Product Designer / Architect

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

Complete product knowledge of existing IWM products before working on new developments, with an awareness of competitors and their products.

Preparing reports on trends of specific product development. This is all very necessary before creating new concepts for development.

Modification of current designs as per feedback of Sales, Product, Marketing, etc. This requires identifying gaps in the design, analyzing them and rectifying those gaps.

Knowledge of strong and weak areas of particular design elements is essential here.

Knowing and using design related softwares is the key for a contemporary Product Designer along with a good technical know-how.

Auto Cad and IMOS are the two most important softwares for Product Designers at IWM.

Concepts are created on 3DSMAX (or Cinema 4D) and all drawings on Auto Cad.

Detailed drawings, Bill of Materials, Cutting Lists, and Quality Parameters are all provided by the R&D Product Designers.

Communication and coordination with other departments is a crucial part of development.

Product Designers are required to work with Technical, Purchase, Product, Design, Production and costing for the development of every product.

They also work with the Commercial department for the sourcing of imported items and products.

When a product is finished, the designers along with the Visual Merchandisers workout the layouts of every showroom to find a specific suitable place for every product.