Design Lead (Furniture Design)

Job Description

Position: Design Lead (Furniture Design)
Location: Bangalore, India or Singapore

Primary Responsibilities:
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Designer, you'll take the lead as you…

• Develop big ideas, concepts and designs that achieve overall product strategy, brand identity, business strategy & work with a team to create exclusive, owned-brand merchandise (Furniture for the Residential market)
• Gather market data on key trends considering such elements as fabrication, materials, color schemes and designs & Identify ideas to be developed.
• Collaborate with Technical Development and Sourcing teams to ensure designs manufacturability. Uses artistic ability to edit and make changes to original designs that integrates key partner feedback
• Actively participate in project analysis to facilitate continuous process improvements.

Required Qualification/s & Experience:
• Degree in Design, specialization in Furniture design or equivalent experience.
• 5-9 years experience in furniture design and product development processes. Proven design expertise in a given category
• Design Skills, Creative and Inspirational thinker, Deadline driven.
• Demonstrated high taste level and creative ability and market knowledge. Ability to research and apply market/trend information
• English speaking

Behavioral Competencies:
• Should be self motivated along with being a source of inspiration for the team.
• Good communication, presentation, and organizational skills
• Strategic thinking and problem solving ability
• Team player

Contact:
kasturi.c@designonlinesolutions.com

About the company

Design Online Solutions PTE is a newly set up Singapore based well-funded, corporate backed, ecommerce start up in the home design and décor space. It is an online store that will aim to provide inspiring home interior design products. Design Online Solutions was founded in Singapore in July 2012 .Promoters are founders of one of the top rated design firms in the world (Space Matrix) with a focus on India and South East Asia, which has a $120M+ annual revenue

With our in-house design team and network of external interior, furniture and product design consultants we aim to ensure our customers have access to the best of products designed keeping in mind global and regional trends. From concept to delivery and installation, we take complete responsibility.

The official brand launch is targeted for the second quarter of 2013 in India followed by other parts of Asia and Australia