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fuseproject is a San Francisco and New York based Industrial Design and Brand Strategy firm working across a wide array of disciplines as diverse as personal care, fashion, sports, cosmetics, furniture, technology and transportation.
fuseproject's approach combines the application of new technologies and unique functions with a humanistic perspective. Our designs and creative positioning contributes to areas as diverse as technology, furniture, sports, lifestyle and fashion, for clients such as Herman Miller, MINI, Puma, Cassina, Google, Swarovski, Birkenstock, Toshiba, Sony, One Laptop Per Child, Target, Magis and Coca Cola.
Lots of great information about fuseproject can be found on our web-site … while there will be no pop quiz, you should certainly take a peek if you care to apply.
Industrial Design Intern: San Francisco and New York Offices
The Industrial Design intern's role is primarily to support all areas of design with specific tasks including; document layout and production, research (with image gathering), preparation for presentations.>>
The Industrial Design intern's role is primarily to support all areas of design with specific tasks including; document layout and production, research (with image gathering), preparation for presentations.
Essential Functional duties (most important parts of job): Include such activities as supporting the general needs of the industrial design department, providing backup to all levels of designers (from junior designer to creative director), developing and seeing through design from concept to final deliverables, working with entire industrial design staff on projects and seeking out feedback whenever possible.
Required skills/Experience:
- Senior level industrial design student or recent graduate.
- Excellent at hand sketching, model making and functional mock-ups.
- Working knowledge of 3D software (such as Alias, Solidworks or Rhino).
- Working knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Willingness to take direction and learn from others.
- Great positive attitude with an emphasis on self-motivation and a high quality of work.
- Multilingual skills are a plus.
email: jobs@fuseproject.com with your resume <<
Graphic Design Intern: San Francisco Office
The graphic design intern's role is to support all areas of design with specific tasks including; document layout and production, research (with image gathering), preparation for presentations.>>
Essential Functional duties (most important parts of job): Include such activities as supporting the general needs of the graphic design department, providing backup to all levels of designers (from junior designer to creative director), developing and seeing through design from concept to final deliverables, working with entire graphic design staff on projects and seeking out feedback whenever possible.
Required skills/Experience:
- Must be a junior or senior level graphic design student at a credible school
- Working knowledge of basic graphic design tools and process
- Working knowledge of Adobe's Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, web applications a plus
- Willingness to support all levels of the design staff (ID, graphic design and engineering)
- Great positive attitude with an emphasis on self-motivation and quality of work
- Great communication skills
email: jobs@fuseproject.com with your resume <<
Strategy Intern: San Francisco Office
We are currently seeking creative, design-minded Strategy Interns to help us answer the questions of “what and why” before budgets are committed to development and engineering and marketing plans are established. The Strategy Intern will be a fully engaged member of our growing strategy team that helps clients solve critical business challenges, framed by customer insights, competitive advantage, product and brand positioning, and breakthrough thinking.>>
The intern's role within strategy team is primarily to support all areas of design with specific tasks including; document layout and production, research (with image gathering), preparation for presentations.
Responsibilities of the successful candidate include:
- Working directly with strategists, designers and other team members to identify and clarify relevant client business and competitive issues
- Conducting, analyzing, and synthesizing primary and secondary research as a means to develop an actionable point of view for our clients.
- Working with teams of industrial designers, engineers, and graphic designers on the creative product and brand development process within tight timeframes
- Actively participating in creative activities to turn business, customer, and competitive insights into breakthrough new product & brand innovations
- Supporting strategy team members in the development of client-facing presentation documents. (image finding, writing, creating diagrams or other visual materials)
Required skills/Experience:
- High school diploma or equivalent, with college-level coursework in design (ID, graphics, architecture), marketing, business, or other related field highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of, interest in and passion for design
- Organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented
- Demonstrated skill in verbal and visual communications, with a particular emphasis on visual storytelling; strong information design sense is a definite plus
- Analytically-minded, with a the desire and capability to tackle large, complex problems and distill them down to their essence.
- Ability to manage tasks on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with Microsoft PowerPoint, facility with Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and other creative softwares highly desirable.
email: jobs@fuseproject.com with your resume <<
Graphic Designer: San Francisco Office
Candidates must possess outstanding design skills (logo/identity creation, layout, Photoshop, etc) and the desire to work on a wide range of projects in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio. If you have world-class talent, passion and a desire to work on a wide range of products in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio, we’d like to meet you.>>
Candidates must possess outstanding design skills (logo/identity creation, layout, Photoshop, etc) and the desire to work on a wide range of projects in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio. If you have world-class talent, passion and a desire to work on a wide range of products in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio, we’d like to meet you.
