Lead Industrial Designer
Lead Industrial Designer at Samsung Research America creates future hardware concepts for wearables and devices, integrating AI into the design process to accelerate ideation, rendering, and storytelling while collaborating globally.
- Compensation
- $198.1K–$272.5K / yr
- Location
- 201 Spear Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Transportation Design, or equivalent
- 10+ years of professional Industrial Design experience with outstanding portfolio
- Strong portfolio showcasing AI-assisted concept development and storytelling
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly explore design spaces using AI while applying design judgment
- Outstanding sketching, 3D visualization, physical mockup development, and attention to detail
- Proven ability to independently lead complex design projects from ambiguous opportunities to finished concepts
- Clear communication and storytelling skills for global, multidisciplinary collaboration
Nice to have
- Experience bringing consumer products to market through manufacturing
Full description
Team Summary:
Samsung Design Innovation Center is one of the leading overseas design studios in Samsung, located in San Francisco, CA. Our mission is to understand people and lifestyles to deliver meaningful experiences through beautiful yet functional design, enabled by innovative cutting-edge technologies.
SDIC is working on various advanced product experiences which can envision and shape the future of Samsung Business, working with various internal teams through an experience-driven approach. Our work appears on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, wearables, home appliances, and other devices we can't describe yet.
See some of our work at:
We design future experience-driven innovation opportunities with empathy and compassion for people across the Samsung Electronics portfolio. We uncover unmet and latent user needs through human-centered research and transform emerging technologies into meaningful product experiences that define future product categories.
We are looking for talented designers, strategists, researchers, and creative technologists to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product design—from identifying unmet needs and discovering new design opportunities to developing visionary concepts and creatively applying emerging technologies to solve real user problems and create radically new experiences.
Position Summary:
Samsung Design Innovation Center is seeking a highly experienced Lead Industrial Designer to envision and shape the next generation of consumer products across Samsung's expanding device portfolio, with a particular focus on emerging product categories including wearable devices and future hardware experiences.
This role goes beyond traditional Industrial Design. We are looking for an exceptional designer who embraces Artificial Intelligence as a fundamental part of the creative process and demonstrates how AI can amplify creativity, accelerate exploration, and redefine the way products are conceived, visualized, and communicated.
You will define what AI-native Industrial Design looks like within Samsung, establishing new creative workflows that enhance design quality, accelerate concept generation, and influence how future products are imagined across the organization. Working alongside multidisciplinary teams at SDIC and Industrial Design teams in Korea, you will demonstrate how AI can become a true creative partner throughout the entire design process—from opportunity discovery and ideation through concept development, storytelling, visualization, and iterative refinement.
The ideal candidate combines exceptional industrial design fundamentals with deep curiosity for emerging AI-native design methodologies. They are capable of independently leading projects from early opportunity identification through concept development, storytelling, visualization, and prototype creation while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams throughout Samsung's global organization.