Lead Dog Recruiting is hiring: Industrial Designer in Irvine

Lead Dog Recruiting has partnered with a fast-growing medical device company in Irvine to find a talented and versatile Industrial Designer to join their R&D team. This is a unique opportunity to shape products that improve lives across domestic and global markets—blending softgoods and hardgoods design into seamless, user-focused solutions. You’ll work hands-on with textiles, foams, plastics, and metals, while collaborating with passionate industrial designers, mechanical engineers, marketing, and manufacturing partners to transform bold ideas from sketch to full-scale production.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and present 2D and 3D design concepts for review and iteration
• Design, prototype, and test product concepts, materials, and functionality
• Translate Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) into practical design solutions
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align designs with performance, usability, and manufacturing requirements

Required Qualifications

• Experience with soft goods (e.g., backpacks, luggage, footwear, apparel, or similar sewn/fabricated products)
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design (or related field)
• 6+ years of product design and development experience
• 4+ years managing or leading design projects
• Proficiency in Rhino (2D) and SolidWorks (3D)
• Solid understanding of materials and processes: plastics, foam, cut-and-sew fabrication, and basic metalwork

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to apply your industrial design expertise to meaningful medical devices that impact people’s lives.