Gantri
Lead Industrial Designer
San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 96 days ago
Design SystemsAccessibilitySolidWorksFusion 360CommunicationMentoring
About the role
- We manufacture at our Digital Factory in California on-demand at industrial-scale efficiency and ship directly to the end customer.
- This is a hands-on, systems-oriented role for a designer who excels at abstraction, standardization, and scalability.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Strong systems thinking with a track record of balancing consistency and flexibility at scale.
- 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.
- Demonstrated ability to create and maintain cohesive product ecosystems across categories.
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Gantri's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.