Lead Industrial Designer

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Gantri’s product design systems, including CMF, component libraries, product architecture, category frameworks, and packaging standards.
• Establish clear design constraints, guidelines, and guardrails that enable internal teams and external designers to create within Gantri’s platform.
• Translate Gantri’s brand values—sustainability, craft, and accessibility—into scalable systems rather than one-off product designs.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing to ensure systems are feasible, efficient, and optimized for on-demand production at scale.
• Develop and maintain modular, reusable design frameworks that balance consistency with creative flexibility.
• Collaborate with product and marketing to ensure systems support cohesive storytelling, visual consistency, and category clarity across all outputs.
• Provide direction and feedback to designers using the platform, upholding system integrity and design quality across all products.
• Mentor designers on systems thinking, platform constraints, and scalable design practices.
• Stay at the forefront of materials, CMF, and manufacturing innovation, integrating relevant advancements into Gantri’s evolving design systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industrial design experience, ideally with exposure to platforms, product lines, or design systems in consumer products.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking—e.g., CMF frameworks, component libraries, product families, or scalable design languages, not just individual products.
• Proficiency in CAD tools (e.g., Rhino, SolidWorks, Fusion 360) and rendering software, with the ability to define reusable components and standards, not just final designs.
• Experience partnering with engineering and manufacturing to define constraints, standards, and scalable solutions, rather than only driving single products through production.
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain cohesive product ecosystems across categories.
• Strong systems thinking with a track record of balancing consistency and flexibility at scale.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to codify and evangelize design systems across teams and external partners.
• Knowledge of sustainable design practices, especially as they apply to materials, CMF, and scalable production systems.
• Experience mentoring designers, particularly in systems thinking and platform-based design approaches.
• Passion for building tools, frameworks, and environments that enable other designers to do their best work.

Why Gantri?

• Be part of a company reimagining how design meets manufacturing.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping the building blocks of Gantri products.
• Drive innovation on our next-generation digital manufacturing platform.
• Advance sustainable design practices in real-world production.
• Work in a fast-growing, design-driven environment.
• Bring visionary concepts to life at scale.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off and flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Professional development opportunities and learning stipend
• Collaborative, creative, and sustainability-focused work environment
• Access to Gantri-designed products and innovation initiative