SENIOR DESIGNER

Inspired by an excited community with a never ending flow of great ideas and driven by an amazing team & infrastructure, Quirky brings one great new product to life EACH WEEK.

Scared? This job probably isn’t for you. Intrigued? Read on.

If you’re a perfect Quirky person you have a bias-for-action, an innate ability to ‘Get Sh** Done’ and are as honest as the day is long. You say what you think even it is controversial and you strive to do what’s right, not what’s easy. You have extremely high professional standards while being able to create a fun, collaborative environment.

In order to ensure exceptionally high product and design quality as we grow, we’re looking for a top notch Senior Industrial Designer with varied experience in Consumer Products.

The perfect candidate has 5+ years of experience designing successful to-market products. They can take a product from sketch to manufacturing. They are hell-bent on taking part in creating an amazing design culture at an ambitious start-up. They are very comfortable explaining their design process to others in the team… and to the cameras! We have an aggressive filming culture at Quirky and you could end up on anything from in-house process videos to televised footage….

General responsibilities:

 
– Inspire your fellow designers every day; push forward the design culture and broader company culture;

 
– Help evaluate a weekly influx of new product and design ideas; 
– Help provide design direction for products;

 
– Be deeply involved in creating a maintainable brand tie between dozens of unrelated products;

 
– Work with partners / internal teams on manufacturing;

- Manage a demanding design and production schedule

Specific Skills 
– Strong communicator & team leader; 
– Respect & belief in a rapidly iterative design process;

 
– 5+ years of experience in an Industrial Design (consultancy or brand);

 
– Strong sketching abilities (hand and digital); 
– Advanced SolidWorks modeling skills;

 
– Advanced skill level with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop; 
– Familiarity with Hypershot;

 
– Good creative problem solving and analytical thinking skills;

 
– Ability to work independently as well as under tight creative direction.

We’re looking for a resume & portfolio. Submissions without a portfolio (linked or attached) will be overlooked. We’re hiring you for a creative job, so be creative with your submission. IMPORTANT: e-mail subject title MUST be ‘senior designer’. E-mail: seniordesigner@quirky.com.

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MID-LEVEL DESIGNER

Are you into making cool stuff? Do you get excited about the chance of giving countless armchair visionaries the chance at seeing their product become real? Can you even fathom the pace of working on a brand new product every week? Scared? This job probably isn’t for you. Intrigued? Read on.

Quirky.com is an exciting and fast paced workplace for passionate and talented people. If you’re a perfect Quirky person you have a bias-for-action, an innate ability to ‘Get Sh** Done’ and are as honest as the day is long. You say what you think even it is controversial and you strive to do what’s right, not what’s easy.

Our aim is to become a leader in design and are currently seeking a Mid-level Industrial Designer to join our team. A kick-ass freehand sketch portfolio, an engaging and quirky personality, and love of crazy product ideas are our 3 must haves. Outside of that we’re looking for the following specific skills:

- At least 3 years of experience in Industrial Design

- Strong sketching abilities (hand and digital)

- Advanced Solidworks skills in product design

- Advanced skill level with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

- Solid skills with Bunkspeed Shot rendering program

- Good creative problem solving and analytical thinking skills

- Ability to work independently as well as under tight creative direction

- A good knowledge of plastics manufacturing

- Willingness to learn

- Ability to ‘Get Sh** Done’ and have strong bias-for-action

We’re looking for a resume & portfolio. Submissions without a portfolio (linked or attached) will be overlooked. We’re hiring you for a creative job, so be creative with your submission. Oh yeah, please put ‘mid level designer’ in the e-mail subject line. E-mail: designer@quirky.com

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Tune into UStream tomorrow at 9:30 AM (EST) for some live streams of a typical Friday morning in the Model Shop. We’ll be doing some cool stuff — prototyping, sketching, “berthing” products — and we wanna let you in on all the fun.

Join us now!

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What Inspires Me

My industrial design professor, Jong S. Lim

The happiness of my family

The beauty in nature

Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

Watching Hayao Miyazaki’s films

Everything I encounter, even the most random things

A good cup of coffee

Being around people who appreciate art & design

My jewelry/metals instructor, Eun Yeong Jeong

Abstract architecture

It’s hard not to be creatively invigorated in an ever-evolving world. And perhaps no New York museum exhibit encompasses that more than MoMa’s upcoming Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, which opens in September.

The exhibit will showcase a complete 1920′s “Frankfurt Kitchen,” among other design goodies, and promises to reveal more than just futuristic aesthetic appeal. MoMa notes:

“Kitchens have continued to articulate, and at times actively challenge, our relationship to the food we eat, popular attitudes toward the domestic role of women, family life, consumerism, and even political ideology…”

L magazine then collected five additional items with the same transforming qualities. Trust me, you ain’t never seen tea and coffee sets like this one.

Like with all design innovation (or any other kind for that matter), there’s always something new to discover and explore. Our designers let themselves be influenced by the past while creating for the future. There’s no such thing as inspiration overload here at Quirky!

Hello Quirks!

My name is Gaz and I have just had the pleasure of joining the Quirky design team. I hail from the fair country of England and grew up among the sheep and cows of a little town called Malvern. Wooden sports cars and the spring water the Queen drinks originate there, along with my good self…

I’ve been working as a designer in NYC for close to a decade now, and can’t wait to get stuck in helping to shape our Industrial Design capabilities. I am working with a skilled team of designers here and along with Bertha and the amazing Quirky staff I know we are going to go to great places. We’ll also be constantly investigating ways to get you guys involved in the design process too, so watch this space!

Fun facts about me:

Won the Design and Technology prize at Primary school two years in a row, ages 9 and 10

Played Cello (badly) in a Manhattan-based Community Orchestra a few years ago, need to start practicing again though… :-0

Got bitten on the face by my previous boss’s Pitbull, needing 35 stitches… not that fun really

Outside of work I am a full-time janitor (on my own ramshackle house which I share with my wife and two cats)

For more, visit: http://www.brokenoff.com/

As you probably know, I am not a designer or engineer, operations is more my jam, but throughout my experience working at Quirky and being surrounded by so many awesome products that we make ourselves, it is quite inspiring to see what the MoMa sells.

Here are some of my favorite MoMa products that I use daily:

Muji Calculator – it’s beautiful and functional!

Daily Cereal Bowl – high rim keeps me from spilling milk on my computer! (yes, that happened before I started eating out of this bowl)

Nesting Bowls – Awesome cooking bowls and cups. They store compactly inside one another!

I won’t bore you by showing you my entire MoMa collection but I will mention that every time I walk around the store, aside from being tempted to buy more, I wonder when (not if) one of Quirky’s products will hit the shelves at MoMa.

We KNOW we will get there.

So Quirks, do you think our MoMa-worthy product has already been made, or is it yet to come?