Senior Industrial Designer (Plantation, FL Hybrid) ID-13988

May 6, 2025

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

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Department Overview

The Design and Customer Experience (DCX) team is a cross-functional group focused on Human Centered Design and Research that fuels the next generation of experiences and solutions for our mission-critical customers and users. The team consists of Industrial Design, UI/UX, Service Designers, and Researchers who design for diverse and challenging Professional-grade markets. Police, Fire, and Commercial user groups all have very distinct and tangible design problems; whether it’s the dirt, grime, and high noise of industrial environments, gloves and turnout gear for fire, or managing intense cognitive loads during police action. Our team is exploring, testing, and designing for emerging technologies and integrations that will define the next generation of commercial and public solutions. Your designs will help us solve for safer workplaces and communities.

Job Description

About You

Are you compelled to innovate? Do you want your work to have benefit and impact in the most extreme situations? Would you like to be on a highly collaborative team using social sciences and human-centered design to address a global customer base with mission-critical use cases? Do you seek complex challenges and transform them into meaningful designs and critical experiences? Do you embrace a world that is changing faster than ever? Do you seek clarity over ambiguity and address speed with urgency? Does empathy for the user provide you with purpose? Do you desire to build for their needs and wants so that they can be safer and more efficient? Do you know the value of good design? Do you insist on it?

Your Creative Tool Kit:

Must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited industrial design program. A Masters degree is a plus. A senior Industrial Designer is an established and productive professional who works independently and with general supervision. This position requires exceptional interpersonal skills and the capability to collaborate in a team-focused environment. Collaboration and communication skills are critical to communicating designs and outcomes with other leaders and decision-makers in a cross-discipline environment. An ability to appreciate and work with human factors and research to define marketing and user requirements. Sensitivity to culture and end users should complement a strong core knowledge of design. Problems faced are challenging and varied, this role requires the ability to influence others, establishing and defending user-driven and principle-based designs across multiple parallel projects. A senior designer is expected to analyze the problem to uncover the "real" issues about users, context, and environment. Judge concept effectiveness by linking to use cases, user requirements, and research data. Choose the right plan of action based on available information, timing, and resources.

Work Description and Skills

Integrate effectively into a multidisciplinary group that includes cognitive and behavioral scientists, interaction designers, and human factors engineers and deliver to strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Uncover problems and develop them into ideas that become design solutions grounded by end-user requirements providing a solid value proposition.
Collaborate with marketing and engineering to ensure successful implementation of industrial designs.
Understand and communicate a user journey or product value proposition through various media, storyboards, animations, and videos.
Quickly identify and create appropriate design concepts with follow-through to production.
Create world-class hardware designs in a fast-paced environment.
Follow up with manufacturing and production processes as required.

Minimum of 5 years of experience with Industrial Design Hardware
Portfolio highlighting products that have been shipped.

Tech Skills

Strong 2-D visualization skills are necessary such as sketching, Illustrator, and Photoshop software.
A solid expertise in at least one 3-D CAD program, such as Solid Works, Pro E Rhino, or other similar tools is required.
Proficiency in video and animation (Adobe After Effects or similar) for storytelling of user experience or product attributes.

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