Senior Director Of Industrial Design
CurrentPrincipal Accountability:- Provide creative design leadership while working with retail, trade, commercial, and R&D product development teams to formulate strategies for the contribution of industrial design to company profits.- Develop and implement product design program to establish DFC as a design-forward, consumer preferred style leader.- Work with both R&D and NPD research groups, establish and validate process to research retail effects of several product styles on consumer and influencer brand impression of style performance.- Provide design direction by actively working with ID team members and partners on all matters related to product design, including form, function, ergonomics, materials and finish.- Develop direct reports to be active participants and future leaders within the company - Manage contracts and relations with strategic outside partners and maintain established pool of approved suppliers of industrial design services.- Oversee all university partnerships including company sponsored projects and co-op programs- Responsible to investigate and report on longer-term product and design trends affecting our various product categories.- Ensure company intellectual property is protected for projects contributed via design patents and working with legal department.- Develop/document/update SOPs for Delta/Peerless/Brizo brand product brand marking requirements, ID process improvements and other ID related processes as needed.- Coordinate outside design work including sister companies using the Delta/Peerless/Brizo brands.- Act as spokesman representing company and brands to customers, specifiers, end-users, and public in general through public speaking engagements, presentations, interviews, videos, studio tours, etc.…