Required skills/Experience:
- 4+ years of experience
- Previous agency experience
- University level degree in Graphic Design
- Ability to speak about your work with fellow team
- High degree of proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite
- Sensitivity to international consumers and markets
- Package design experience a plus
- Willingness to take direction and learn form others
- Passionate thinker about consumer behavior
- multilingual skills a benefit
email: jobs@fuseproject.com with your resume <<
Senior Graphic Designer: San Francisco Office
Senior Graphic Designers are responsible for carrying a project from kickoff through completion. In addition to great design skills (logo/identity creation, layout, Photoshop, etc), candidates should have great internal and client-facing communication skills. If you have world-class talent, passion and a desire to work on a wide range of products in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio, we’d like to meet you.>>
Senior Graphic Designers are responsible for carrying a project from kickoff through completion. In addition to great design skills (logo/identity creation, layout, Photoshop, etc), candidates should have great internal and client-facing communication skills. If you have world-class talent, passion and a desire to work on a wide range of products in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio, we’d like to meet you.
Required skills/Experience:
- 7+ years of experience
- Previous agency experience
- University level degree in Graphic Design
- Great client skills and comfortable with presentations
- High degree of proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
- Ability to lead a design team and move programs forward
- Sensitivity to international consumers and markets
- Proven experience supervising print vendors
- Package design experience a plus
- Willingness to both take and give direction
- Passionate thinker about consumer behavior
email: jobs@fuseproject.com with your resume <<
Senior Industrial Designer: San Francisco Office
Senior Industrial Designers are responsible for carrying a project from kickoff through completion. In addition to great design skills (research, sketching, form/detail development and CAD modeling/rendering), candidates should have great internal and client-facing communication skills. If you have world-class talent, passion and a desire to work on a wide range of products in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio, we’d like to meet you.>>
Senior Industrial Designers are responsible for carrying a project from kickoff through completion. In addition to great design skills (research, sketching, form/detail development and CAD modeling/rendering), candidates should have great internal and client-facing communication skills. If you have world-class talent, passion and a desire to work on a wide range of products in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio, we’d like to meet you.
Required skills/Experience:
- 4+ years of professional experience
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Product Design
- Proficient in 3D software (such as Alias, Solidworks or Rhino)
- Ability to lead a design team and move programs forward
- Sensitivity to international consumers and markets (international travel or residency a plus)
- High degree of proficiency in Illustrator and Photoshop
- Excellent at hand sketching, model making and mock-ups
- Understanding of materials, plastic and metal production processes, quality control and other techniques for manufacturing.
- Passionate thinker about consumer behavior
- Proven experience engaging with overseas vendors, toolers, and model-shops
email: jobs@fuseproject.com with your resume <<
Senior Program Manager: San Francisco Office
We're looking to build our Client Services team with an experienced Senior Program Manager. The person we're seeking will possess first hand understanding that as a consulting firm, our clients and our team members are the source of our success. All Program Managers manage client programs (big surprise!) from inception through completion. Program Managers are the primary client contact throughout the life of the project. >>
We're looking to build our Client Services team with an experienced Senior Program Manager. The person we're seeking will possess first hand understanding that as a consulting firm, our clients and our team members are the source of our success. All Program Managers manage client programs (big surprise!) from inception through completion. Program Managers are the primary client contact throughout the life of the project.
Program Managers are the one-stop-shop for all information about their programs in the day to day, there will almost certainly be pop quizzes.
Responsibilities of the successful candidate include:
- Working to manage a smooth project start
- Negotiating scope with clients (with strong involvement from the Managing Partner)
- Coordinating design staff activities
- Representing clients internally
- Creating and managing schedules & deliverables
- Coordinating contractors as needed
- Fostering team morale
- Negotiating with creative leads for resource planning and allocation
- Budget control, cost analysis & communicating such details to the Managing Partner
- Account / Program growth and business development
Required skills/Experience:
- fuseproject prizes expression and skills as a means to do great design for our clients over all else, so don’t be shy about contacting us if your CV is somewhat unusual…as long as you’ve got the following:
- 5 Years of program management experience in a design agency environment (please, don't apply for this post without meeting this requirement)
- Strong understanding of the design process
- Strong critical thinking and verbal abilities
- Amazing (yes, amazing) client & communication skills
- Extra points for:
- Specific experience in an Industrial Design / Product Development consulting environment
- Ability to levitate
- Desire to change the world
- Unusual hobbies
email: jobs@fuseproject.com with your resume <<