Industrial Designer

Industrial Designer

Department: New Product Development Location: Saint Louis Reports To: Manager of Product and Design

Position Summary

Anova Furnishings is seeking a creative, detail-oriented, and solutions-driven Industrial Designer to help shape the future of our product portfolio. This role will focus on designing scalable, market-driven site furnishing products that strengthen Anova's position across priority vertical markets while improving customer experience, manufacturability, and operational efficiency.

The Industrial Designer will collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and leadership teams to bring innovative concepts from ideation through production. The ideal candidate combines strong aesthetic sensibilities with practical design-for-manufacturing expertise and thrives in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Outcomes and Responsibilities

Product Design

• Develop innovative and scalable product concepts aligned with Anova's strategic growth initiatives.
• Design aesthetically compelling and functional site furnishing solutions that improve customer experience and ease of specification and installation.
• Create sketches, renderings, prototypes, and parametric 3D models to communicate design intent.
• Conduct research into market trends, customer needs, and competitive products to inform design decisions.

Product Development

• Support a disciplined cross-functional product development process from concept through launch.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and engineering teams to optimize designs for production efficiency, quality, and cost.
• Participate in prototype reviews, testing, and design iterations.
• Assist in reducing product development cycle times through organized workflows and effective communication.

Visualization & Storytelling

• Produce high-quality renderings, presentations, and visual assets to support product launches and marketing initiatives.
• Help develop compelling narratives around new products and concepts.
• Support website, sales, and specification channels with accurate and engaging product visuals and collateral.

Manufacturing & Operational Support

• Apply design-for-manufacturing principles throughout the development process.
• Create and maintain product documentation, installation resources, packaging concepts, and support materials.
• Work directly with manufacturing teams to troubleshoot and improve product designs.
• Identify opportunities to simplify production and eliminate waste.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design or related field.
• Strong creative thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively across departments and with external partners.
• Strong analytical and detail-oriented mindset.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Willingness to travel 2–4 times per year.
• Positive attitude, coachability, and self-motivation.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3–5 years of industrial design or product development experience.
• Experience with site furnishings or product manufacturing.
• Proficiency in SolidWorks, KeyShot, Adobe Creative Cloud, and digital sketching tools such as Procreate.
• Experience with 3D rendering and 3D printing.
• Familiarity with project management platforms such as Monday.com, ClickUp, or HubSpot.
• Experience working under Scrum or agile development principles.
• Understanding of Salesforce, Teams, and Zoom.
• Experience conducting Voice of Customer (VOC) research directly with customers.

Desired Skills

• Ability to sketch and render product concepts effectively.
• Strong visualization and storytelling capabilities.
• Active listening and collaboration skills.
• Creativity paired with strong attention to detail.
• Solutions-oriented critical thinking.
• Ability to analyze data and interpret customer or market insights.
• Strong understanding of design aesthetics, ergonomics, and manufacturability.

Core Competencies and Cultural Expectations

At Anova Furnishings, we hire individuals who align with our core values:

• Respect – Treating everyone with dignity and professionalism.
• Continuous Improvement – Eliminating waste and improving systems.
• Growth Through Discomfort – Embracing challenges as opportunities.
• Responsibility & Humility – Owning successes and failures with honesty.
• Positive Attitude – Bringing energy and optimism to the team.

Anova provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Anova complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.