Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Industrial Designer to lead the technical design of Wild's product portfolio, including refillable cases and new product categories. This role involves collaborating with manufacturers to create products, shaping the internal design discipline, and ensuring design for manufacture, cost feasibility, and technical robustness are aligned from brief to production.

Responsibilities

• Develop 3D pack architecture and produce detailed, manufacturer-ready CAD models and technical drawings.
• Own tolerancing, GD&T, draft angles, wall thicknesses, and other DFM parameters across the product range.
• Build functional and visual prototypes for research, validation, and internal sign-off.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date design documentation, tech packs, and specs throughout the product lifecycle.
• Support the briefing process, collaborating with and guiding the design delivery of external engineering and simulation agencies.
• Assess manufacturing routes, tooling, and materials with quality, cost, and sustainability in mind.
• Work directly with suppliers and manufacturers on feasibility, ensuring design intent survives the journey from concept to shelf.
• Lead tooling kick-off and manage the relationship with manufacturers through to production-ready tech packs.
• Optimize packaging for logistics efficiency and support cost-down initiatives without compromising quality.
• Validate pre-production samples and sign off on gold samples against technical specifications.
• Troubleshoot quality issues as they arise, working with suppliers to find practical, lasting solutions.
• Continuously look for opportunities to improve manufacturability, sustainability, and cost within both new and existing products.
• Identify and evaluate materials and finishes against manufacturability, durability, and sustainability criteria.
• Ensure material and finish choices are technically sound and consistent across the product range.
• Support structural concept development from brief, translating ideas into technically feasible product designs.
• Stay close to emerging trends in materials and manufacturing to bring fresh technical thinking to the product pipeline.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in industrial or product design, with a strong emphasis on design for manufacture, ideally within personal care, consumer goods, or packaging.
• Strong proficiency in 3D CAD software and demonstrable ability to produce and interrogate detailed technical drawings, tolerancing, and GD&T.
• A thorough understanding of design for manufacture, including achievable outcomes, cost implications, and quality constraints.
• Hands-on experience working directly with external manufacturers and suppliers, from feasibility conversations through to production sign-off and tooling.
• A portfolio demonstrating technical rigor: CAD output, tech packs, tolerancing, and manufacturing outcomes, alongside a solid but secondary grounding in concept sketching and CMF.
• Working knowledge of materials and manufacturing processes relevant to packaging (injection moulding, tooling, finishing) and their cost and sustainability trade-offs.
• Comfortable with KeyShot, Solidworks, or similar for technical visualization.
• A self-starter mentality, confident operating independently and building process.
• Ambition to grow and help shape the design function over time.
• Willingness to travel overseas for manufacturer collaboration.

Skills

• Design for Manufacture
• 3D CAD Software
• Technical Drawings
• Tolerancing
• GD&T
• KeyShot
• Solidworks
• Materials Evaluation
• Manufacturing Processes
• CMF (Color, Material, Finish)

Location

• London, UK (Hybrid)

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• 25 days holidays + bank holidays
• 9 extra remote working days
• Enhanced maternity, paternity & parental leave
• 4% Company Pension
• Mental well-being support through Spill
• Private healthcare through Vitality
• Weekly early finishes
• Social events
• Annual L&D budget
• Free breakfast
• Free & discounted Wild products
• 2 x team volunteering days
• 2 x personal volunteering days

About the Company

• Wild is a high-growth company on a mission to remove single-use plastic from the bathroom with refillable, natural products.
• Founded in 2020, Wild is one of Europe's fastest-growing start-ups.

Equal Opportunity

• At Wild, we know that diversity drives innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating and maintaining a workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to bring their most authentic selves to work.
• We recognise that diversity goes beyond visible differences such as race, gender, age, and ethnicity, and encompasses a broad spectrum of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
• We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
• If we can make any adjustments to help you to perform your best in the process, please let us know!