – Senior

Location: Observatory, Cape Town
Salary: R38k – R42k per month

About the Role:
Opportunity available for a Senior Industrial Designer to manage a team at an integrated marketing agency specialising in POS.

Requirements:
5+ years’ experience as Senior Industrial Designer
Relevant Tertiary Qualification
Happy to work on a PC not a MAC
Experienced in creating creative concepts and presenting to clients
Ability to lead and inspire a Design team.
Engaging with Senior Stakeholders (external and internal) and managing expectations.
Competent at explaining ideas to people with varying levels of technical knowledge.
Competent in raster, vector and 3D design tools, including but not limited to; Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, (3D Studio Max, V-Ray preferable but not essential)
Experience with gaming engines would be fantastic (Unreal, etc).
Excellent communication and presentation skills – verbal and visual.
An ability to learn quickly, think fast and deliver solutions.
Excited about embracing new procedures and technologies.
Ability to lead strong using a collaborative approach.
Highly creative and conceptual capabilities.

Duties:
Lead the Design team and manage the day to day running of the Design Studio.
Manage the intake of workload for the Design team and ensure all projects deadlines are met timeously.
Manage projects scopes, timelines and budgets for projects.
Clearly communicate client needs to your team to ensure that output produced meets with agreed briefs.
Build trusting and collaborative relationships with account teams assigned to a brand, ensuring all stakeholders are clearly aligned with design output.
Building relationships with our clients, being able to manage expectations and provide them with services that exceed their expectations.
Industrial designing and client presentations.